Jeremy created his first PHP website in 2005 for his high school robotics club. He’s now the software architect at Education.com, a startup that helps millions of teachers and parents educate their children. Jeremy is the author of several popular open source libraries including PHP Reports, Sql Formatter, and JSON Editor. He lives in Boston […]

I am a Software Developer with a primary focus in web based technologies, I’ve worked in the industry for roughly 13 year now in various capacities.

Matt started programming by teaching himself Basic on his Commodore 64 and he hasn’t stopped since. He spent the first 10 years of his career writing client/server applications for the financial services industry. For the last 10 years he’s been leading teams building large scale web applications for a variety of industries, primarily with PHP. […]

Shahina Patel spends her time as a consultant working on people-based challenges and solutions; like tools and processes that can make teams work better and successfully create great products. She recently moved to Edmonton, Canada from Manchester in the UK. In her spare time, she organises DeliverConf and runs quizzes at any meetup that will […]

Antonio Perić-Mažar is CEO at Locastic, an agency based in Split, Croatia. Its main focus is to build amazing mobile and web applications for their clients, which range from small startups to enterprise companies from all around the world. For the last 10+ years Antonio has dedicated his time to delivering high quality software solutions […]

Derek is the Technical Lead at the National Conference of Bar Examiners, the creator of licensing exams for attorneys. He actively mentors other developers, specializes in Java, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL and Oracle and advocates for accessible design of websites and applications. When not in front of a computer he enjoys spending time with family, traveling […]

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.