Welcome to the community @kyle.skibbe! 
I know you & the team are working hard behind the scenes to deliver the best possible experience for our customers. Is there anything new you & exciting you can share with the community? 
Introduce Yourself Here! 👋
Hi everyone!
My name is Nik Nieuwenhuis and I’m a Web Developer for a creative agency (www.weareva.com.au) on the Sunshine Coast, Australia. We’ve been using Pantheon since 2017.
Happy to be involved in the pantheon community and seeing what new features and updates Pantheon are doing!
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Hi everyone!
My title is Senior Web Developer, but I work for a small university and wear a lot of hats. We’ve been on Pantheon for quite a while now (over 10 years), and it’s set the bar pretty high for how things should work. My coworkers and I often find ourselves wishing we could just spin up a multidev with one click in other products we work with!
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Woooohooo welcome @nik.nieuwenhuis! 
Really excited to have you here in the new Hub!
I LOVE Australia! I went out to Melbourne to watch my sister play footy a few years ago & fell in love! The food, the culture – ah, just all of it! But I am going to be honest, I just googled Sunshine Coast & now I am convinced I need to go back to Australia because I clearly haven’t experienced all it has to offer! Do you surf? 
I would love to see some photos of your favorite places on the coast!
Hey @pantheon.advocate!
Thanks so much for taking time to introduce yourself! Wow, 10 years is such a long time! Thank you for sticking with us as we grew! 
It sounds like you are a huge fan of Multidev – I totally agree! Do you have any other Pantheon features you can’t live without? Anything you wish we would do? I am all ears! 
It looks like AdventHealth University is in Orlando! 
Sounds like a beautiful place to live & work! Healthcare is very near & dear to my heart. I somehow landed in Community Marketing (I am your Community dmin here) but I have a degree in Nutrition & once upon a time was planning to attend medical school to specialize in pediatrics. Oh, how life has it’s twists and turns! Either way I am excited to get to know you better!
I’m excited about our recently released WordPress performance updates via ObjectCache Pro (EA) for everyone. I’m also really inspired by releasing Build Hooks to Front End Sites and the continued innovation happening there every release!
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Do you have any other Pantheon features you can’t live without? Anything you wish we would do?
We would love to use Autopilot, but we just haven’t been able to dedicate the time to getting it set up yet.
It looks like AdventHealth University is in Orlando!
Our main campus is in Orlando (where I work), but we also have a campus in Denver! I wish we had their weather instead right now. 
Hi friends!
My name is Audra Chiles and I am a Project Manager in Professional Services at Pantheon I’ve been with Pantheon for 2 years and I love helping different customers orient to all that Pantheon has to offer when they are bringing their sites over or starting a new build!
Prior to Pantheon I worked as a developer building WordPress sites which was so incredibly fun! I am a learner for life and always love tinkering with new technical concepts!
After a breast cancer diagnosis in 2019 and taking some much needed time to recover from treatment, I decided I wanted to switch gears into Project Management and use a different skillset where there wasn’t so much pressure on me to create and deliver the new build sites but I could still be in the technical details of websites. (By the way, I am 4 years cancer free and thriving 
and my biggest lesson learned through that journey is to always be your own biggest advocate to get the care you need and deserve 
)
I live in Auburn, Alabama with my husband and two sweet pups - a Pittie, Ruby, and a Peki(ngese) named Berrie! These puppos bring me so much joy between cuddles, zoomies, and their general cuteness 
See y’all around!
-Audra
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Hey, hey! I’m Jacquelyn Van Sant, a Technical Migrations Consultant in Professional Services at Pantheon. What does that mean? I have the pleasure of working with customers during their onboarding process, and I provide the technical expertise to migrate customers’ website(s) onto the platform as smoothly and pain-free as possible.
Before Pantheon, I was a Drupal developer for a large university, though I have experience with Wordpress as well. Actually, my web experience goes waaaay back to when I was 14 and introduced to Angelfire. (Anyone else remember those pre-2000 days?) I built my first website with basic HTML I hobbled together from a “learn HTML” website called webmonkey and some very basic graphics I designed in Paintshop Pro. Never thought back then that a fun hobby would eventually become my career. It has been an interesting, winding road!
