My first job was a C programmer when Windows was still relatively new. My web development career started later when I discovered PHP and then Joomla. I joined the team of Virtuemart, one of Joomla's biggest extensions and a major force in e-commerce. After working with many clients, I moved to Drupal and Drupal commerce, and then due to demand, with Wordpress. I looked for ways to give clients faster sites, and that led me to static site generators (Hugo and Gatsby), and back to Wordpress as a headless CMS. I believe in this hybrid model of a React or Angular front-end and a CMS in the back-end, as well as techniques to maximise the speed of a traditional Wordpress site. I would like to share this and encourage new developers to focus on website performance.