Speakers
Ilia Alshanetsky Centah Inc.
Ilia Alshanetsky is a CIO at Centah Inc., a company specializing in providing solutions to retail and construction industries. In his spare time Ilia is an active member of a PHP community as a Core Developer, Q&A team member and Release Master. He occasionally dabbles in writing and has published a book on PHP Security and can frequently be found speaking on various PHP topics at conferences world-wide. In the little time that is left, he pretends to be a professional photographer and engages is various outdoor sports.
Jeff Barr Amazon Web Services
Jeff Barr is Senior Web Services Evangelist at Amazon Web Services, where he is focused on furthering awareness among software developers of the opportunity to innovate and build businesses using Amazon Web Services. In this role, Jeff travels, speaks, blogs, and conducts virtual events. Jeff has held development and management positions at Microsoft, KnowNow, eByz, and Akopia and was a co-founder of Visix Software. He earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science from American University and performed graduate work in computer science at George Washington University. Jeff is currently a part-time graduate student in the Digital Media program at the University of Washington. He has written over 1000 posts for the AWS blog and another 1100 for his personal blog. He’s been a technical reviewer for 4 books on web services, wrote a chapter on advanced scripting for a book on Second Life, and is the author of Host Your Website in the Cloud, published by SitePoint in September of 2010.
Sebastian Bergmann thePHP.cc
Sebastian Bergmann is a mastermind of PHP development and PHP quality assurance. He has instrumentally contributed to tranforming PHP into a reliable platform for large-scale, critical projects. Companies and PHP developers around the world benefit from the tools that he has written.
Arne Blankerts thePHP.cc
Arne Blankerts solves IT problems long before many companies realize that they even exist. IT security is his passion, which he attends with almost magical intuition creating solutions that clearly bear his hallmark. Companies around the world rely on his site system and
Unix-based system architectures.
Josh Butts Vertive LLC
Josh is currently the Director of Development at Vertive, LLC, and oversees the development of several PHP powered internet properties, including Offers.com. Josh is also the organizer of Austin PHP, and recently taught a 10 week beginner-level PHP course, brining more new developers into the fold. Josh has been developing e-commerce sites in PHP for over 8 years. Follow Josh as "jimbojsb" on Twitter and Github
Tony Cairns IBM
Tony Cairns is a senior programmer for IBM in Rochester, Minnesota. Tony’s career includes many positions ranging from management to technical. He is currently a member of the IBM i PASE/PHP team and adjunct member of the Apache / Web Services team.
Jeff Carouth Texas A&M University
Jeff Carouth is a professional web application developer focused on developing with emerging technologies and techniques on an improved LAMP stack. His development interests take him deep into the world of organized automation and back into the joys of light, fast mobile applications on the web. He does not back down from a challenge and truly believes that every problem has a solution.
Moris Chen zend
For the past 4 years Moris Chen has been working for Zend Technologies in Israel, leading the Performance and Production Readiness team under the Quality Assurance department. Moris firmly believes that performance, load and stress testing should be a vital part in any software project. They help to predict real world scenario behavior, and more importantly, he has a lot of fun performing them. In his free time Moris enjoys outdoor activities likes kitesurfing and swimming.
Mihai Corlan Adobe Systems Romania
I have been working for Adobe since 2006. Starting with June 2008 I am a Platform Evangelist with Adobe Systems (Flex, AIR, LCDS, BlazeDS, ColdFusion) and after years of developing web applications using HTML/JavaScript I enjoy a lot coding in Flex/ActionScript.
Before that, I was a member of Flex Builder team working on various wizards for Flex Builder 3. You can admire my work whenever you are using New Flex/Air project wizard or Import/Export Flex project.
Before Adobe I was senior developer with InterAKT Online (which was acquired by Adobe in 2006) and I worked on web products such as shops, newsletter, surveys or on RAD tools for web developers.
Daniel Cousineau RAPP
Daniel Cousineau is an Interactive Software Engineer for RAPP Collins in Dallas, Texas. He is a jack of many trades, jumping from back-end PHP development to front-end JavaScript development and into the mobile space through jQuery Mobile and HP/Palm WebOS.
