I’m Deborah Beckett — a mom, wife, runner, crafter. I’ve lived in North Carolina for most of my life, between Hendersonville (a small town in the western mountains near Asheville) and Durham, next to Research Triangle Park (North Carolina’s “Silicon Valley”).

I started my career in web development after earning a BA in Digital Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Over the years I’ve also worked in QA and enterprise software implementation, and I now work on GRC at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and WordPress VIP.

Besides running, I also enjoy embroidery, chess, and gardening.