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• This web site is maintained by Zach Leatherman (he, him, they).
• View his full résumé or learn about his favorite tools.

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Zach is a builder for the web at Font Awesome and the creator/maintainer of Eleventy (11ty), an award-winning open source site generator. At one point he became entirely too fixated on web fonts. He has given {{ collections.all | getSpeakingCount: "type" }} talks in {{ collections.all | getSpeakingUniqueCount: "country" | numberString }} different countries at events like Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, Jamstack Conf, CSSConf, and The White House. Formerly part of CloudCannon, Netlify, Filament Group, NEJS CONF, and NebraskaJS.

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Zach is a builder for the web at <a href="https://fontawesome.com/">Font Awesome</a> and the creator/maintainer of <a href="https://www.11ty.dev">Eleventy (11ty)</a>, an award-winning open source site generator. At one point he became entirely <a href="https://www.zachleat.com/web/fonts/"><em>too fixated</em> on web fonts</a>. He has given <a href="https://www.zachleat.com/web/speaking/">{{ collections.all | getSpeakingCount: "type" }} talks in {{ collections.all | getSpeakingUniqueCount: "country" | numberString }} different countries</a> at events like Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, Jamstack Conf, CSSConf, and <a href="https://www.zachleat.com/web/whitehouse/">The White House</a>. Formerly part of <a href="https://cloudcannon.com/">CloudCannon</a>, Netlify, <a href="https://www.filamentgroup.com/">Filament Group</a>, <a href="http://nejsconf.com/">NEJS CONF</a>, and <a href="http://nebraskajs.com">NebraskaJS</a>.

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Zach is a builder for the web at [Font Awesome](https://fontawesome.com/) and the creator/maintainer of [Eleventy (11ty)](https://www.11ty.dev), an award-winning open source site generator. At one point he became entirely [_too fixated_ on web fonts](https://www.zachleat.com/web/fonts/). He has given [{{ collections.all | getSpeakingCount: "type" }} talks in {{ collections.all | getSpeakingUniqueCount: "country" | numberString }} different countries](https://www.zachleat.com/web/speaking/) at events like Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, Jamstack Conf, CSSConf, and [The White House](https://www.zachleat.com/web/whitehouse/). Formerly part of Netlify, [Filament Group](https://www.filamentgroup.com/), [NEJS CONF](http://nejsconf.com/), and [NebraskaJS](http://nebraskajs.com).

Photos

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Picture taken by Andrey Davydchyk at CSS Minsk JS. Download JPEG version.

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Picture taken by Marc Thiele at SmashingConf Whistler. Download the original version.

Deprecated.

This web site was started in 2007 and was originally titled Web 3.0, 6 Bladed Razors, and 7 Minute Abs.

Site History

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