TEAM
A group of awesome humans
We take pride in our qualified and professional team of creative people who give life to your ideas and present them beautifully online. We are the LightSpeed team.
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Meet our team
We’re a tight, self-motivated and collaborative team of individuals that contribute unique skills to every project we work on. Meet some of the people behind the scenes. Each one of us offers a unique perspective and skill to deliver to your business needs.
We truly believe that we do our best work when we work collaboratively. An experienced team of thinkers, innovators and creators:
Ash Shaw
CEO
Ash steers the business forward and beyond. He’s passionate about WordPress, web design and building awesome user experiences. A networker at heart, he’s been attending WordCamp community events since 2008.
Barbara Kerr
CFO
Barb fills a number of roles at the company, ranging from financial administration to project and client relationship management. She also looks after the team’s wellbeing and all things HR-related.
Warwick Booth
Lead Developer
Warwick is LightSpeed’s lead developer. Apart from building exceptional websites with his coding skills, he is involved in project planning, mentoring his team mates and reviewing their code.
Chris Vancoillie
Systems Engineer
Chris is LightSpeed’s Systems Engineer, Network Architect and Database Administrator. He looks after the 120+ websites that we host, keeping everything running smoothly on our servers and our clients happy.
A committed, caring, and passionate team.
We bring our whole selves and give it our all every day, but don’t take ourselves too seriously. Our entire team works as your team and puts their best efforts to present your brand as innovative, and provide the best digital design that engages your audience quickly. We help you reach your goals while getting maximum returns on investment. Creators of LSX Design theme.
Justin Abrahamse
Developer & Web Designer
Justin is LightSpeed’s frontend developer, focusing on web design to code and user functionality. He also assists with backend development, theme updates and is accomplished on Mailchimp, SEO and SEM platforms.
Adam Wale
Branding & Web Designer
Adam is our web designer with over a decade of experience in creating thoughtful and innovative design solutions. He brings LightSpeed’s client brands to life.
Lourens Visser
Support Happiness Engineer
Lourens has been involved in programming, web design, graphic design, and business environment for 2 decades. He manages our developers, handling support requests, and ensuring an agile and efficient workflow in our team.
Zared Rogers
Web Designer & Theme Developer
Zared creates structured Figma design systems and prototypes, and builds clean, scalable interfaces for complex projects. He brings these designs to life as high-quality WordPress themes, ensuring each project has a solid visual and technical foundation.
Tibi Buzdugan
Frontend & Backend Developer
Tibi is a Full Stack Engineer and Designer with over a decade of experience building scalable websites, SaaS platforms and custom WordPress solutions. His work spans frontend and backend development, UX design and API integrations, creating clean, reliable, and user-friendly digital products.
José Abreu
Web Developer
José is LightSpeed’s WordPress Block Theme & Block Developer, focusing on web design to code and user interface and experience. He also assists with backend development, theme and blocks updates and development, project planning and mentoring interns.
Brandon Marshall
Junior Developer
Brandon is a Junior WordPress Developer at LightSpeed, passionate about thoughtful design, structured workflows, and contributing to reliable, high-quality Wordpress websites and plugins with the team.
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