Mariano Labollita

Mariano is a Developer, and part of the WordPress Team. He started his love for technology when his father got him a Commodore computer at the age of 5. He has always been curious and enthusiastic about how software was built and decided to get enrolled in a 1-year Visual Basic course at the age of 14. Mariano studied Information Technology at UADE (Universidad Argentina de la Empresa) University in Argentina and holds a professional career of 18+ years in which he has worked as a software developer for several companies and industries, from large Latin America banks (Banco Patagonia) to large retail companies (Duty-Free, Philips, BlackBerry) and the main oil company in Argentina (YPF).

Mariano started his professional career as a backend developer but within the following years, he started learning frontend and gained a love for pixel-perfect techniques. He now feels confident with both, the back and front end. During the last 5 years, he specialized as a WordPress Developer. He has built his own WordPress plugins and likes to develop websites with speed performance in mind.

His superpower is finding elegant solutions to fix bugs. Maybe a random fun fact? He started playing chess at the age of 6 and won several tournaments at that age.