Speakers
Nate Abele
While many categories or activities could be used to define Nate, the best way to describe him is to simply say that Nate is. After spending 4 years developing CakePHP into the most popular PHP framework, he set out with a few other CakePHP alumni to create the next generation web framework: Lithium. While not beautifying APIs, Nate is often found snowboarding, playing guitar, being a beach bum, or writing about himself in the third person.
Sebastian Bergmann thePHP.cc
Sebastian Bergmann is a mastermind of PHP development and PHP quality assurance. He has instrumentally contributed to tranforming PHP into a reliable platform for large-scale, critical projects. Companies and PHP developers around the world benefit from the tools that he has written.
Guilherme Blanco
Guilherme Blanco was born in 09/19/1983 and lives in Brazil. He has a
bachelors degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of
São Carlos and works in the web development industry. He is currently
employed by Yahoo! and works on Meme team: http://meme.yahoo.com.
He has worked with Java, .NET and the majority of server/client side
languages and decided to pick PHP as his default development language.
He spends most of his efforts working on Open Source projects, mainly
in Doctrine Persistence Layer for PHP, which he is a contributor since
2007.
He also enjoys watching movies and playing Age of Empires in his spare time.
Arne Blankerts thePHP.cc
Arne Blankerts solves IT problems long before many companies realize that they even exist. IT security is his passion, which he attends with almost magical intuition creating solutions that clearly bear his hallmark. Companies around the world rely on his site system and
Unix-based system architectures.
Jan Burkl Zend Technologies GmbH
Since November 2006, Jan Burkl is working at Zend Technologies in Stuttgart, Germany. As System Engineer and Trainer he advised business clients in PHP based software projects and taught web developers, consultants, project leads and decision makers on the job with Zend products and development tools (Zend Studio, Zend Platform and Zend Framework) for several years. Furthermore he gave free and interactive webinars in context of the Zend PHP training courses. Now, as Senior Pre-Sales Engineer Jan gives free webinars about how to optimize PHP development and production environments or ways of improving PHP applications.
Benjamin Eberlei SimpleThings GmbH
Benjamin Eberlei is software developer at SimpleThings GmbH. In his spare time he is project lead of the Doctrine ORM team and contributes to several other open-source projects.
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.
Daniela Feuersinger echonet communication gmbh
Daniela Feuersinger ist Geschäftsführerin der Wiener Internetagentur echonet communication. Sie ist seit 10 Jahren im echo medienhaus tätig und betreut unter anderem seit 2003 das Projekt "Seniorkom.at – Internet ohne Alterslimit". Ihre Diplomarbeit "Internet für Senioren – Anspruch und Wirklichkeit seniorengerechter Webseiten" wurde beim VDM Verlag veröffentlicht. Aktuell konzentriert sich Daniela Feuersinger und echonet auf barrierefreie/arme Webportale, Web 2.0, Streaming und Mobile Lösungen. Mit der Zielgruppen-Webseite http://www.fortuna-swa.at gewann die Agentur 2009 einen Biene Award.
Johann-Peter Hartmann 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.
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.
Dominik Jungowski CHIP Xonio Online GmbH
Dominik Jungowski is a specialised computer scientiest in software development. He\'s been involved with agile development and psychology for a couple of years and is successfully using this knowledge in everyday\'s work. At the moment Dominik is an agile coach at CHIP Online and is as one of his coaching jobs the Scrum Master for the price comparison team.
Sven Kiera TWT Interactive GmbH
Sven Kiera is developer and consultant at TWT Interactive GmbH. He started with PHP and Java Programming in 1998 and is also a Zend PHP5 and Certified MySQL 5 Developer. He is author of Eclipse PHP Tool Integration (http://www.phpsrc.org).
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.
Robert Lemke
Robert Lemke is the lead developer of TYPO3 Phoenix 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. Robert works full-time for the non-profit TYPO3 Association and lives in Lübeck, Germany, together with his wife, his daughters and Vibiemme, their espresso machine.
Scott MacVicar Facebook
Scott has been lead developer of the SQLite3 and subversion extensions as well as the ImageMagick PHP wrapper. He also helped with LibGD and the core in between.
Until 2009 he was a developer at Jelsoft Enterprises in England, UK. Currently, Scott is working as Open Source Developer Advocate for Facebook, developing HipHop for PHP, a PHP-to-C++ cross-compiler.
Scott Mattocks GSN Digital
Scott Mattocks is the Web Development Lead at GSN.com. He leads a team of skilled developers in support of GSN's on-line games group. Recently, Scott helped to launch WaterSpout, a WebSocket server, with long polling fallback, written entirely in PHP. Scott is also a contributor to PEAR and is the author of "Pro PHP-GTK".
Stefan Nitzsche nitzsche.info
Stefan Nitzsche arbeitet als Gestalter, Entwickler, Berater und Autor mit über 14 Jahren Erfahrung. Er lehrt Interfacedesign an der Mediadesign Hochschule in Düsseldorf, engagiert sich bei den Webkrauts für mehr Qualität im Web, ist Mitglied des German Chapter (GC) der Usability Professional‘s Association (UPA), der Interaction Design Association (IxDA) und dem Type Directors Club (TDC).
Manuel Pichler Qafoo GmbH
Manuel Pichler is a software engineer. Beside his professional activities he is passionate about Quality Assurance. Manuel is author of phpUnderControl and PHP_depend, tools for static code analysis and for the calculation of software metrics.
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 constantly looks for better ways to build websites and he founded the Symfony project in 2004 to fullfill this goal.
