Julien Melissas is a web developer from Asheville, NC, with a passion for clean, efficient code, and re-doing things until they’re just right. Julien loves to learn about new technologies and development workflows. He has been working with WordPress for 5+ years now and has grown quite fond of it.

Julien is a co-founder and technical director at Craftpeak, a creative agency in Asheville, and is on the Roots development team. Julien loves JavaScript, UX, information architecture, open source, and Pit Bulls. When Julien is not in front of the screen working you can find him making music, cooking, wrenching on a car, or out in the yard gardening with his girlfriend, Hana, and their dogs, Dina and Wilbur.