Marcia Burrows, The Logical Woman, has been a professional learning-game designer for over 35 years and has served as Community Teaching Assistant for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s online courses (MIT edX) on game design. She currently uses PHP, database, JavaScript and HTML5 as tools for designing computer and tabletop games.

Paweł Lewtak is developer with 10 years of experience with web-based applications. He created them from scratch from analysis and writing specifications up to deployment on production. He is a big fan of continuous learning and continuous improvement.

Senior Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience in PHP. A Brazilian currently living in Ireland with family. A stutterer conference speaker passionate about code quality, tests, legacy code, and remote work. Creator of Corcel PHP, elephpant.me, and former PHPMG organizer. Engineering Team Lead at Glofox.

Jason McCreary, aka “JMac”, is a software engineer specializing in PHP & iOS application development. Creator of Laravel Shift and author of BaseCode. JMac has a passion for programming and the great outdoors. Never hesitate to talk to him about either.

Chris Holland leads a small Software Engineering Team at an HR company. Throughout a career spanning more than 20 years, Chris has held Sr. Engineering and Leadership roles for small and large successful publicly-traded companies such as EarthLink and Internet Brands, serving business models across Content, Commerce, Travel, and Finance on a wide variety of […]

Eric is a seasoned web developer experienced with multiple languages and platforms. He’s been working with PHP for more than a decade and focuses his time on helping developers get started and learn new skills with their tech of choice. You can reach out to him directly via Twitter.

Joe Ferguson is a PHP developer and community organizer. He is involved with many different technology related initiatives in Memphis including the Memphis PHP User group. He’s been married to his extremely supportive and amazing wife for a really long time and she turned him into a crazy cat man. They live in the Memphis […]

Eli White is a Conference Chair for php[architect] and Vice President of One for All Events, LLC. The day he found the non-greedy modifier in regex was a complete game changer for him.

James is a consultant, trainer and developer at Roave. He is a prolific contributor to various open source projects and is a Zend Certified Engineer. He also founded the UK based PHP Hampshire user group and PHP South Coast conference.

Ed Barnard had a front-row seat when the Morris Worm took down the Internet, November 1988. He was teaching CRAY-1 supercomputer operating system internals to analysts as they were being directly hit by the Worm. It was a busy week! Ed continues to indulge his interests in computer security and teaching software concepts to others.