Michael Crandell RightScale
Michael Crandell is the CEO and a founder of RightScale, where he provides the vision and direction for the company as it pioneers innovative ways to bring the power of cloud computing to any organization. Crandell is a frequent speaker at cloud computing industry conferences, and he has played a major role in helping establish and promote openness and transparency in the cloud market. Prior to RightScale, he served as CEO at several Internet Software-as-a-Service (SAAS) companies and as executive vice president at eFax.com. Crandell received his B.A. from Stanford University and completed graduate studies at Harvard University.
Raymond DeRoo
Raymond is currently the Data Architect at Nimbuzz BV in The Netherlands with a keen focus on performance. With over 15 years of MySQL experience and PHP dating back to the 2.0 days, he is a seasoned industry veteran. Although being an Open Source advocate, he believes firmly using the right tool for the job. Working with developers in PHP and other languages, he strives to find the balance between code maintainability and system performance. When not at the computer Raymond is an avid photographer and cyclist.
Anna Filina FooLab Inc.
Anna is a long-time Web developer. Today, she uses mainly PHP and Javascript. She likes elegant code and robust frameworks. Performance, scalability and usability are her favorite meals. After billable hours, Anna organizes social and educational events for PHP Quebec as well as the ConFoo conference. When she gets time off, she likes to travel, ski and go out with friends.
Steve Francia 10gen
Steve is the Chief Solutions Architect at 10gen where he leads the
application engineering organization. Prior to 10gen Steve led OpenSky to become the first ecommerce site powered by MongoDB and one of the first PHP sites backed by MongoDB. His previous roles include CIO/COO at Portero, VP of Development at Takkle and Founder & CTO of Supernerd. Steve has a long history with PHP contributing to many open source projects including authoring the Zoop Framework, the first object oriented framework for PHP. Other contributions include MongoDB, Doctrine and Symfony2.
Roy Ganor Zend Technologies
Roy Ganor is the Project Lead of the PHP Development Tools (PDT) and Ajax Tools Framework (ATF) open-source projects at Eclipse and is leading the Development Tools team at Zend Technologies. Roy is Java Sun and PHP Zend certified, has extensive Java experience in the areas of computer language analysis and systems integration. He brings together concrete experiences from various projects of various sizes with a practical approach to design and testing.
Andi Gutmans Zend Technologies
As CEO and co-founder of Zend, Andi Gutmans provides vision and direction for the company’s leadership in the evolution and growth of PHP application development software and services. He has been instrumental in establishing PHP as a technology platform of choice for web and mobile applications running on-premise and in the cloud; and has consistently championed the benefits of PHP openness, standardization and best practices among enterprise IT leaders and the developer community. Gutmans has established strategic partnerships for Zend with Adobe, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle; led the vision and formation of the Zend Framework open source project; and helped establish SimpleCloud.org with industry partners to foster a unified API for application portability in cloud computing. Gutmans has been a key contributor to PHP since 1997.
Sam Hennessy i3logix, inc
Sam Hennessy currently works in an architectural position at the SaaS platform development company i3logix. In this position Sam is required to help teams in how they designing and developing large scale systems in PHP.
Sam also has much experience implementing the Scrum agile methodology. For his last two positions, having helped both companies move to using Scrum to the fullest.
A Zend Certified Engineer and an ex Zend Technologies Professional Services Consultant. Sam got to travel around the country working with PHP shops big and small. While at Zend Sam also worked as an instructor for Zend’s training courses.
Sam get's to speak regularly at him local PHP user group the Front Range PHP Users Group as well as speaking twice at the 2009 ZendCon.
Originally from England Sam now lives in Denver, CO.
You can find Sam online via: http://www.google.com/profiles/sam.hennessy
Stuart Herbert
Stuart Herbert is a highly experienced software engineer and operational manager who explores his professional and personal passions through teaching, talks, and writing. He is currently the Head of Engineering for Gradwell, one of the top 50 fastest growing technology companies in the UK and one of the top 500 fastest growing technology companies in Europe.
His passions are for good engineering, good management, Linux, web-based applications (and PHP in particular), photography, walking, and T’ai Chi Ch’uan. Stuart has contributed to several open-source projects since the early 1990′s, most notably Gentoo Linux and Generic NQS.