Fabien is a serial-entrepreneur, and among other companies, he founded Sensio in 1998, a software company that provides products, services, and technical support for the Open-Source Symfony framework.
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.
Daniel Pötzinger AOE media
Daniel Pötzinger has more than six years of TYPO3 experience under his belt, including Core-development, and has worked on about 80 TYPO3 extensions. Within the T3 Community he is considered an expert on Core Module subjects such as TemplaVoilá, as well as Language Fallbacks, Visibility and MVC. He is a skillful hand at developing clean solutions with a particular love of elegant, easily maintained and reusable coding. Daniel is always open to new projects and development methods, such as Agile Software development.
Over the last few years since joining AOE media, Daniel has played "midwife" to more than 60 Enterprise CMS-Projects for such renowned clients as congstar, Cisco WebEx and VMware: taking care of client requirements, directing the development and installing the finished result.
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 Yatego GmbH
Thorsten Rinne, graduated in Computer Science, is working as senior developer for Yatego GmbH in Munich, Germany. He is the founder and maintainer of the open source FAQ management software phpMyFAQ. He is a Zend Certified Engineer and Certified Scrum Master. He also has spoken at various conferences around the world.
Frank Ruske Mayflower GmbH
Frank Ruske is a software developer currently employed at Mayflower GmbH Germany. He has more then 8 years expierence in web development and team leading.
He also is an author for the leading german php magazine.
Andreas Schliep DasScrumTeam AG
Andreas Schliep, born 1969, father of two sons, studied systems analysis at the technical university Bremerhaven, before he started working as a software developer, team lead and project manager. He learned Scrum back in 2004 from colleagues at WEB.DE in Karlsruhe/Germany. He has worked as a full time Scrum coach at SPRiNT iT, visited dozens of Scrum Teams, coached ScrumMasters, Product Owners and trained entire Scrum Teams. Andreas is now executive partner and Scrum Coach / Trainer at DasScrumTeam AG.
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.
Jan Schumann
Being around the internet since 1999 and started working with PHP in 2002, Jan Schumann is now technical Project Lead at Gruner & Jahr, with focus on static code-analysis.
Wil Sinclair Makara
Wil Sinclair, a self-confessed former Cloud Zealot, is Makara's Cloud Evangelist extraordinaire. When not thinking about the cloud, he works on technologies that facilitate and encourage cloud adoption in the PHP community. His Simple Cloud API enables "cloud native" applications that can be deployed on all major clouds. He brings 10 years of experience in the software industry at companies from the smallest of startups to large multinationals such as Oracle and Amazon. Most recently he served as project lead on the leading PHP framework: Zend Framework.
Dana Stoll aliando.com
Dana Stoll has got a long-time experience as Technical Director, later on as Principal Business Analyst for web.de AG (Combots AG/Kizoo AG). Currently, she is Consulting Senior Analyst for Deutsche Telekom AG. Here, she is in charge of daily Scrum meetings and is supervising the interim management of software-ports and the development of Data-Quality-Analysis and -Modelling, amongst others.
Since 2008, Dana is sharing her knowledge as freelancer and consultant.
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.
Philip has spoken at several conferences in the past, including FOSS.IN, FREED.IN, Ubuntulive, Linux Symposium, PHP Quebec and WebDU.
Alexey Gopachenko Jet Brains, Inc.
Alexey Gopachenko is a big believer in best practices and superior tools. At JetBrains, he contributes to TeamCity, PhpStorm and IntelliJ IDEA projects, adding to these team collaboration and individual productivity tools since 2006.
Lila Tretikov SugarCRM
Lila Tretikov is responsible for Engineering and Technology Operations at SugarCRM, including engineering development and managing SugarCRM's cloud services technology. Lila has a rich background in enterprise software spanning multiple verticals from financial to bioengineering to high-tech. She focuses on building robust products and the redundant, highly-available systems to support their delivery.
Prior to coming to Sugar, Lila led development of solutions for the telecommunications space in a 24/7 high-availability geographically redundant environments for numerous fortune 500 customers. She was responsible for development of network applications for enterprise partners such as VeriSign and Sprint/Nextel. Lila has been delivering distributed enterprise software for large customers such as Bank of America and Sun Microsystems as well as led product design, development and deployment at start-up companies.
Lila has research background in Computer Science and Mathematics. She studied computer science and design at University of California at Berkeley and Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Alvaro Videla The NetCircle
Alvaro Videla works as Lead Developer for TheNetCircle.com, a Shanghai based company that builds Germany's biggest dating website. Having worked with queue systems for several years, he integrated RabbitMQ with the company's PHP symfony projects. He's a technology advocate, having published articles in the php|architect magazine and given conferences about PHP, RabbitMQ and Erlang both in Europe and China.
Ulf Wendel Oracle/MySQL
Ulf Wendel is working for MySQL since 2004, he picked up first experiences in MySQL back in 1997. His current position in the Connectors Team is reflecting his actual background in web-development with PHP and MySQL. Right now he is working on drivers for PHP, C++ and OpenOffice. Ulf is accompanying the International PHP Conference since 2000 with sessions and workshops. And in 2009 he was touring all around the german PHP usergroups in the name of "MySQL PHP BBQ Tour".
David Zuelke Bitextender GmbH
David Zuelke is the lead developer of the Agavi project, an open source MVC framework for PHP, and managing director at Bitextender GmbH, a Munich, Germany based software consulting company. He has been doing PHP development for more than ten years and regularly speaks at conferences around the world about lovely topics like HTTP, REST, CouchDB, MapReduce and, of course, PHP.
