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title: About Kaspars Dambis
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# About Kaspars Dambis

![Kaspars Dambis](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/kaspars-dambis-2025-scaled.jpeg?strip=all&quality=90&resize=1920,1280)Me in 2025 during the recording of the [Modern WordPress Fast Track course](https://wpshout.com/wordpress-development-course/#gref).I’m a full-stack developer with over 20 years of experience designing and building enterprise web solutions for global publishers and businesses. After nine years at [XWP](https://xwp.co) (WordPress agency) I’m now building [online courses for experienced WordPress developers](https://kaspars.net/courses) to share that knowledge with the wider community.

I live in Latvia with my wife Baiba and our two kids.

In 2019 we discovered the [FIRE movement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRE_movement) (Financial Independence, Retire Early) and are still interested into all areas of personal finances and future planning. I highly recommend the [Choose Fi podcast](https://www.choosefi.com/), [The Simple Path to Wealth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30646587-the-simple-path-to-wealth) book by [J.L. Collins](https://jlcollinsnh.com/), and the [Bogleheads community](https://www.bogleheads.org/).

On January 1st, 2017 [I started](https://kaspars.net/blog/electronics/ep1-batteries) my [video blog](https://www.youtube.com/kasparsdambis) because writing regular blog posts was no longer as exciting and took more time. The most popular episode is about [adding a display to the Orange Pi Zero](https://kaspars.net/blog/linux/spi-display-orange-pi-zero) micro-computer.

I’m a big fan of the [POSSE](https://indieweb.org/POSSE) which is why every video has a blog entry [on this site](https://kaspars.net/blog/topic/vlog) and all content is available [through ActivityPub](https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/) on [Mastadon](https://mastodon.social/@kaspars@kaspars.net) and other networks via ActivityPub [kaspars.net/@kaspars](https://kaspars.net/@kaspars).

I’m also interested in cryptography and digital identity after getting my [Latvian ID card](https://www.eparaksts.lv/en/) in the summer of 2015. This led me to discover [Yubico](https://www.yubico.com/), [FIDO U2F](https://fidoalliance.org/), [PGP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy) and everything related to JavaCards, encryption and authentication. I contribute to the [two factor authentication](https://wordpress.org/plugins/two-factor/) plugin for WordPress.

In 2007 I started [this blog](https://kaspars.net/blog/archive) to document my adventures with WordPress and open-source, electronics, passive house and home automation.

You can find most of [my projects](https://kaspars.net/projects "My projects") on [GitHub](http://github.com/kasparsd). Here is what [I’m working on right now](//kaspars.net/now) and how to [get in touch](https://kaspars.net/contact). See the [tools and services](https://kaspars.net/uses) I use and [my reading list](https://kaspars.net/reads).

### Colophon

This website is powered by [WordPress](http://wordpress.org) and my own [List theme](http://preseto.com/themes/list "Minimalist, personal theme for makers"). It runs on Ubuntu Bionic (yes, that old), Nginx, PHP 7.4 and is hosted in Latvia by [Tet Cloud](https://tetcloud.com/).