Advisory Board

Sebastian Bergmann has created the industry-leading testing tool PHPUnit, which has played a vital role in professionalizing software development with PHP. Sebastian shares his comprehensive experience in publications and through presentations. As Co-Founder and Principal Consultant of The PHP Consulting Company (thePHP.cc), he helps teams with introducing PHPUnit, making better use of PHPUnit, improving development processes, and writing code that is easier to test. In his free time, Sebastian contributes to Open Source, plays board games, and enjoys retrocomputing with his Amiga 1200.

When not working on smartmessages.net and supporting 1CRM, Marcus Bointon is the maintainer of PHPMailer, a Top Ten PHP project on GitHub, and probably the world’s most popular email sending code. He’s a contributor to many other open-source projects, and wrote the WHATWG HTML5 email address specification. He’s an accomplished Linux sysadmin and MySQL DBA, providing performance, scalability and security consulting, and a technical writer and pentester for Radically Open Security. He’s spoken at technical conferences in the UK, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, the USA and Canada. He lives in the French alps with his wife and kids, where he can indulge his passions for skiing and mountain biking.