Stuart holds a degree in Software Engineering from the University of Sheffield, and is a qualified teacher of adults for lifelong learning. You can learn more about him by visiting his website http://www.stuartherbert.com.
Bradley Holt Found Line
Bradley Holt is a web developer, entrepreneur, community facilitator, and an author. He is the co-founder of Found Line, a Vermont-based creative studio with capabilities in web development, graphic design, and marketing strategy. He is a Board Member at Vermont Community Access Media, a non-profit community media and technology center. He is a minor contributor of source code and bug reports to Zend Framework and an active member of the PHP community. He organizes the Burlington, Vermont PHP Users Group where he is a regular speaker and is involved with helping to organize other technology community events such as Vermont Code Camp. He is the author of Writing and Querying MapReduce Views in CouchDB and Scaling CouchDB, both published by O’Reilly Media. He curated a workshop on Big Data and APIs for PHP Developers for SXSW Interactive 2011 and will be presenting on CouchDB related topics at this year's OSCON and OSCON Data.
He blogs at http://www.bradley-holt.com and can be found on Twitter as @BradleyHolt.
Paul Jones
Paul is an internationally recognized PHP expert who has worked as everything from junior developer to VP of Engineering in all kinds of organizations (corporate, military, non-profit, educational, and medical among others). Paul’s latest open-source project is the Aura Framework for PHP 5.3+. Among his other accomplishments, Paul is the lead developer of the Solar Framework for PHP 5, the creator of the Savant template system, has authored a series of authoritative benchmarks on dynamic framework performance, and was a founding contributor to the Zend Framework (the DB, DB_Table, and View components).
Bill Karwin Karwin Software Solutions
Bill Karwin has been a software engineer for over twenty years, developing applications, libraries, and servers for mid-sized companies and startups. Bill’s career has focused on technologies and tools that enable the success and productivity of other software developers, for example the Zend Framework library for PHP 5 web development, the InterBase relational database, and the Enhydra Java application server. Bill is the author of “SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming” from Pragmatic Bookshelf.
Juozas Kaziukenas
Juozas, or as everyone calls him Joe, is an experienced and talented (some say) young professional, working with all kind of web projects as founder and CEO of Web Species Ltd - starting from small to medium websites and ending with enterprise business tools. When not working, he finds time to pursue a computer science degree and contribute to open-source projects to improve interoperability and platform independence. His hands-on practice with collection of different technologies and programming languages allows him to deliver unbiased and practical presentations in all kind of different topics.
Maurice Kherlakian Zend technologies
Maurice Kherlakian, Professional Services consultant for Zend Technologies, is a seasoned PHP professional with over 11 years of experience building and maintaining several small and large scale applications across multiple industries. His experience also includes system administration for both Windows and Linux platforms. Maurice is a senior member of Zend’s Professional Services consulting team, which gives him the opportunity to travel the globe to assist Zend's customers in improving their experience with PHP and Zend Solutions. Maurice specializes in PHP and Zend Framework architectural and performance audits and implementation of best practices to provide solutions for complex problems. Maurice lives in Montreal with his wife, daughter and two Persian cats. In his little spare time you can find him flying (crashing) remote control airplanes and helicopters.
Jeff Kibler Infobright
A twice-graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Jeff Kibler holds a Bachelor in Computer Science and a Master of Business Administration. Jeff serves as the community manager and head cheerleader for Infobright’s open-source columnar datebase. In previous positions, Jeff acted as the program manager for data quality in Yahoo!’s massive audience data pipeline. In his work, Jeff presented key findings and strategy to academic and industrial forums at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Data Sciences Summer Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Data Quality Industry Symposium.
Stefan Koopmanschap
Stefan Koopmanschap is a Zend PHP5 Certified developer, consultant and trainer. He is a community person and is active in the european PHP community as secretary of the phpBenelux Usergroup as well as in the symfony community as Community Manager amongst other things.
Scott Mattocks GSN Digital
Scott Mattocks is the Web Development Lead at GSN.com. He leads a team of skilled developers in support of GSN's on-line games group. Recently, Scott helped to launch WaterSpout, a WebSocket server, with long polling fallback, written entirely in PHP. Scott is also a contributor to PEAR and is the author of "Pro PHP-GTK".
