Meet Bret Orton
Bret Orton
Co-Founder and CTO, Relish Studio
Bret has been building websites since 1994. As Relish’s co-founder and CTO, he oversees how every project is built, launched, secured, and maintained, working across the open source stack with WordPress as home base.
Bret Orton
Co-Founder and CTO
Built Right Kept Running
A great website isn’t finished at launch. Bret leads Relish’s WordPress Health & Security plans, so client sites stay updated, backed up, monitored, and protected long after go-live – and problems get fixed before anyone notices.
Title
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Connect
2008
Boulder, Colorado
Expertise
Open source web development, WordPress, databases, server-side and front-end code
Build websites since
About Bret
Bret has been developing websites since he published his first page in 1994. He works primarily with open source software and is comfortable across the whole stack, from the database to server-side logic to the front-end code visitors interact with. In 2008 he co-founded Relish Studio with Stu Swineford. Before Relish, he led digital development work in agency and corporate roles. Today he oversees how every Relish project is built, launched, secured, and maintained.
As Bret likes to put it, most of a developer’s work is never seen by the client or the user, yet it’s what makes the whole website possible.
Outside of work, Bret is learning guitar and plays a Martin D-18 Retro. He has also tried his hand at archery with a recurve bow.
Areas of expertise
- Website architecture and product development
- WordPress design and development
- Open source web technologies (LAMP stack)
- Databases and server-side development
- Front-end integration
- WordPress health and security
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