Sébastien Brodeur

Fédération des Caisses Populaire du Québec

Je suis un conseiller en développement chez Desjardins depuis 4 ans. Je programme en PHP, MySQL, JavaScript (AJAX) et JSP.

Dernièrement j'ai suivis une formation en analyse web, discipline à mis chemin entre les TI et le Marketing.

J'écris aussi des articles sur le PHP.

Zak Greant

Foo Associates

Zak Greant's love of Free Software and Open Source is turning him into a penguin. The only visible changes (so far) are a gradual accumulation of blubber, a loss of hair (which he hopes is the prelude to feather growth) and a growing preference for raw fish.

When not practicing how to waddle or wear a tuxedo, he passes the time by running the Foo Associates strategic consultancy and by working with various Free Software and Open Source projects and companies such as the Mozilla Foundation and eZ Systems.

Mike Potter

Adobe Systems

Mike Potter has been developing Web sites and Web applications for more than eight years. He has extensive experience with PHP, having created the Web site for the largest amateur sporting organization in Canada, the Canadian Curling Association. After developing that site, he went to work for OEone, where he helped build a Linux based desktop that ran inside the Mozilla Web browser and ran the Mozilla Calendar Project. Mike joined Adobe in 2005 and is now working in Developer Relations as an evangelist for open source and Web developers.

Derick Rethans

eZ Systems

Derick Rethans provides solutions for Internet related problems. He has contributed in a number of ways to the PHP project, including the mcrypt, date and input-filter extensions, bug fixes, additions and leading the QA team. He now works as project leader for the eZ components project for eZ systems A.S.. In his spare time he likes to work on Xdebug, watch movies, travel and practice photography.

Stoyan Stefanov

Yahoo! Inc

Stoyan Stefanov is a Yahoo! engineer doing research, writing articles, and building tools for improving web pages' performance. He's the lead developer of YSlow, Yahoo's performance lint tool. Prior to Yahoo!, Stoyan employers include SAP Labs Canada (Montreal) and High-Touch Communications (Montreal).
Stoyan (phpied.com) is also a co-author of books about PEAR and phpBB, and numerous articles for the International PHP Magazine and SitePoint.com. He's also the author of "AJAX:Getting started" at Mozilla Developer Center.

Robert Nicholson

IBM

Rob Nicholson is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM responsible for language runtime architecture. Currently he is working on Project Zero with responsibility for the architecture of the IBM's runtime for PHP running on the Java Virtual Machine.

Chris Shiflett

OmniTI

Chris Shiflett is a principal of OmniTI, where he leads the web application security practice. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed Essential PHP Security (O'Reilly) and HTTP Developer's Handbook (Sams), and he maintains a popular PHP and web application security blog at shiflett.org.

Sebastian Bergmann

sebastian-bergmann.de

Sebastian Bergmann is the developer of PHPUnit and a long-time contributor to various PHP projects, including PHP itself. In his free time he likes to hack on Open Source software and to take photographs, preferably while travelling the world.

Karsten Dambekalns

TYPO3 Association

Karsten Dambekalns, born in 1977, learned the basics of web technology the hard way, by looking at other website's HTML source code, after having finally switched to Linux from OS/2 and Windows. All this happened after having learned BASIC and Assembler on a good old Commodore C128...

He co-founded fishfarm netsolutions at the end of 2000, parallel to studying Media Science and Computer Science at the Technical University at Braunschweig, one of the German Institutes of Technology. This was were he met his future business partner while working with a team on a web-centric project. During his studies he introduced students to the differences between PHP and Java for web application development and implemented a small XML-driven content management system for the website of his faculty.

Karsten discovered TYPO3 in 2002 and got caught by it's immense possibilities. Having worked with TYPO3 for over a year Karsten joined the TYPO3 snowboard conference in 2004, only to use the newly knit web of contacts to become the driving force behind the actual implementation of a long planned database abstraction layer for TYPO3. Now he is part of the TYPO3 5.0 development team and an active member of the TYPO3 Association.

Karsten mostly lives in Braunschweig, Germany with his wife L?ga, two kids and a nameless espresso machine.

