Speakers
Ilia Alshanetsky Centah Inc.
Ilia Alshanetsky is a CIO at Centah Inc., a company specializing in providing solutions to retail and construction industries. He is the author of FUDforum (http://fudforum.org), a highly popular, Open Source bulletin board focused on providing the maximum functionality at the highest level of security and performance. Ilia is also Core PHP Developer, an active member of PHP’s Q&A team and a Release Master for PHP 5.2. He authored and co-authored a number of extensions with notables such as SHMOP, PDO, SQLite and GD and is responsible for large number of bug fixes and performance tweaks in the language. A prolific lecturer and writer, Ilia can found speaking at international conferences and is frequently published in print and online magazines on a variety of PHP topics. He is also the author of an upcoming book on PHP security. Ilia can be reached at ilia@ilia.ws
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.
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.
Felix De Vliegher Ibuildings
Felix De Vliegher is working as PHP software engineer at Ibuildings. He has got a giant passion for everything PHP-related, and has been developing enterprise PHP applications for over 6 years now. Felix is also a Zend PHP5 and Zend Framework Certified engineer.
His current interests are PHP-QA (e.g. writing PHPT tests for PHP), everyting related to enterprise PHP development and sharpening up his C knowledge for a bit of core PHP hacking. Further more, together with Michelangelo van Dam he has recently started a Belgian PHP user group and community called PHPBelgium.
Benjamin Eberlei direkt effekt GmbH
Benjamin Eberlei is software developer at direkt effekt GmbH. In his spare time he maintains and develops several components for the Zend Framework, is part of the Doctrine development team contributes to a handful of other open source projects.
Bastian Feder papaya Software GmbH
Employed by Papaya Software GmbH in 2008, Bastian Feder participates in the development efforts of the Papaya CMS. He started with PHP programming in 2001 mainly developing assetmenegement systems and travel & expence declartation 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.
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 developer and ScrumMaster for the price comparison at CHIP Xonio Online GmbH (www.chip.de). He blogs privately at http://www.phpdevblog.net , is a certified Scrum Master (CSM) and studies psychology part-time at Fernuni Hagen.
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 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 Heike and Vibiemme, their espresso machine.
Scott Mattocks OnForce, Inc.
Scott Mattocks is a senior developer at OnForce, Inc. He is responsible for architecture decisions and final development reviews before code is handed off to QA. Scott is also a contributor to PEAR and is the author of Pro PHP-GTK.
Manuel Pichler
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.
Mitch Pirtle Spacemonkeylabs, LLC
Mitch founded Spacemonkey Labs back in 2000 to focus on custom development of web applications for his consulting clients. He has always been an entrepreneur, as he was an early player at ClassMates.Com; and has been founding businesses since 1995. His most prolific success has come with Open Source as a core member of the award winning Mambo content management system, which went on to become the industry renowned Joomla! content management system - having nearly a million downloads monthly and growing. He is also involved in the MongoDB database project, helping with the PHP extension and documentation. He has also worked on some very high-traffic websites that peak at nearly 60 million page views weekly, and has learned a great deal from that experience.
He is a supreme tinkerer (hence the nickname that became the namesake for the company). He constantly explores emerging technologies to find innovative approaches before they become mainstream. He also spends a lot of time working with social media technologies and was previously a VP at a major social media company, and is an active member of user groups and communities centered around internet marketing, wine, music, development, and skateboarding.
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.
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.
Ben Ramsey Schematic
Ben Ramsey is a Senior Software Architect at Schematic. He is a prolific writer and frequent speaker, often writing and speaking about web services and HTTP. He has written for php|architect, International PHP Magazine, and Zend Developer Zone and is a co-author of php|architect's Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide. Ben is also the founder of the Atlanta PHP user group. He blogs at benramsey.com, and is on Twitter at @ramsey.
Derick Rethans eZ systems
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
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.
Stephan Schmidt 1&1 Internet AG
Stephan Schmidt is Head of Web Development at 1&1 Internet AG and responsible for the development of online order processes in Java, PHP, JavaScript and XSLT.. He is the author of "PHP Design Patterns" as well as co-author of several other books on PHP. 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.
David Soria Parra SUN Microsystems
David Soria Parra is a software engineer at SUN Microsystems' Webstack team working on PHP. With more than three years of experience working with decentralized version control systems, he occasionally gives Git and Mercurial trainings and talks. He is a contributor to the Git and Mercurial SCM and maintainer of the official Git mirrors of the PHP Subversion repository.
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.
Alexander M. Turek
Alexander M. Turek is co-developer of phpMyAdmin (2002 til 2006). He studies computer science at the University of Karlsruhe (KIT). Furthermore, he works as a developer of database driven web applications for the university's library.
Jonathan Wage Sensio Labs
Jonathan Wage has been working with various web technologies for nearly 10 years building software on the internet. He formerly was the lead developer and application architect at centre{source}. Today you will find him with Sensio Labs, the creators of the symfony MVC framework. His primary responsibilities are training other developers as well as working on the symfony and Doctrine open source projects. He is a core contributor to symfony and the lead of the Doctrine project.
Ulf Wendel MySQL GmbH/Sun Microsystems GmbH
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. In 2008, he was recently speaking about the asynchronous API of mysqlnd. And in 2009 he was touring all around the german PHP usergroups in the name of "MySQL PHP BBQ Tour".
Andrei Zmievski Analog
Andrei Zmievski has been developing and tinkering with web-accessible software for more than a decade. He is a well-known personality in the PHP community, where his accomplishments include being a long-time core developer and member of the PHP Group, the author of PHP-GTK, a co-author of Smarty, and the architect and lead developer of the Unicode and internationalization (i18n) support in PHP 6.
Andrei enjoys learning new things and sharing what he has learned. He is a frequent speaker at web conferences around the world such as OSCON and International PHP Conference, a co-author of the PHP Developer\\\'s Cookbook, and is also a well-read blogger at zmievski.org, where he writes about PHP and other topics.
David Zülke 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 company. He has been doing PHP development for more than ten years and regularly speaks at conferences around the world.
