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Principal Software Developer at Alley Interactive, I focus on large media sites. Over the years I’ve worked on NY Post, POLITICO.eu, Vogue, Digiday and others. Previously lead WP dev at HowAboutWe (acquired by Match.com\/OkCupid), and Ninja at WooThemes.<\/p>\n

I picked the topic of tournament brackets because it was a complex and time consuming system to build and I think there are many takeaways that are beneficial to he developer community. I think the topic strikes a nice balance between visual (brackets look cool) and technical (neat algorithms underneath).<\/p>\n

Twitter: @tomharrigan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Principal Software Developer at Alley Interactive, I focus on large media sites. Over the years I’ve worked on NY Post, POLITICO.eu, Vogue, Digiday and others. Previously lead WP dev at HowAboutWe (acquired by Match.com\/OkCupid), and Ninja at WooThemes. I picked the topic of tournament brackets because it was a complex and time consuming system to … Continue reading Tom Harrigan<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251535,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_user_name":"TomHarrigan","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-1281","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0d25f7d6c818075f803656c0e008f6cbfe7bc631c343c693bac0fa1e273b42ce?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0d25f7d6c818075f803656c0e008f6cbfe7bc631c343c693bac0fa1e273b42ce?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0d25f7d6c818075f803656c0e008f6cbfe7bc631c343c693bac0fa1e273b42ce?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0d25f7d6c818075f803656c0e008f6cbfe7bc631c343c693bac0fa1e273b42ce?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0d25f7d6c818075f803656c0e008f6cbfe7bc631c343c693bac0fa1e273b42ce?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0d25f7d6c818075f803656c0e008f6cbfe7bc631c343c693bac0fa1e273b42ce?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asheville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asheville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asheville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asheville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asheville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asheville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/asheville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1281\/revisions\/1282"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asheville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1327?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asheville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asheville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}