Lukas Smith

Liip

Lukas Smith is a well known contributor to the PEAR and PHP project. He labels himself the "personal secretary of all PHP release managers" maintaining the unofficial official release wiki for the PHP project. He is also active in the database community, particular inside the MySQL and PostgreSQL community. As a result he was a founding member of the Open Source Database Consortium. He has given talks at various international conferences and published articles in print magazines. He also frequently does tech reviews for numerous book publishers. He is employed at Liip.ch, a company focused on providing state of the art web based solutions for clients looking for pushing the limits.

Jagadeesan Balakrishnan

interexa AG

I am Balakrishnan, 27 years old, Male from India.

I did Bachelor of Engineering in Computer science from Bharathiar University, India and hold Masters degree in Computer Visualistics from O-v-G Universität Magdeburg, Germany.

I have passion towards software development, particularly using PHP since my studies. I did freelancing in PHP for various web applications during my Masters degree and did thesis under the topic "Conception and Implementation of Web Analysis for the Web Navigation" in PHP.

Since after my graduation in Germany, I was working as a PHP developer at M-Bis GmbH, Germany. After working there for 2 years, I had much interest towards Risk Management concepts and hence moved to Interexa AG, Germany on 2004. Interexa specializes in risk management with regard to the controlling of operational risks according to Basel II and counts among its clients the lion part of the top 30 banks in Germany.

To enhance the product and the risk management strategies using PHP in India, I decided to freelance from my home country (India) and as a long term plan, to establish a software company that'll mainly concentrate on using PHP in Risk Management applications. Hence I moved to India on February 2007 and since then, I have been working as Freelancer for the same German company, Interexa AG.

Raphael Rougeron

Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris

Je développe en PHP depuis 8 ans, et après un passage par la fac de sciences puis par Gobelins, l'école de l'image, où j'ai eu l'occasion de travailler sur l'interaction en Flash et PHP, j'ai atterri à la CCIP. Mon projet le plus important a été de développer
une version électronique du TEF (Test d'Evaluation de Français, reconnu par le CIC : Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada), qui consiste en un client Flash faisant appel à un serveur d'examens en PHP, et surtout en un système d'information complexe (lui aussi en PHP) pour gérer à la fois la banque de questions du test, en faire l'analyse psychométrique, gérer les résultats et attestations des candidats, etc... En dehors de ce projet qui a duré 3 ans, j'ai développé diverses applis à usage interne ainsi que plusieurs gros sites web institutionnels (bien sûr toujours en PHP). Je pense être un utilisateur très avancé de PHP (je n'ose pas dire expert), particulièrement compétent en OOP et services
web. J'ai été formateur à Gobelins sur Flash, XML et RubyOnRails, et je suis également l'auteur de plusieurs articles dans le magazine PHP Solutions, notamment sur l'ORM et le MVC. Enfin, j'ai été sélectionné pour présenter 2 sessions au prochain Forum PHP à Paris en novembre 2007.

Rob Richards

Local Thunder

Robert Richards is currently the IT Development Manager for Local Thunder, an application service provider assisting broadcast and print media companies in developing and deploying localization revenue and brand strategies on the Internet. Prior to this, he worked as an independent contractor for a number of years developing software in numerous fields including Telecommunications, Medical and Insurance. He is a one of the authors and maintainers of a number of the XML extensions in PHP, as well as a maintainer of the windows port and contributer tor the libxml2 library for the Gnome project. Rob also occasionally writes articles for various publications on the use of XML and web services in PHP and is also the author of Pro PHP XML and Web Services.

Philippe Gamache

MOBIVOX

Philippe Gamache, dans ses temps libres, est fondateur de Parler Haut, Interagir Librement, une entreprise qui se spécialise dans la conception, l'hébergement et l'animation de communautés virtuelles. Pour ce faire, il est aussi l'initiateur d'un logiciel libre de gestion de communauté en PHP, appelé PHIL-IP. Un des axes de développement dur projet est la sécurité. Il participe aussi à plusieurs autres projets de logiciels libres, particulièrement reliés à l'internalisation et la sécurité des projets. Il est aussi coauteur du livre "Sécurité PHP 5 et MySQL 5".

