Damien Seguy

Alterway Consulting

Damien Seguy contribue à PHP et MySQL depuis 1999 : promotion, documentation, création de groupes d'utilisateurs locaux ainsi que la participation aux conférences et la rédaction d'articles techniques.

M. Seguy est rédacteur en chef du magazine francophone Direction|PHP (www.directionphp.biz), et du portail technique www.nexen.net. Il publie des statistiques mensuelles sur PHP. Il travaille comme expert PHP et MySQL à Nexen Services, Paris / Montraél, une compagnie d'hébergement et de services spécialisée en Open Source.

M. Seguy est un fondateur de l'AFUP (http://www.afup.org) et co-fondateur de PHP Québec (http://www.phpquebec.com/), qui organisent des conférences reconnues à Paris et Montréal. Il est aussi auteur de 3 livres consacrés à PHP et MySQL, du premier DVD consacré à PHP, et co-auteur de la certification PHP. Il contribue à la traduction française des documentations PHP et MySQL.

Eric David Benari

Consultant

One sunny day some years ago Eric David Benari discovered PHP3 and on that very day in one fell swoop he left ASP2.0 and Perl-via-CGI to find their permanent resting place alongside the ENIAC and Commodore 64.

Since that time Eric has been developing innovative ways for businesses to rapidly increase their revenue with minimal investment by utilizing open-source solutions combined with breakthrough IT-management techniques.

Eric was the sixth person in New York State to become a Zend Certified Engineer (of PHP.) He is also a PMI-Certified Project Management Professional, MySQL 5.0 Certified Developer, MySQL 5.0 Certified DBA and Certified Internet Webmaster Associate. He has been invited to speak at New York University (NYU), Yeshiva University, Stern College as well as various IT conferences and has written articles for PHP Architect on security, e-commerce, accessibility & IT best-practices.

Zoe Slattery

IBM

Zoe has worked for IBM for twenty years. In 2007 she started to contribute to PHP by developing test cases for PHP. Writing, and encouraging other people to write test cases, is still her primary interest.

Andrei Zmievski

Andrei Zmievski is Chief Architect at Outspark Inc, where he is working on a technology platform for building an online playground with free video games and engaging communities. In the past he had worked on internal tools at Yahoo! Inc., specializing in i18n and infrastructure software, such as PHP and Apache. He is also a core PHP developer, leader of the PHP-GTK project, and a co-author of “PHP Developer’s Cookbook” and Smarty templating system. His current focus is the native Unicode and i18n support in PHP.

Derick Rethans

eZ Systems

Derick Rethans 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.

Morgan Tocker

Sun Microsystems

Morgan Tocker is a Technical Instructor at MySQL, teaching courses on Database Administration, Performance Tuning and High Availability. Prior to working as an instructor, Morgan worked in MySQL's support team, helping customers with issues with MySQL as well as DRBD and Heartbeat. Prior to working for MySQL, Morgan worked as a LAMP developer migrating systems from SQL Server to MySQL.

Marcus Boerger

Google

Marcus Börger is a specialist in C, C++, databases, UML, XML, and of course PHP. To the PHP community, he is also known as helly. As a core developer, he contributes a lot to PHP and focuses on the new OO features of PHP 5 and Zend Engine 2. Marcus has been hacking around on all sorts of things for over 15 years, and being an avid snowboarder, he happily accepted an offer from Google to work in their Zürich office. He can often be found snatching gummy bears from his favorite Italian pizzeria and taking photographs.

Gérald Croës

Alptis

Architecte logiciel chez Alptis, Gérald Croës s'est spécialisé dans le milieu open source où il travaille sur la qualité logicielle, la capitalisation et l'accélération des développements. Principal contributeur du framework Copix, co-traducteur de la documentation française de Smarty, il écrit ponctuellement des articles techniques dans la presse informatique.

