Sam was the founder of BruteProtect, a distributed brute force attack protection tool which was acquired by Automattic in August 2014. Sam is now hard at work on integrating BruteProtect into Jetpack, and exploring the future as an Automattician.

Sam travels with his wife, Becky (and, quite often, their three dogs, Barkley, Izzy and Stanley) to WordCamps around the world.  He presents on topics ranging from security to building web apps to building and managing large blog networks to the future of WordPress and the internet.