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Thomas Bachem sevenload
Thomas Bachem (21) built up sevenload GmbH as Head of Technology together with his team and has to deal with development and technology management in every day business. He is an active developer since 1998 and loves not only talking about code but also writing it on his own. Currently constructing a very complex SOA-based platform architecture, he is concerned with many topics of large web applications and scaling - where scaling does not only mean the application but a whole company and development team.
Sebastian Bergmann thePHP.cc
Sebastian Bergmann holds a degree in Computer Science and is a pioneer in the field of quality assurance in PHP projects. His test framework PHPUnit is a de-facto standard. He is actively involved in the development of PHP and creator of various development tools. Sebastian Bergmann is an internationally sought-after expert. As an author he shares his long-standing experience in books and articles. He is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world.
Jens Paul Berndt BERNDT, Beratungs- und Dienstleistungsges. für Handwerk & Mittelstand mbH
Jens Paul Berndt (37) ist founder and CEO of BERNDT GmbH, that delivers business critical enterprise solutions since ten years. Besides software architecture and finding simple solutions for complex project definitions he assits corporate clients to make agile development work.
Arne Blankerts thePHP.cc
Arne Blankerts is a co-founder and Principal Consultant with thePHP.cc and head of development at Ballyhoo advertising agency in Hamburg, Germany. Furthermore he offers security consulting and training with thePHP.cc, is a regular author writing articles for the German PHP Magazine, php|architekt and others. Arne is the inventor and lead developer of an open source site system called "fCMS" (http://fcms.de) and in the unusual case of spare time he helps maintaining the German translation of the PHP manual.
Bernd Blümel FH-Bochum
Bernd Blümel received a Diploma degree in mathematics and his PhD in economic science.
He has several years practical experience as software developer, requirement and business analyst.
Since 1991 he is Professor of information management. Since 1999 he is at the university of applied sciences of Bochum
Martin Buchmann Adobe Systems GmbH
Martin Buchman is Business Development Manager at Adobe Systems GmbH and responsible for Enterprise- and Developer Products. Back in 2001 he started as Senior Sales Engineer at Macromedia, consulting customers and business partners for the best use of technology.
Karsten Dambekalns
Karsten Dambekalns, born in 1977, learnt the basics of web technology the hard way, by looking at other website's HTML source code.
Karsten discovered TYPO3 in 2002 and got caught by it's immense possibilities. Now he is part of the TYPO3 5.0 development team and an active member of the TYPO3 Association.
Karsten lives in Braunschweig, Germany with his wife Liga, two kids and a nameless espresso machine.
Stefan Esser SektionEins GmbH
Stefan Esser is an independent Security Consultant that is well known in the security community for his advisories about popular Open Source Software packages like Linux, NetBSD, Samba, Cyrus IMAPD, Gaim, Ethereal, CVS, Subversion, MySQL, and PHP.
He is also known as the first who completely broke the DRM of the Microsoft XBOX with software only exploits.
Stefan contributes to the source code of PHP for 5 years and was a founding member of php.net's Security Response Team until he retired from it in the end of 2006. Because of his indepth knowledge of the PHP source code, he is an excellent auditor for PHP web applications, with a background knowledge that is unique in the PHP community.
Bastian Feder Liip Ag
Facinated by PHP since several years Bastian Feder supports the PHP documentation team by translating the SQLite manual into german. As a regluar speaker at several international and national conferences and freelancing author he concentrates on topics like the Eclipse PDT IDE, Javascript, and the jQuery Javascript library. Being an opensource addict he supports and attends opensource projects as FluentDOM and cariceaCachegrind.
Zak Greant Foo Associates Inc.
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 the Mozilla Foundation, eZ Systems and various other Free Software and Open Source projects and companies.
Sascha Manuel Hameister App Aware
Sascha Hameister is a iPhone software developer at his own company App Aware, Berlin. Besides he is using ColdFusion and PHP for developing web applications. At conferences, he is usually speaking about the development of modern software.
