About
Aaron is an international speaker, open source advocate, and outgoing introvert. He has been helping companies create, and bring to market, compelling and competitive product offerings for the last 10 years for brands such as GoDaddy, Newfold Digital, A2Hosting, hosting.com, and now as VP of Product at Monarx. He's been a regular contributor to the WordPress open source project for nearly two decades and applies his knowledge of, and passion for, open source to align companies with those projects to improve their own products and offerings while providing better and more secure open source solutions to their customers.
Sessions & Roundtables
WordPress Under Siege
Executive Roundtables – Block 3: The Frontline — Support Queues and the Most-Targeted Stack
securing the world's most targeted CMS in an era of AI-accelerated exploit development, mass scanning, and six-hour-to-exploit windows.
AI-Powered Supply Chain Attacks
Executive Roundtables – Block 4: Beyond Infrastructure — New Value, New Exposure
defending against the new frontier of threats targeting hosting providers, their software dependencies, and their customers.
AI-Driven Threat Detection in Production
Executive Roundtables – Block 5: AI in Practice — Getting Found, Getting Protected
moving past vendor hype to what actually works in real hosting environments: tooling choices, false-positive realities, staffing models, and integration with existing SOC workflows.