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 […]

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.