Dwight Merriman 10gen
Dwight is CEO and co-founder of 10gen, and one of the original authors of MongoDB. In 1995, Dwight co-founded DoubleClick and served as its CTO for ten years. Dwight was the architect of the DoubleClick ad serving infrastructure, DART, which serves tens of billions of ads per day. Dwight is co-founder, Chairman, and the original architect of Panther Express (now part of CDNetworks), a content distribution network (CDN) technology that serves hundreds of thousands of objects per second. Dwight is also a co-founder and investor in BusinessInsider.com and Gilt Groupe.
Kent Mitchell Zend Technologies
Kent Mitchell has an extensive background in the software industry ranging from his early days as a programmer writing embedded systems to his current position as Director of Product Management for Zend. Kent has over 30 years of experience working with companies like Rational Software, Symantec and Zend to help define Developer tools and Server infrastructure.
Mike Pavlak Zend Technologies
Mike Pavlak has been working with IBM midrange solutions since 1992 and IBM Mainframes before that. After years of developing applications using RPG, CL and PHP he managed IT development and IT for power protection manufacturer Tripp Lite. Recently, Mike has joined Zend as a Solutions Consultant working with the i5 sales team and spreading the news about Zend solutions in the IBM midrange arena.
Mike lives in suburban Chicago with his wife, five kids, a dog, three cats, a leopard spotted gecko, Russian tortoise, two rabbits, half a dozen fish and dwarf hamster.
Stefan Priebsch thePHP.cc
Stefan Priebsch unites expert knowledge with extraordinary sense when to use which tool. His specialties are object-oriented development and software architecture. As an internationally acclaimed author and speaker he thrills auditoriums and likes to share his tremendous practical experience.
Derick Rethans
Derick Rethans has contributed in a number of ways to the PHP project, including the Xdebug debugging tool, the mcrypt, date and input-filter extensions, bug fixes, additions and leading the QA team. He's a frequent lecturer at conferences, the author of php|architect's Guide to Date and Time Programming, and the co-author of PHP 5 Power Programming. Derick works as an independent contractor doing various PHP related jobs while focussing on internals and extensions. In his spare time he likes to travel, hike, ski and practise photography. You can reach him at derick@derickrethans.nl
Rob Richards Mashery
Rob Richards is Chief Architect at Mashery, the leading provider of on-demand API management solutions. Rob has numerous years experience working with and architecting a wide variety of APIs on a number of different platforms. He also maintains a number of the XML based extensions for PHP, contributes to the libxml2 and libxslt projects and is the author of both the xmlseclibs, a library providing XML Signatures and Encryption for PHP, as well as the wse-php library to provide WS-* support for the native PHP SOAP extension.
Eric Ritchie Zend Technologies
Eric Ritchie is a PHP5.3, Zend Framework, MySQL Developer and DBA certified Senior Consultant at Zend Technologies - the PHP Company. He is the holder of a B-Eng honors degree in Electronic and Information Engineering from The Robert Gordon University (formerly The Robert Gordon Institute of Technology) - Aberdeen, Scotland; and can boast 24 years of software development experience, eleven of which have been spent working with PHP and web technologies, and 17 years system administration experience. He is completely at home developing comprehensive architectural and software solutions for Zend's consulting customers. When not consulting or training, Eric can be found speaking at technical PHP conferences. A family man with two children he has little spare time however, on the rare occasion that time allows, he enjoys relaxing with a nice glass of fine single malt, as do all Scotsmen!
Tim Rowe IBM
Tim Rowe has been working with IBM for 20+ years within the IBM i family in Rochester, Minnesota. He spent many years working on the Work Management portion of the operating system before moving into Web based middle ware on IBM i a number of years ago. He is currently the Business Architect for Application Development for IBM i. These responsibilities include technical leadership responsibilities ensuing the IBM i platform has the infrastructure and components required for our IBM i customers to successfully develop, build and run applications on IBM i. Working with Rational, WebSphere, and Zend on a day-to-day basis gives Tim the opportunity to understand how these product work and how they integrate into an overall picture of Application Development on IBM i. Additional areas for which Tim has responsibility include the IBM HTTP Server, Web Administration GUI interface, Integrated Web Application Server for i, Web Service Server for i, and other application components
Ralph Schindler Zend Technologies Inc.