Johann-Peter Hartmann Mayflower GmbH, SektionEins GmbH
Johann-Peter Hartmann is founder of the PHP support enterprise ThinkPHP, CTO of Mayflower GmbH and CEO of the web application security startup SektionEins GmbH. He has been speaker at several conferences and published several articles in the area of PHP and security. He is responsible for the PHP and web 2.0 security scanner Chorizo! and contributed to the security of well known PHP tools.
Max Horváth studiVZ Ltd.
Max Horváth has been actively involved in web development for the past 10 years. He has worked with entrepreneurs, programmers, and designers to create web projects for large and small companies. Max Horváth is Quality Manager at studiVZ Ltd., one of the biggest and fastest growing Social Networks in Europe.
Andrey Hristov MySQL AB
Andrey Hristov is a Software Developer at MySQL AB where he works on mysqlnd. He is a maintainer of ext/mysql and ext/mysqli. Andrey is a PHP core developer, author of a two PECL extensions, and a OpenSource supporter. He currently lives in Stuttgart, Germany.
Lars Jankowfsky Swoodoo AG
Lars Jankowsky (38) is working as CTO at Swoodoo GmbH and responsible for the PHP-based Flight Searchengine and also Technology Evangelist for OXID eSales AG. He is developing web applications for more than 15 years now and is using PHP since the early days.
Besides software development the supervising of teams by eXtreme Programming is one of his passions.
Frank Kleine 1&1 Internet AG
Frank Kleine works as Head of Web Infrastructure for 1&1 Internet Inc, the worlds largest webhosting company. Creating web applications with PHP and with Java as well he is now lead developer for Stubbles.
Carola Kummert Dreamlab Technologies Deutschland
Carola Kummert is the Head of Education of Dreamlab Technologies Germany. She has much experience on practical programming trainings and web development. She get in contact with PHP the first time in year 2000, so she knows most of the daily programming questions and their solutions. Some of them are described in the German PHP Magazine by her regularly published articles.
Hans Lellelid Applied Security, Inc.
Hans Lellelid is manager of internet software engineering at Applied Security, Inc. where he still finds time to design and implement custom web applications for secure enterprise communication and collaboration. Hans has been developing applications with PHP for 9 years and has been project lead for the open-source Phing, Propel, and Creole projects, in addition to smaller open-source contributions (such as the Net_GeoIP PEAR package). He spends what scraps of spare time remain trying to jump over logs on his mountain bike -- and sometimes succeeding.
Robert Lemke TYPO3 Association
Robert Lemke is the lead developer of TYPO3 CMS and founding developer of the FLOW3 application framework. He is passionate about clean code and found his personal mission in bringing successful development and architecture techniques from other programming languages to the PHP world.
He works full-time for the non-profit TYPO3 Association and lives in Lübeck, Germany, together with his wife, his daughter and Vibiemme, their espresso machine.
Robert Nicholson IBM
Rob works in the language technology group at IBM\'s Hursley Lab in the UK. He leads the design for the PHP runtime component of \"Project Zero\". Rob is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member.
Kore Nordmann Qafoo GmbH
In 2010 Kore Nordmann will receive a master's degree in Computer Science (University). During his studies he worked as a developer and software architect at eZ Systems, the manufacturer of the leading enterprise open source CMS. In addition, he is developing and/or maintaining various open source projects, such as Zeta Components, Arbit, WCV, Image_3D, PHPUnit and others. For several years, Kore is a regular speaker on national and international conferences and has published several books and articles. He offers consulting as a partner in the Qafoo GmbH - passion for software quality.
Matthew Peters IBM UK Limited
Matthew Peters is a software engineer for IBM at its development laboratory in Hursley, England. He is currently a developer on the Service Component Architecture for PHP project. Previously he worked on the Service Data Objects project on PECL. Matthew has a long history of software development, going back through the ages of Java, C, and as far back into computing prehistory as PL/I and assembler on the IBM mainframe.
