JD Flynn has had mental illness most of his life, but didn’t admit it until his early 30s, when he decided it was time to do something about it. After a decade-long career in emergency services as a paramedic, JD made the jump from the ambulance to the text editor. Since then, JD worked up […]

Kenigbolo Meya Stephen is a Frontend Engineering Lead at BCaster. I’m the Arch Conveyer/Community Manager of CodeAfrique, a not-for-profit weekend intensive software engineering bootcamp for underrepresented groups in IT, which started off first in Estonia. He’s also member of the NodeJS package maintenance committee as well as a writer for Ultimate Course. During his free […]

Eric Van Johnson is one of the members behind PHP Architect, a collective of highly skilled frontend, backend, and mobile developers driven by passion and dedication. Their unyielding commitment to excellence is evident in the exceptional services they provide. Beyond his work with PHP Architect, Eric plays a pivotal role in the organization of the […]

Dawid Debinski is an experienced software engineer, who can combine knowledge from various disciplines. He gets his kicks solving problems, and improving companies processes. Currently works in Luxembourg for WordBee.

.Lochemem Bruno Michael, a recent graduate of the United States International University – Africa, is a PHP enthusiast from Kampala, Uganda. Author of PHP libraries such as bingo-functional and the fauxton-client as well as a PHP C++-powered extension for CouchDB, he is a passionate open-source contributor. In addition to PHP, Mr. Lochemem loves to dabble […]

Matthew Turland has been working with PHP since 2002. He has been both an author and technical editor for php|architect Magazine, spoken at multiple conferences, and contributed to numerous PHP projects. He is the author of Web Scraping with PHP, 2nd Edition and co-author of SitePoint’s PHP Master: Write Cutting-Edge Code. In his spare time, […]

Dave is owns Lamp Bristol, a software consultancy. He also runs the PHP-SW and Bristol PHP Training meetups. He is also the author of SARB (Static Analysis Results Baseliner).

Samuel Levy is a backend PHP developer, freelancer, and consultant. After almost 15 years in the industry, he has encountered, fought, and fixed a wide variety of legacy software. His goal is to make better software, and make software better.

Gary Hockin travels all over the world empowering developers as a Developer Evangelist for Twilio (fine purveyors of communication APIs). He is a talented and evocative speaker, a cultivated author of impressively entertaining blog posts, and records elegant and informative screencasts and videos. Gary’s also a contributor to the Zend Framework and is argumentative enough […]

Karl is the CTO of The Graide Network, where he manages product development and software engineering. He also co-organizes the Chicago PHP User Group and runs CFP Land, a free newsletter for technology conference speakers.