Ralph Schindler is a software engineer on the Zend Framework Team at Zend Technologies. His contributions to ZF started at its initial release in March of 2006 while employed as an application developer at Tippingpoint/3Com. Ralph has been using PHP as a primary application stack for nearly 11 years and is a proponent of pushing the PHP stack further into the enterprise arena. He contributes writings to both Zend's DevZone and his personal website ralphschindler.com. Ralph splits his time between his home in Austin, Texas and his native city of New Orleans, Louisiana in an attempt to contribute to as many user groups as possible. When he is not promoting ZF and PHP, he can be found enjoying great food and wine, as well as hiking around Austin's greener areas with his wife, Jenny, and chocolate labrador, Belle.
Kevin Schroeder Zend Technologies
Kevin Schroeder, Technology Evangelist for Zend Technologies, is well versed in a wide variety of technologies pertinent to both small and large scale application deployments. He has developed production software using a wide variety of languages including PHP, Java (standalone and web-based applications), Javascript, HTML, SQL, Perl, Visual Basic, ASP and occasionally C. His software development experience is accompanied with extensive experience as system administrator on platforms including Linux, Solaris and Windows on scales of a single server up to several hundred servers on installations that range from a few to millions of users. He has spoken at several conferences and is also the co-author of “The IBM i Programmer’s Guide to PHP” and author of “You want to do WHAT with PHP?”. In his spare time he races Ferraris, with a dismal win record in his Honda. He can be found online athttp://www.eschrade.com/ speaking in the first person.
Alan Seiden Strategic Business Systems
Alan Seiden helps companies implement PHP- and Zend Framework-based solutions, especially on IBM i. He is senior developer and consultant at Strategic Business Systems, Inc., a New Jersey-based partner of IBM and Zend.
An early adopter of PHP-based web applications on the IBM i, Alan was a charter member of IBM/COMMON’s PHP Advisory Board and served as a consultant for the IBM manual PHP: Zend Core for i5/OS.
In 2009, Alan’s work was honored with the IBM/COMMON Power Systems Innovation Award for “Best Web Application,” for Allied Beverage Group’s e-commerce site, developed with the team at Strategic Business Systems, using PHP and Zend Framework on IBM i.
He has spoken at many conferences and meetings, including Northeast System i User Groups, New York PHP, Long Island System User Group, Chicago OMNI, and ZendCon, delivering what one participant called "an upbeat message about what we can accomplish."
More: http://www.alanseiden.com/about/
Elizabeth Marie Smith OmniTI
Elizabeth has been using PHP since time immemorial (PHP 4 beta), but has used PHP 5 for so long now that she’s forgotten how she ever got by without SPL and a real object model.
Elizabeth is a certifiable (yes, we mean men in white coats are going to put her in a straight jacket) Windows geek; She enjoys doing very perverse things to Windows using PHP.
She works at OmniTI writing code even though she went to college for an English degree. If you see her in person, ask how she wound up with a career in computers.
Elizabeth is a charter member of PHPWomen.org and wants to make sure other women have the same opportunity to see how much fun programming can be. She is active in several PHP projects, including PHP-GTK and the Cairo PECL extension.
Dave Stokes Oracle
Dave Stokes is a MySQL Community Manager and has used MySQL for 16 years. Previously he was the Certification Manager for MySQL and has a long history of promoting open source software.
Shawn Stratton Discovery Communications, Inc.
Shawn Stratton is a software engineer for Discovery Communications, Inc working on the HowStuffWorks.com platform in Atlanta, GA. Shawn happens to be a Zend Certified Engineer for PHP 5 and PHP 5.3 and has been working with PHP since sometime in 2001. Shawn stays active in the Atlanta PHP user group and can be found lurking in various IRC rooms.
Joshua Thijssen Enrise
Joshua Thijssen is a senior software engineer and trainer at Enrise
and owner of the privately held company NoxLogic. His daily work
consists of maintaining code bases, working on high scalability projects
and helping other to achieve higher standards in both coding and thinking.