Chris Shiflett

OmniTI

Chris Shiflett is the Chief Technology Officer of OmniTI, where he leads the web application security practice and guides web development initiatives.
Chris is a thought leader in the PHP and web application security communities—a widely-read blogger at shiflett.org, a popular speaker at industry conferences worldwide, and the founder of the PHP Security Consortium.
His books include the critically-acclaimed Essential PHP Security (O'Reilly) and HTTP Developer's Handbook (Sams). His writing has also appeared in a number of other popular books including Programming PHP (O'Reilly), PHP Cookbook (O'Reilly), and PHP in Action (Manning).

Kuassi Mensah

Oracle Corporation

Kuassi Mensah is Senior Manager of Product Management, for Oracle Database Access and Programming Interfaces
which includes Java, JDBC, OCI, PHP, Ruby, Python and Perl.
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.
He maintains a blog @ http://db360.blogspot.com

Philip Tellis

Yahoo!

Philip Tellis is a geek who likes to make the computer do his work for him. As part of his job with the Exceptional Performance team at Yahoo! he analyses the impact of various design decisions on web application performance. He also maintains the javascript implementation of strftime used in YUI and plays around with security, accessibility and i18n. He is also the maintainer of several opensource projects including ayttm and libyahoo2.

In his spare time, Philip enjoys cycling, reading, cooking and learning spoken languages.

Clint Oram

SugarCRM

Clint Oram

Vice President, Sugar Open Source Community Relations, Co-Founder

Clint Oram is one of three co-founders of SugarCRM and co-led the product design and development as well as the customer services team through the first year of business. He is now responsible for managing relations with the Sugar Open Source community, including developer relations and Sugar's community web site properties. Previously, Clint managed SugarCRM's European operations, located in Dublin, Ireland.

Clint's 12 years in enterprise software experience spans product management, professional services and software engineering. Prior to co-founding SugarCRM, Clint worked at E.piphany, Octane Software, Hewlett Packard and PG&E.

Sara Golemon

Yahoo! Inc.

Sara Golemon is the front-end Architect for Yahoo! Web Search in Santa Clara, California. She has worked on most parts of the PHP runtime at one point or another and has contributed several extensions to both PECL and the core distribution. Sara also works on other OSS software such as libssh2 and has been published in php|Architect, PHP5 Unleashed, and Extending and Embedding PHP.

Chris Hartjes

XMLTeam Solutions

Chris Hartjes has been building PHP applications of all sizes and types since 1998, ranging from small personal blogs to large adult dating web sites.

Currently employed as a Software Engineer for XML Team Solutions (http://www.xmlteam.com), he also contributes to the CakePHP web application framework (http://www.cakephp.org), speaks at conferences on programming-related topics, and tries to share what he's learned via his blog (http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard).

He lives in Milton, Ontario, Canada with his long-suffering wife, two kids and two cats.

Alexander Mette

TikiWiki CMS/Groupware

Alexander 'amette' Mette is a long time member of the TikiWiki community. He has a M.Sc. Degree in Commercial Information Technology and is currently Lead System Administrator at LivingLogic AG, a software service provider with a product range of its own, concentrating on web content management systems.

In the TikiWiki community he has been release manager and is a member of the security squad. Community organization and governance are the major non-technical interests besides coding and server infrastructure.

At his day job Alexander Mette is responsible for the design and maintenance of several server farms, one of them being a completely redundant high-availability setup consisting of Linux web- and application-servers, Oracle Real Application Cluster on Windows, Netscreen firewalls and Foundry loadbalancers.

The lessons learned from such ventures he used in his spare time to design and implement the new virtualized server infrastructure for the TikiWiki community with robustness and scalability in mind.

Stefan Priebsch

e-novative GmbH

Stefan Priebsch is the founder and CEO of e-novative GmbH, one of the first German IT consultancies to offer PHP-based solutions. He holds a degree in computer science and is author of various books and technical articles. When not helping customers to make better use of PHP, he likes to play the electrical guitar and cook. Stefan blogs about PHP and his life in general at http://www.priebsch.de.

Eric Farrar

Sybase

Eric Farrar graduated from the University in Waterloo in Computer Engineering. He has worked in many industries including Wall Street financial (Morgan Stanley), automated manufacturing technology (Automation Tooling Systems Inc), and information technology (Platform Solutions Inc). He is presently a Product Manager at Sybase iAnywhere.

