Aaron Campbell
VP Of Product at Monarx
Oklahoma, United States
Summary
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RockstarAaron Campbell is a product leader and open source advocate with 15 years of experience building and bringing competitive hosting and WordPress-focused products to market for companies like GoDaddy, Newfold Digital, and hosting.com, and now serving as VP of Product at Monarx. A long-time WordPress contributor and former WordPress Core Security Team lead, he pairs product strategy with deep technical knowledge of core security and authentication—having contributed TOTP two-factor work used by many WordPress sites. He’s founded and led multiple companies and consulting practices, blending hands-on DevOps and backend engineering with executive product leadership. Known as an outgoing introvert and international speaker, he helps organizations align with open source projects to improve security, developer workflows, and customer offerings. Based in Oklahoma, he also mentors and organizes in the WordPress community, bringing practical experience scaling developer tooling like Varying Vagrant Vagrants. His mix of technical depth, community stewardship, and go-to-market product experience makes him effective at translating open source contributions into commercial advantage.
15 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (15)
wordpress10
user-authentication10
php10
bash10
2factor10
authentication10
vagrant10
mysql10
totp10
npm8
debugging8
svn7
css6
twitter6
wordpress-rest-api6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/two-factor
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
Two-Factor Authentication for WordPress.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the implementation of two-factor authentication features within the WordPress plugin. Their work focused on the Time-Based One-Time Password (TOTP) provider, including the generation of keys, validation of authentication codes, and integration with Google Authenticator. They also addressed coding standards, fixed issues with PHP 32-bit environments, and handled interim logins.
two-factor-authenticationwordpresswordpress-plugintotp2fa
Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV
Oct 2013 - Apr 2014
An open source Vagrant configuration for developing with WordPress
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Aaron's contributions primarily focused on infrastructure and configuration management within the WordPress development environment. They modified the `provision.sh` script to install and configure necessary tools such as `npm`. They also addressed database configuration, specifically setting the MySQL root password, and updated the provisioning script to check for and apply SVN upgrades. These efforts demonstrate a focus on streamlining the development environment and ensuring the software's build process.
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