As a former Pantheon customer myself, I was very impressed with the WebOps solutions the platform brings together. It made my life as a developer easier. It may seem simple in light of more advanced tools available, but one thing I loved when we moved to Pantheon is that the live environment is protected from accidental code changes. Before Pantheon, we had an incident the day before winter break where an individual accidentally deleted the code for an important live site off the on-prem server… and all of the people with access to restore it from the nightly backup were either already out for the holiday or in the same meeting. It is hilarious in hindsight, but it was mortifying at the time. After moving to Pantheon, that type of accident just could not happen. And restoring from a backup became as simple as a literal click of a button. Throw multidevs, Pantheon’s command line Terminus, custom upstreams, the easy of working locally into the mix, and Pantheon felt truly revolutionary. Now we have even more to offer, like Autopilot. I am privileged to be working with Professional Services to help others transition onto Pantheon and take advantage of WebOps.
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Thanks for sharing
We would love to use Autopilot, but we just haven’t been able to dedicate the time to getting it set up yet.
Well, if there is anything we can do to help here, I am all ears! You just let me know!
Our main campus is in Orlando (where I work), but we also have a campus in Denver! I wish we had their weather instead right now.
Ohhh I get that all too well! I live in sunny, hot Phoenix, AZ! 
It’s casually 115 out today, no biggie! But hey it’s a “dry heat” is what everyone says. At least you have the beach!
Awww thanks for sharing Audra! 
Excited to have you here in the community lending your Pantheon expertise & of course the cutest pup photos!
Prior to Pantheon I worked as a developer building WordPress sites which was so incredibly fun!
Wow, how did I not know this! That’s so neat! Do you miss your work as a dev or do you feel like being a technical PM allows you to do a little of both?
After a breast cancer diagnosis in 2019 and taking some much needed time to recover from treatment, I decided I wanted to switch gears into Project Management and use a different skillset where there wasn’t so much pressure on me to create and deliver the new build sites but I could still be in the technical details of websites. (By the way, I am 4 years cancer free and thriving
AMAZINGGGGGGG 
Congrats on being cancer free!! I am really glad you are still here today, what a blessing! 
I donated breast tissue to Susan G Komen Cancer Institute a few years ago in hopes one day they will be able to find the cure. Still hoping for that!
In other news, Chubs said she wants a play date…
Hey Jacquelyn!
It’s so great to meet you! Thanks for jumping in to share a little bit about yourself
My web experience goes waaaay back to when I was 14 and introduced to Angelfire.
I have to admit, I had to google Angelfire! I was like this sounds like a video game – Zelda anyone? 
But how AWESOME! You’re right, it’s crazy how a simple hobby can turn into a career. We are truly living the dream, am I right?
As a former Pantheon customer myself, I was very impressed with the WebOps solutions the platform brings together.
You know what? There are so many customers who have come to work for us! And I think that is truly remarkable. One, it shows we really care about our customers. But most importantly, that we know our customers are the key to unlocking success. When we give our customers a seat at the table to help drive our product & all we do, we are better for it. So I think it’s so neat to have you here!
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Hi! I’m Dan Ficker, and I am a part of the Pantheon Customer Success team. When you submit a Support ticket with a technical question or issue, you may get me or one of my awesome teammates.
I’ve been a customer of Pantheon since I think about 2015. In that summer, I migrated hundreds of Drupal and WordPress sites to Pantheon. And in 2018 I started working on Pantheon’s Support team. I enjoy answering questions and solving mysteries related to the Pantheon platform as well as Drupal and WordPress. I’ve also been using Drupal since 2005.
In my home in St. Paul, Minnesota, US, I have about 1,300 compact discs in my music collection. I enjoy all kinda of music, but most of my music is obscure Christian rock from the late 1990s and 2000s. It’s an odd niche, but I enjoy it.