Philippe Gamache

Sensio Labs Canada

Philippe is the co-author of a PHP security book call "Sécurité PHP 5 et MySQL 5". Frequent speaker, he is a trainer for Sensio Labs; training peoples on symfony and PHP security. And when he have time, adding many new security features to symfony.

Raphaël Rougeron

Linagora GSO

Raphaël Rougeron est développeur web senior au sein du groupe Linagora, leader français des logiciels libres. Expert PHP, il participe notamment au développement d'OBM, un logiciel Open Source de travail collaboratif à destination des entreprises. Il a auparavant travaillé pour la Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris, pour laquelle il a développé de nombreuses applications métier en PHP. Il est également le créateur du framework Stato, et contribue activement à différents projets Open Source. Il écrit régulièrement des articles pour le magazine PHPSolutions et a donné quelques conférences autour de PHP et des méthodes agiles.

Owen Byrne

Travelpod.com

Owen Byrne has been programming in C++, Perl, PHP and Python for over 20 years for various companies and universities in Canada, and done a variety of other things including a brief stint as a university professor. In 2004 he was co-founder and original developer of digg.com. Currently he is a senior manager at Ottawa-based Travelpod.com, where he is leading a crack team of PHP developers building a large travel-related application set to launch early in 2009. He has 3 university degrees and an ABD from 3 different Canadian universities. He has presented at a variety of conferences, including O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Expo, UIUC's Reflections/Projection, and the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada.

Matthew Weier O'Phinney

Zend Technologies, Ltd

Matthew Weier O'Phinney is Software Architect for Zend Framework. He speaks at conferences and user groups regularly on Zend Framework and best practices related topics. He has written numerous articles for the Zend Developer Zone (http://devzone.zend.com/), co-authored SitePoint's second edition of "The PHP Anthology," and served as technical editor for php|architect's "Guide to Programming with Zend Framework", The Pragmatic Programmer's "Rails for PHP Developers," and Manning Press' "Zend Framework in Action." When not in front of a keyboard, you can find Matthew at home in Vermont with his family. His blog can be found at http://weierophinney.net/matthew/.

Patrice Caron

Patrice Caron est un programmeur analyste de formation et dès sa première année d'études présente un fort intérêt pour les technologies Internet ainsi que la sécurité. Très rapidement, il s'intéresse aux technologies tournant autour de Linux, Apache, PHP, aux protocoles d'échanges, aux formats ouvert ainsi qu'aux technologies Web émergentes.

Au cours de ses années d'expérience professionnelle, monsieur Caron a œuvré au sein d'organismes gouvernementaux et d'entreprises privées dans des domaines et environnement variés. Ses divers expériences lui ont permis de renforcer ses connaissances au niveau de nombreuses technologies, et ceci tant au niveau des télécommunications, la VOIP, des systèmes d'exploitation, des bases de données, de la programmation Web, de la gestion de parc informatique ainsi que de la sécurité. Aujourd'hui, le travail de monsieur Caron se tourne de plus en plus vers l'architecture intégration de services orienté sur le Web ainsi que sur l'évalution et l'expérimentation de solution.

En plus d'être co-fondateur de PHP Québec, Patrice Caron est impliqué dans divers communautés et projets touchant le domaine du logiciel libre, comme plus récemment, la Conférence sur les logiciels libres et les administrations publiques (www.cllap.qc.ca).

John Coggeshall

Automotive Computer Services

John Coggeshall is Chief Technology Officer of Automotive Computer Services, providing cutting-edge software solutions to car dealerships nationwide. A former senior member of Zend Technologies' Global Services team, 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.

Ilia Alshanetsky

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.

Fabien Potencier

Sensio Labs

Fabien Potencier is a serial entrepreneur. 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. Fabien is the lead developer of the symfony framework. Today, Fabien spends most of his time as Sensio's CEO and as the symfony project leader.

Fabien POTENCIER

Sensio Labs

Fabien Potencier is a serial entrepreneur. 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. Fabien is the lead developer of the symfony framework. Today, Fabien spends most of his time as Sensio's CEO and as the symfony project leader.