He is currently certified as a Zend PHP5, PHP5.3, Zend Framework, LPIC1,
LPIC2, Ubuntu, MySQL DBE & MySQL DBA.
Ligaya Turmelle MySQL/Oracle
Ligaya Turmelle is a full time Goddess, Part-time MySQL DBA, occasional PHP programmer, and obsessive world traveler. She currently lives in Yulee, Florida with her husband, daughter and their 2 Belgian Malinois. Actively involved with the PHP Community as a founding Principle of phpwomen.org, administrator at codewalkers.com, PHP blogger and long-time busy body of #phpc on freenode, she hopes to one day actually meet all the people she talks to. Now for all the letters - ZCE (4&5), CMDBA, CMDEV and MySQL Core.
Michelangelo van Dam In2IT
Michelangelo van Dam has been working with PHP since 2001 and has been caught by the fever ever since. Besides being a professional PHP web application developer and consultant for enterprises and large companies, he is also co-founder of the PHP user group PHPBenelux and a valued member of the international PHP community, elePHPant shepherd and a true PHP evangelist.
Bert Van Hauwaert be.coded
Bert Van Hauwaert (founder of be.coded) is a freelance web application developer and consultant.
During his professional career, he developed several applications for several eBay sites, made a CMS based on ZF and developed one of the biggest gaming sites in Belgium.
His focus is now on some realtime auction sites, using ZF and Doctrine2. He is never afraid to take on new challenges and likes to experiment with new technologies.
Kris Wallsmith
Kris is a member of the Symfony core team, Symfony Guru at OpenSky, and long-time advocate for simple solutions to complex problems. He works from his home office in Portland, Oregon where he and his wife raise their three young children.
Matthew Weier O´Phinney Zend Technologies
Matthew is Project Lead for Zend Framework, and has been contributing to the project since before the initial preview release. He is an advocate for Open Source Software and regularly blogs and speaks on Zend Framework and PHP best practice topics.
Christian Wenz Arrabiata Solutions GmbH
Christian Wenz is author, trainer, and consultant for web technologies. He wrote or co-wrote over six dozen books, frequently contributes to renowned IT magazines and speaks at developer conferences and user groups around the world.
Mike Willbanks CaringBridge
Mike Willbanks is a software engineer manager at CaringBridge, a nonprofit providing free websites that connect people experiencing a significant health challenge to family and friends. He has more than a decade of experience programming with PHP and MySQL. He is a Zend Certified Engineer and focuses on high availability and high performance applications.
Mike organizes the MNPHP and MN MySQL User Groups and has a passion for knowledge sharing and contributing back to the community.
Hugh Williams eBay
Hugh Williams is the Vice President of Experience, Search, and Platforms at eBay Inc. His team builds most of the user-facing components of eBay, including the home page, search experiences, motors, fashion, MyeBay, and selling flows. He is also responsible for most of eBay's platforms, including the search engine, internal developer platforms, merchandizing systems, product catalog and classification systems, paid search bidding engine, and business selling tools. Hugh was previously a development manager at Microsoft on the Bing search team, and prior to that a Professor at RMIT University in Australia. Hugh wrote the best-selling "Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL" for O'Reilly Media Inc. He has a PhD in Computer Science from RMIT University, and has published over 100 works. His interests include information retrieval, computational biology, and baseball.
Enrico Zimuel Zend Technologies
Enrico Zimuel is a Software Engineer since 1996. He works as Senior PHP Engineer at Zend Technologies, in the Zend Framework Team. He has been a Researcher Programmer at the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam. He is a frequent speaker at PHP conferences and the author of articles and books about applied cryptography and web programming. He holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science and Economics from the University \"G.D\'Annunzio\" of Pescara (Italy). He has a blog about PHP programming at http://www.zimuel.it
David Zuelke Bitextender GmbH
David Zuelke is the lead developer of the Agavi project, an open source MVC framework for PHP, and managing director at Bitextender GmbH, a Munich, Germany based software consulting company. He has been doing PHP development for more than ten years and regularly speaks at conferences around the world about lovely topics like HTTP, REST, CouchDB, MapReduce and, of course, PHP.
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