Bryce is a teacher, manager, and programmer who has been working in IT since the 1990s. Twenty years ago he was teaching students to create video games. Ten years ago he was leading a large school district’s IT department. Today he’s writing software to help medical researchers collaborate. At home Bryce has a wife, a […]

Steve Grunwell is an open-source developer, speaker, occasional blogger, and full-time coffee snob.

Gabriel has been enjoying crafting software for almost three decades, during which he learned that most technologies are pleasurable, the moment you understand which particular problem it comes to solve. Father of three, lecturer, Gabriel is currently employed at Wix.com and is always happy to share knowledge and experience.

Steve Bennet is Technical Project Lead for Soliant Consulting, Inc. in Chicago IL. He’s certified in some of Soliant’s key areas of expertise, including PHP, Zend Framework and MySQL.

Barney has been using PHP since 2004, and worked as a consultant across Europe for Ibuildings and Inviqa for over five years. He now works as a Senior Developer and mentor at London-based fintech WorldFirst, where he tries to stop developers making the same painful mistakes he made. A proponent of testing, he has contributed […]

Brian Thompson, a former outdoorsman turned web developer, currently leads a team of 20+ developers in the creation and maintenance of digital experiences. As the Director of Web Engineering at Mindgrub Technologies, Brian oversees all of the web projects in addition to the odd robotics project. Through this work he has had to handle website […]

Passionate about being a developer, teacher and mentor for newcomers into world of programming. Works for Code4Hire, remote team of software engineers, offering outsourcing and consulting services. Organiser of @webcampzagreb conference. Enjoys playing and watching sports that Croatians find odd and unpopular.

Michael Schrenk has developed software that collects and processes massive amounts of data for some of the biggest news agencies in Europe and leads a competitive intelligence consultancy in Las Vegas. He consults on information security and Big Data everywhere from Moscow to Silicon Valley, and most places in between. Mike is the author of […]

Stefany Newman has been creating websites for nearly ten years. She started developing when the phrase “Responsive Web Design” was first coined and had to battle with Internet Explorer 6 for good user experience. She loves educating and helping people on how to better their online presence. With clients all over the world, Stefany is […]

Mark Niebergall is a security-minded PHP software engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience with PHP projects. He is the Utah PHP User Group Co-Organizer and often speaks at user groups and conferences. Mark has a Masters degree in MIS, is CSSLP and SSCP cybersecurity certified, and volunteers for (ISC)2 exam development. Mark enjoys […]