Joel works with Laravel teams to help them level up their skills and ship better products. Co-host of the [No Compromises podcast](https://show.nocompromises.io). Author of Mastering Laravel Validation [Rules]. Organizer of Milwaukee PHP.

Marian Pop is a PHP / Laravel Developer based in Transylvania. He writes and maintains LaravelMagazine.com and hosts “The Laravel Magazine Podcast”.

Nicola Pignatelli has been building PHP applications since 2001 for many largest organizations in the field of publishing, mechanics and industrial production, startups, banking, and teaching. Currently, he is a Senior PHP Developer and Drupal Architect. Yes, this photo is of him.

Florian is a father of five, developer, architect, tech lead, geek and still sometimes finds time to contribute to open source. He started writing software with PHP in September 2000 and will try to convince you to use vim.

Frank Wallen is a PHP developer and tabletop gaming geek (really a gamer geek in general). He is also the proud father of two amazing young men and grandfather to two beautiful children who light up his life. He lives in Southern California and hopes to one day have a cat again.

Mauro Chojrin is a PHP Trainer and Consultant. He has been involved in the IT Industry since 1997 in a wide array of positions, including technical support, development, team leadership, IT management, and teaching. He also maintains his blog, https://academy.leewayweb.com, and YouTube channel where he shares his knowledge with the world.

Olivia Liddell is a Technical Curriculum Developer at Amazon Web Services. Over the course of her career, she has created innovative teaching and technical training solutions for learners from diverse backgrounds and skill levels. A Certified Ethical Hacker, Olivia frequently speaks on topics such as social engineering and security awareness. In her spare time, she […]

Torsten Dittmann is a Fullstack Engineer at Appwrite building an Open Source Backend-as-a-Service with PHP.

Doug Dobrzynski is currently a Web Developer/Programmer at PMMI Media Group, where he enjoys working on PHP projects (both Drupal and non-Drupal). When he’s not being an awesome web developer/programmer, Doug enjoys reading, cooking, and savoring good Belgian wheat beers (or just about any non-hoppy wheat beer for that matter).

Alexandros Gougousis is a software engineer with an academic background in Electrical & Computer Engineering. He started as a system administrator, switched to programming in 2010 and since 2017 he is focusing exclusively on the back-end of web application development. Alexandros writes a developer blog. In his free time, he loves reading history and playing […]