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Bio
Zach Leatherman 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 85 talks in nine 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 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 85 talks in nine 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/">85 talks in nine 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 [85 talks in nine 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).
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