Tomas Votruba is a regular speaker at meetups and conferences and writes regularly. He created the Rector project and founded the PHP community in the Czech Republic in 2015. He loves meeting people from the PHP family so he created FriendOfPHP which is updated daily with meetups all over the world.

Cees-Jan has been developing web applications and services with PHP since the early 2000’s. He is a core maintainer of ReactPHP and founder of async first PHP API Clients. When Cees-Jan isn’t developing, he enjoys trying out new craft beers, meeting developers at local meetups, and the peace and quiet of the garden.

Grant is a web developer specializing in DevOps, Jenkins, and anything build related. Hailing from the Washington D.C. area, he works for the Digital Media department at National Public Radio. Previous projects have included working on the NPR One Listening Service, the Reading Service API for NPR, and most recently, refactoring and upgrading infrastructure and […]

Rob Allen is a software consultant and developer with many years experience and writes code in PHP, Python, Swift and other interesting languages. He’s led Slim Framework’s development team and contributes to rst2pdf, Apache OpenWhisk and other open source projects. Rob is a published author and based in the UK where he runs Nineteen Feet […]

Kesha Williams is a Senior Software Engineer with Chick-fil-A. She works with Java and Amazon Web Services (AWS) and often leads innovation teams as they research new technologies that can be applied to restaurant operations. In her spare time, she is a Java Instructor with the University of California, leads the Georgia chapter of Technovation, […]

Michiel Rook is a Java/PHP/Scala consultant from the Netherlands. He loves coaching teams to develop better software and implement continuous deployment. He is a co-founder of Make.io and a member of the Dutch Web Alliance. When he’s not thinking about continuous deployment, devops or event sourcing he enjoys music, cars, sports and movies.

Geeky software developer, prolific knitter, avid allotmenteer, health seeker, 日本語 speaker from the UK. Senior Developer \@ Deeson.

Gert Wijnalda is an entrepreneur, musician and creative coder at heart, and loves bringing practical solutions to abstract challenges. He is the managing director of RedAnt, a software development and consultancy business in the Netherlands, and dedicates himself part time to several charities.

Bryan Robinson is the founder and lead evangelist at Code Contemporary, a company dedicated to sharing the amazing advancements in web technologies happening right now. In over 12 years in the industry, he’s managed and worked on teams of designers and developers that have shipped code to frameworks running sites with millions of monthly views […]

Matthew Hellinger is a consultant to business owners in the E-commerce and SaaS spaces and brings additional experience leading mid- to senior-level PHP developers. His passion is optimizing solutions for security and real world business impact. With PHP development experience dating to the early days of PHP 4 and prior C/C++ development experience, he is […]