Damien Seguy

Nexen Services

Damien Seguy est fondateur de Nexen Services, spécialisée dans l'hébergement Open Source, où il dirige les services d'expertise et d'architecture LAMP.

Il est aussi un intervenant fréquent dans les conférences PHP et MySQL du monde entier et le co-phpère de la mascotte PHP en peluche. Damien est un fondateur de l'AFUP (http://www.afup.org) et de PHP Québec (http://www.phpquebec.com/) , qui organisent des conférences incontournables à Paris et Montréal. Il est aussi l'auteur de trois livres consacrés à PHP, du premier DVD PHP, et co-auteur des certifications Zend PHP. Il contribue à la promotion des technologies LAMP auprès des entreprises et institutions.

Stefan Priebsch

e-novative GmbH

Stefan Priebsch has been solving IT problems for over 20 years. He is founder of e-novative GmbH, a German IT consultancy focussing on open source and PHP-related topics. Stefan holds a university degree in computer science, is an internationally recognized PHP expert, speaker at PHP conferences, book author and regularly publishes articles in professional journals. You can reach him at stefan.priebsch@e-novative.de.

Jeff Griffiths

ActiveState

Jeff Griffiths has been hacking with PHP for 8 years and thinks he just might be starting to get the hang of it. In his day job he is in charge of community support at ActiveState. By night Jeff is either hacking PHP, active in the local Vancouver electronic music scene, or rocking out with Guitar Hero 2.

Marc Wandschneider

Marc Wandschneider is a freelance software developer and author who travels the globe working on interesting projects. He has worked for Microsoft on developer tools and has most recently been writing and releasing various tidbits of PHP/Ajax code and Mac OS X applications for free public consumption.

In recent years, a lot of his attention has been focused on writing robust and scalable web applications, and in 2005 he wrote a book called "Core Web Application Programming with PHP and MySQL". He was was previously the main developer of the SWiK (http://swik.net) open source community site.

Marc currently lives in Beijing where he spends his time mangling the Chinese language and programming.

Jay Pipes

MySQL, Inc

Jay Pipes is the North American Community Relations Manager at MySQL. Co-author of Pro MySQL (Apress, 2005), Jay has also written articles for Linux Magazine and regularly assists software developers in identifying how to make the most effective use of MySQL. He has given sessions on performance tuning at the MySQL Users Conference, RedHat Summit, NY PHP Conference, OSCON, and Ohio LinuxFest, amongST others. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife, Julie, and his four animals. In his abundant free time, when not being pestered by his two needy cats and two noisy dogs, he daydreams in PHP code and ponders the ramifications of __clone().

Eli White

digg.com

Eli is an internet programmer with over 12 years of experience. The last 8 of those have been spent almost exclusively with PHP programming. He has worked a number of jobs, spending 6 years working on the Hubble Space Telescope project, and for the last couple years has been working as a PHP Hacker for digg.com. He also co-authored the book 'PHP 5 in Practice', and has presented at numerous conferences.

Fabien Potencier

Sensio Labs

Fabien Potencier is a serial entrepreneur. Since he was ten, he always dreamed of creating and running companies. In 1998, right after graduation, Fabien founded his very first company with a fellow student. The company was a web agency focused on simplicity and Open-Source technologies, and was called Sensio. His acute technical knowledge and his endless curiosity won him the confidence of many French big corporate companies. While Sensio kept growing, Fabien started other businesses. Fabien is also the main developer of the symfony framework and is responsible for 95% of its code. Today, Fabien spends most of his time as Sensio?s CEO and as the symfony project leader.

Benoit Marchand

Bell Solutions Web

Benoit Marchand est Gestionnaire de Pratique PHP chez Bell Canada, dans le groupe Solutions Web. Benoit à travaillé dans plusieurs agences et compagnies web de la région de Montréal, et possède une dizaine d'années d'expérience dans les technologies internet.

Ilia Alshanetsky

Advanced Internet Designs Inc.

