Eli White is a Conference Chair for php[architect] and Vice President of One for All Events, LLC. The day he found the non-greedy modifier in regex was a complete game changer for him.

James is a consultant, trainer and developer at Roave. He is a prolific contributor to various open source projects and is a Zend Certified Engineer. He also founded the UK based PHP Hampshire user group and PHP South Coast conference.

Ed Barnard had a front-row seat when the Morris Worm took down the Internet, November 1988. He was teaching CRAY-1 supercomputer operating system internals to analysts as they were being directly hit by the Worm. It was a busy week! Ed continues to indulge his interests in computer security and teaching software concepts to others.

Chris Tankersley is a husband, father, author, speaker, podcast host, and PHP developer. He works for InQuest, a network security company out of Washington, DC, but lives in Northwest Ohio. Chris has worked with many different frameworks and languages throughout his twelve years of programming but spends most of his day working in PHP and […]

David is a developer from Fort Collins, Colorado. He’s worked with PHP for over a decade, and does a lot of intensive backend work, a fair bit of JavaScript, and dabbles with CSS. While big into WordPress—he owns and runs the popular development tutorial site WPShout—he has experience with everything from old school PHP to […]

Michael Miles has been working with PHP since 2004. He is the V.P. of Technology for the digital marketing agency Genuine, where he helps lead, scope, architect and build many of the development projects. He speaks at technology conferences around the world and is also the host of the development career focused podcast DevelopingUp.

Colin is a senior developer with Vehikl, a full services software consultancy, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and co-organizer of the GPUG PHP Users Group. With over a decade of professional experience, Colin is never put off by a good challenge. He enjoys refactoring often neglected legacy code bases as much as tackling the wide open […]

Andrea Roenning is a Senior Web Developer and Designer at Forte in Madison, WI where she develops and maintains several WordPress sites. She has been building websites since 2001. Andrea is also a co-founder of Codecinella, a Madison, Wisconsin non-profit with a mission to empower women software engineers. She tweets about tech, music and motherhood.