.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.

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 […]