Patrick Rauland has built custom e-commerce solutions as well as high-end WooCommerce sites while working for advertising agencies. He joined the support team at WooThemes and answered thousands of support tickets. He later joined the WooThemes development team and started writing the underlying code for WooCommerce. After several months on the development team, he took on the role of product manager, and interacts with customers and the development team to help plan the future of WooCommerce. Patrick loves going to conferences to talk about e-commerce, software development, productivity, happiness, and creating your online presence. Patrick lives in Denver, Colorado, and loves running, yoga, and hiking. You can reach Patrick through his programming blog at http://speakinginbytes.com.