Fabien Potencier Sensio
Fabien Potencier discovered the Web in 1994, at a time when connecting to the Internet was still associated with the harmful strident sounds of a modem. Being a developer by passion, he immediately started to build websites with Perl. But with the release of PHP 5, he decided to switch focus to PHP, and created the symfony framework project in 2004 to help his company leverage the power of PHP for its customers.
Fabien is a serial-entrepreneur, and among other companies, he created Sensio, a services and consulting company specialized in web technologies and Internet marketing, in 1998.
Fabien is also the creator of several other Open-Source projects, a writer, a blogger, a speaker at international conferences, and a happy father of two wonderful kids.
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, book author and regularly publishes articles in professional journals. You can reach him at stefan.priebsch@e-novative.de.
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
Thorsten Rinne Mayflower GmbH
Thorsten Rinne, graduated in Computer Science, is working as senior developer/team lead for Mayflower GmbH in Munich, Germany. His main focuses are business critical reporting and Basel-II-compliant rating applications based on PHP, MySQL and PostgreSQL. He is the founder and maintainer of the open source FAQ management software phpMyFAQ. He's a Zend Certified Engineer and Certified Scrum Master. He also has spoken at various conferences around the world and he frequently writes articles for the German PHP Magazine.
Tobias Schlitt Qafoo GmbH
obias Schlitt is a qualified IT specialist and is right about to finish his studies of computer since at the university of Dortmund. He is an open source enthusiast and is involved with professional PHP application development for more then 10 years. Tobias is co-founder of Qafoo GmbH, which provides services around quality assurance in the PHP area, and works there as a consultant, trainer and developer.
Johannes Schlüter
After working as a software developer and consultant, Johannes Schlüter decided in 2006 to return to Hochschule München (Munich University of Applied Sciences) to complete his university studies. He continues to work as an independent consultant and is known as a contributor to PHP and other open source projects. He currently lives in Munich, Germany.
Stephan Schmidt 1&1 Internet AG
Stephan Schmidt is Head of Web Sales Development at 1&1 Internet AG and responsible for the development of online order processes in Java, PHP, JavaScript and XSLT as well as project management for related projects. He is author and co-author of several books published by O\'Reilly, entwickler.press and Packt Publishing. Since 2001 he is a regular speaker at international conferences and contributes to several magazines. He has a passion for software design as well as managing software teams.
Zoe Slattery IBM
Zoë Slattery is a software engineer working for IBM, her current interests are in open source development and in particular in writing tests for PHP. In the past Zoë has worked in many areas of the IT industry, she started as a FORTRAN programmer, worked on parallel systems for numerically intensive computation and managed a data archive for the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts. More recently she has managed development teams working on IBM’s JVM and on open source implementations of the Java Class libraries.
Lukas Smith Liip AG
Lukas Smith is co-release manager for the PHP 5.3 branch and speaker at various conferences around the globe. As an author of several popular open source components and the experience of 10+ years of Internet development, he works for Liip AG in Switzerland specializing in database-driven Intranet applications.
Thomas Weinert papaya Software GmbH
Thomas Weinert is Head of Development at papaya Software GmbH. He has long time experience in application development, is author of several PHP books and the developer of Weaverslave.
Dustin Whittle Yahoo! / Symfony
Dustin Whittle is a Developer Evangelist for Yahoo's Open Strategy. When he is not advocating Yahoo's Open Stack, he helps develop it through his work on the Yahoo! Developer Network and Yahoo! Application Platform. Prior to his work helping create an open Yahoo!, he has contributed to Yahoo! Answers and Delicious. When not focused on Yahoo!, he is an active open source contributor for the symfony project and is a regular speaker at technical conferences around the world.
Markus Wolff
Markus Wolff has been programming PHP since 1999. With his support, a lot of websites, intranets and database applications have been developed. Whenever there is a chance, he is working on open source projects and spread his experience at PHP conferences, in professional articles and seminars. Currently he is working as Consultant for different projects, like Jimdo.com.
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