Jonathan WageJonathan 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.

Marco TabiniMarco Tabini is a former. He is the former publisher of php|architect, the former author and publisher of several books, and a formerly sane person. These days, he is the CEO of Blue Parabola, a consulting firm that focuses on software research and auditing, information architecture and application development.

Eli WhiteEli has worked in/on/around the internet for more than 13 years, with the last nine spent exclusively with PHP. He is Zend’s Community Manager and spends the bulk of his time interfacing with the PHP community. Eli’s experience includes work for TravelPod, Digg and the Hubble Space Telescope Program. He is co-author of the book PHP 5 in Practice and has presented at numerous conferences.

Josh BerkusJosh Berkus has been a member of the PostgreSQL Core Team since 2002. He is CEO of PostgreSQL Experts Inc., a PostgreSQL professional services company. Prior to working on PostgreSQL, he worked with a variety of other software, including OpenOffice.org, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle PL/SQL, and (shudder) COM+. He also does Perl.

In the more colorful past, Josh has been a sculptor, a potter, a pastry baker, a labor organizer, a lobbyist, a legal assistant and a professional fundraiser. He likes to think that this gives him more perspective than the average Silicon Valley geek, but he’s probably kidding himself. He has lived in the Upper Haight neighborhood of San Francisco since 1993, and is unlikely to leave as long as rent control exists.

Mike FrankMike Frank is a Senior Product Manager for Database Group at Sun Microsystems

Mr. Frank and has over eighteen years of database administration, development and management tools experience spanning MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and other databases. His areas of interest at MySQL are virtualization, cloud computing, security, DBA tools, MySQL proxy server, operating systems, and connectors.

Stevan LittleStevan Little is a senior developer/consultant at Infinity Interactive, a guerilla band of consultants based out of New York City. He is programming language fetishist, avid CPAN contributer and enjoys pillaging good ideas from other languages so that he can implement them in Perl.

Jackson MillerJackson Miller is a local geek and self proclaimed connoisseur of programming languages and databases. His interests are mostly in analytics, business intelligence, and the intersection of philosophy and technology. Lately he has been working with Google’s AppEngine platform to create projects including urlzen.com and gpsAssassins (a location based game for the iPhone).

Robert DempseyRobert is a highly self-motivated technology professional with more than 10 years experience in IT, software development, and product management. A Certified Scrum Practitioner and an M.B.A., Rob holds meetups, conferences, provides agile coaching, blogs, Rocks the Job, reviews books for Manning, and more. You can find him all over the Internet.

Scott MeadScott Mead has been a Systems Engineer at EnterpriseDB for 4.5 years and been a Principal Systems Engineer with our customers for the past 4. Coming from an Operational IT background including 3 large school districts with thousands of users, Scott’s career has been centered around bringing highly useful solutions to his users with a focus on the problem at hand and choosing the right technology with a minimum of overhead to make deployment fast, simple and painless.

Cory G. WatsonCory G. Watson has been programming for nearly 15 years and has worked in LAMP environments ranging from small town ISPs to 24/7/365 healthcare and multi-million dollar e-commerce firms. He has developed professionally in a number of languages but calls Perl his home. A contributor to and committer on many key Open Source projects in the Perl community, he is the Director of Development at Magazines.com and Co-Founder of Cold Hard Code, LLC.

Chris PratherChris has been a Senior Developer and Software Engineer for the past seven years. He currently lives in Florida.
Between working for a six man company in Scotland, a world leader in Fixed Income financial data, and several Fortune 500 companies, Chris gained a lot of experience in how software businesses around the world are run. With a background as a Technical Writer he believes that software should be designed to focus on the audience, not the other way around.
In addition to his work with Tamarou, he currently consults on technology for several entrepreneurs and an Alexa Top 50 website. He is an active member of Moose developer team, and heads up the Extended Core Working Group for the Enlightened Perl Organisation.

Baron SchwartzBaron is the lead author of High Performance MySQL 2nd edition, and creator of innotop and Maatkit. He blogs frequently under his online alias Xaprb. Baron is the Director of Consulting at Percona, a firm that helps customers build high-performance applications with open-source software stacks such as LAMP.

John ReuningJohn Reuning is Lead Architect at Lulu.com, the premier global marketplace for new digital content on the Internet. Reuning manages Lulu’s engineering and operations teams and guides the company’s overall technology strategy.

He joined Lulu in 2005 and has worked across internal teams covering all areas of the publishing and e-commerce platforms. He took the reigns of Lulu’s engineering group in 2006. Prior to joining Lulu, Reuning spent five years at ibiblio.org, a large digital library and web hosting organization affiliated with the University of North Carolina. ibiblio works with a vast number of academic and open source software projects around the world. Before ibiblio, Reuning worked on a variety of technology projects. Reuning earned his A.B. in French from Davidson College. He earned both an M.A. in French Literature and an M.S. in Information Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Reuning enjoys exercising and is an avid runner. He also has a passion for medieval French literature, which stems from his academic days.

Luke Kanies
Luke has been publishing and speaking on his work in Unix administration since 1997. He has focused on tool development since 2001, developing and publishing multiple simple sysadmin tools and contributing to established products like Cfengine. He founded Reductive Labs in 2005 as a response to the stagnation in sysadmin tools, to be a vehicle for changing the way we interact with and manage our computers. He founded and is the project lead for Puppet, an open-source automation framework written in Ruby, and he is always researching and developing new ways to make it easier to talk to computers on your terms. He has presented on Puppet and other tools around the world, including at OSCON, LISA, Linux.Conf.au, and FOSS.in.

Paul M. JonesA US Air Force veteran of Desert Storm, Paul is an internationally recognized PHP expert working for the NYC office of OmniTI.com as a Web Architect. Paul’s latest open-source project is is the Solar Framework for PHP 5. Among his other accomplishments, Paul is the original developer of the Savant template system, has authored a series of authoritative benchmarks on dynamic framework performance, and was a founding contributor to the Zend Framework (the DB, DB_Table, and View components).

Ben StuckiBen Stucki is an independent Flex developer and consultant with a background in standards-based web development. After a long love affair with Flash experimentation, Ben got his hands on Flex and created some of the first custom Flex components available on the web. Today Ben continues to post sample code through his blog at http://blog.benstucki.net and contributes to many well known open-source Flex projects including FlexLib, Degrafa, and Reflex.

Ryan BalfanzRyan is a developer with GalaxyZoo.org designing an image processing pipeline combining Python and Hadoop to process high-volume datasets for missions such as the recently launched Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter currently orbiting the Moon.