Jonathan is the CTO at KOHO, where he helps democratize access to financial products for all Canadians. Previously he led the Storefront Engineering team at Wayfair, ran engineering
at Attend, and before that he was a senior software engineer at Etsy, where he focused on solving web performance and scalability challenges. He started the Boston Web Performance Meetup Group, and he contributes to a few open-source projects, including the HTTPArchive, WebPagetest, CSSLint, and Hound (which he co-cr
... moreeated).
Christian Wenz is an architect, consultant and author focusing on web technologies. He wrote or co-wrote over 100 books, is a fixture at international developer conferences since 2001, is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Developer Technologies since 2004, and the main author of the official Zend PHP certification.
His day job includes conducting security audits, migrating old code bases, implementing complex web applications and helping companies choose the right web strategy an
... mored web technology mix.
Jill is a freelance software developer who works on all things technical and loves it. Her main development focus has been on web applications utilizing Microsoft technologies or the LAMP stack depending on her
client's needs. Jill enjoyed her time teaching at the local college, but now is focused on teaching students via her Pluralsight courses. And, if you were wondering, Han shot first.
Reza is a cloud consultant and a Microsoft Certified Trainer alumni. He started professional software development and training over two decades ago and is passionate about cloud technologies. Reza continues to help his clients moving to the cloud and loves to share his passion for the cloud with the developers and software architects through training.
Matthew Setter is a freelance software developer, with over 10 years development experience, across three countries, and a range of industries. He specializes in a range of technologies, primarily: PHP, Zend Framework, and JavaScript. He's also a freelance technical writer, regularly creating technical blog posts, deep-dive reports, and video tutorials to help other developers learn and hone their craft. In addition to these two specialties, he is also the founder and editor of Master Zend Frame
... morework, which is dedicated to helping developers master the Zend Framework.
Annapurna is a full stack developer, who has now been playing around with Kotlin, PHP, jQuery, CSS, and HTML. She is a software engineer from India and likes teaching and has years of experience in web and mobile development. She is one of the trainers in the Google Developers Group at Bhubaneswar, Odisha in India and also the lead of the Google WomenTechMaker Group Bhubaneswar. Besides all this, she practices yoga and meditation, YouTubing, and hanging out with friends. You are definitely going
... more to get the best of quality here from her. Stay tuned and keep smiling!
Michael Van Sickle is an application architect in Akron, Ohio. He started
his career as a mechanical engineer, designing components for the automotive
industry, before changing to software engineering. He is passionate about learning new
programming languages and is comfortable working in Java, C#, JavaScript, PHP, and F#.
Mike also loves learning about user experience design
and is taking a lead role in his company's attempt to make applications that
are elegant and simple. When he i
... mores not writing code, Mike
loves to go camping and take long walks with his wife
and two girls.
Anna is a veteran Web developer. She likes elegant code, robust frameworks, lightning performance, automated testing, and timely project delivery. She has a knack for breathing new life into legacy code and teaching developers of all levels.