Welcome to the Pantheon Community! Good to meet you all!
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Hello! I’m Jared Sulzdorf, and I’m a Product Manager at Pantheon. I work on the CMS Operations team with a team of intrepid and knowledgeable engineers that work on tools like Terminus, Custom Upstreams, Integrated Composer, and more.
Like @chris.reynolds, I’ve been working with WordPress for a long time. First as a freelancer, then at a small agency turned publishing platform, and now at Pantheon. WordPress has given me a lens through which to see the changing nature of the web (and change it has!), and I’m forever grateful for that.
I’m based out of Woodinville, Washington (just outside of Seattle), and originally hail from the great state of Montana. In my free time, I run with my dog (picture below), bake bread, tend to one of my many plants (either indoors or out in the garden), or study “nerd stuff” like distributed system design or AI/ML.
I’m especially excited about the work my team is doing on Customer Secrets (currently in EA!!) and our efforts to modernize the development experience on the platform. Super happy to be here!!
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Welcome to the party @daniel.ficker.getpantheon.com
And thanks so much for sharing a little bit about yourself! Our customers are in the best hands with you solving their most complex issues, that is for sure!
Hmmm I am intrigued! I have never heard of this but I am certainly about to go down a rabbit hole! Send any recommendations you have!
Welcome to the community Jared! We are so excited to have you here!
Okay, not to put you on the spot but would you & the team be interested in participating in an AMA around one of the tools you own below? I think it would be really neat to see what questions come through No pressure though!
I work on the CMS Operations team with a team of intrepid and knowledgeable engineers that work on tools like Terminus, Custom Upstreams, Integrated Composer, and more.
In other news, what is this adorable pups name!? I am also an avid runner – although my pup doesn’t like to run. Bummer!
And YAY for customer secrets!!
I have to admit, I had to google Angelfire! I was like this sounds like a video game – Zelda anyone?
No worries. It was a little less known from the handful of “free hosting” options many us of amateurs and curious teens took advantage of in the late 90s: Geocities, Lycos, Homestead, and I’ve forgotten the rest. Not that I’m bias or anything, but even back then, I thought “Angelfire” was the coolest name. It does sound like a video game or something out of a fantasy novel. 
Hey all ,
Found myself checking out this new community hub today… I’ve been working with Pantheon for about 2 years now, and my company is hosting 80+ sites on the platform (and ever growing). I’m a Drupal architect with Voya Financial and have been with the company 14+ years now.
Professionally, I have both IT and marketing backgrounds, and working on the web is right where I want to be. I most enjoy working SEO, analytics and performance optimization, as well as accessibility and UX.
Personally, my interests are sports 
(playing/watching), the water 
(beaches/boats/lakes), and I’m a pretty immersed 
Dave Matthews Band fan. I’ll save you the details…
Hoping this community is a great asset to us at Voya!
Robert Hinrichs, Principal Engineer at Common Sense Media. I am pretty busy, but I heard there were prizes here. The concept of this community site and how it is executed are pretty interesting. https://www.commonsense.org/education is my site. I like making music as well, see https://www.bobisfamous.com
Hey everyone!
I’m Chris Lampson, the Web Developer for Houston Christian University (hc.edu), a medium-sized university that offers over 130 degrees, including Cyber Engineering, Cybersecurity, and Video Game Design. I do web design, development, SEO, analytics, e-commerce forms, and website support for the university on a small marketing team.
I have worked in IT, digital media and communications, vocational ministry, and I studied counseling. Web development started as a hobby when I was young but it became apart of my consulting business and now it’s my job. I’m from Houston, Texas, but I currently live in South Carolina since getting married, so I work remotely.
I love to try exotic foods and drinks, explore the mountains/beaches/rivers/lakes, play drums and enjoy music, watch baseball, play pickleball, help people grow and heal through counseling, and do anything with my amazing wife. Also, I send approximately 100 cat gifs every week through text and Teams - there’s one for every occasion.
Look forward to interacting with the Pantheon community!