Ilia Alshanetsky the principal of Advanced Internet Designs Inc., company specializing in security auditing, performance analysis and application development. He is an active member of the PHP's quality assurance team with hundreds of bug fixes to his name as well as a sizeable num-ber of performance tweaks and features. Ilia is a regular speaker at-PHP related conferences worldwide, an author of Guide to PHP Security as well as many magazine publications. He also maintains an active blog at http://ilia.ws filled tips and tricks on how to get the most out of PHP.

Robert Bernier

Robert is a consultant and an active member of the PostgreSQL community. He has written extensively for publications such as Sys-Admin, Hakin9, PHP-MAG and for the O'Reilly webportal http://www.oreillynet.com. Robert is the the maintainer of pg_live, a Linux live CD distro designed to profile PostgreSQL for first time users.

David Sklar

Ning, Inc.

David Sklar is a Software Architect at Ning, Inc., and the author of PHP Cookbook (O'Reilly), Learning PHP 5 (O'Reilly), and Essential PHP Tools (Apress). He speaks regularly at many conferences, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, USENIX, and various PHP conferences. He keeps a blog at http://www.sklar.com/blog/ and maintaings the PX (http://px.sklar.com/), a PHP code exchange he created in 1996. David has a degree in Computer Science from Yale University and lives in New York City, where he enjoys riding the subway, eating salt-baked scallops, and admiring the 18th- and 19th-century American furniture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Morgan Tocker

MySQL AB

Morgan Tocker is a Support Engineer at MySQL AB. Originally from Australia, he moved to Montreal in 2007 'for the weather', and a year later appears to still be here.

At MySQL, Morgan works as part of a distributed team, providing 'follow the sun' 24x7 Support to customers. Morgan has also worked on various projects as a LAMP developer, including a 12 month migration from SQL Server to MySQL.

Marcus Boerger

Google

Marcus Börger is a freelancer located in Germany and is specialized on C/C++, Databases, UML, XML and of course PHP. To the PHP community he is also known as helly. He is one of the core developers and focused on the new OO features of PHP 5 and Zend Engine 2. Marcus 'hacks' around on all kinds of stuff for over 15 years now and after being a freelancer for a couple of years now works
for Google.

Kitman Cheung

IBM

Kitman Cheung works on the product management team for DB2 with a specific focus on Linux / Open Source positioning. From that perspective, Kitman is responsible for driving the requirements and trends of the open source community into the DB2 UDB family of products.

John Coggeshall

Zend Technologies

John Coggeshall is the leader of Zend Technologies' Professional Services in North America, where he provides professional services to clients across the country (and sometimes beyond). He got started with PHP in 1997 and is the author of three published books and over 100 articles on PHP technologies with some of the biggest names in the industry such as Sams Publishing, Apress and O'Reilly. John also is a active contributor to the PHP core as the author of the tidy extension, a member of the Zend Education Advisory Board, and frequent speaker at PHP-related conferences worldwide. His web site, http://www.coggeshall.org/ is an excellent resource for any PHP developer.

Louis-Philippe Huberdeau

Consultation L-P Huberdeau

Louis-Philippe utilise PHP depuis plusieurs années et se spéialise dans le dévelopement d'outils interne pour effectuer de la gestion de données. Dans le passé, il a travaillé dans l'industrie aérospatiale, oû il a développé des solutions pour supporter les différentes tâches d'ingénierie et la gestion des publications techniques. Il travaille présentement à son compte.

Kuassi Mensah

Oracle

Kuassi Mensah is Group Product Manager at Oracle Corporation. He leads the product management team for JDBC, Java in the database, PHP, Ruby on Rails, and Python, He joined Oracle France in 1989 as system and database performance expert then took over the Centre of Expertise specializing in application architecture and database performance. In 1999, he moved to Oracle headquarters within the Oracle's Advanced Technology group. Mr Mensah holds a MS and post graduate in Computer Sciences from the Programming Institute of University of Paris VI. He is is a frequent speaker at industry events and has published several articles and a book on Java in the Database, JDBC, and Web Services.