Larry Garfield is an aspiring blacksmith who moonlights as Director of Developer Experience for Platform.sh. When not trying to hand-forge his own medieval armory from scratch he tries to teach developers and development managers the skills of yesteryear that the industry has forgotten.

Tim likes making things, is a lover of well built APIs, and hates the top reply. A former mercenary developer, he’s built numerous applications specializing in API consumption and creation. Now he’s working on new products at PhoneBurner. He also tweets sporadically.

Margaret Staples is delighted to serve Seattle developers as well as PHP and underrepresented developers all over the world as a Developer Evangelist at Twilio. Margaret is a consistent producer of code, philosophy, and attitude. She’s happy to help with all things Twilio, and looks forward to learning about the neat stuff you’re building

Jennifer has been working in the IT field for 8 years as a Software Developer, writing a wide variety of web applications using PHP. For the past five years she’s worked for an awesome financial institution creating super cool applications for our members and employees. She has a Master’s degree from Michigan State University.

Gunnard has been a professional developer for over 20 years. He has worked as a sysadmin, SAN/NAS support, and web developer. Throughout the years he has picked up on tips and tricks other devs use to increase their performance and sharpen their skills. Gunnard has been using TMUX and VIM for the past 10 years […]

Liam is a UK based developer and the CTO at Tebex, a gCommerce company and game server monetization platform. From humble beginnings breaking things in Perl, Liam has tackled projects large and small, from brochure sites in WordPress to eCommerce sites in Magento and SaaS products in Laravel. Outside of CTO-ing, Liam is a father, […]

Beth Tucker Long is a PHP developer and co-organizer of Madison PHP. Beth is a firm believer in promoting community and mentoring. She runs Treeline Design, a web development company, and Exploricon, a gaming convention, along with her husband, Chris. You can find her on her blog http://www.alittleofboth.com and on Twitter

Toni Van de Voorde is CTO at Adsdaq, a Brussels based company, where he helps building a unique digital advertising transaction automation platform. He has over +10 years off experience in writing enterprise web applications and his passions are clean code, testing & quality assurance, automation and application architecture.

Often described as a force of nature, Jennifer Wadella is a remote JavaScript developer, international speaker, foodie, furbaby mama, fitness geek, and community organizer most well known for her work creating innovative and highly sought-after programs for women in technology. Jennifer has been writing code since before she realized it was a credible career path. […]

I am a developer and writer, working at madewithover.com. I usually work on application architecture, though sometimes I build compilers or robots.