Ben Ramsey
Keynote Speaker
Ben is a seasoned software engineer with 25+ years of experience in web applications. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Intuit Mailchimp, he leads the API Core team managing the Mailchimp public API. A passionate advocate for open source, Ben is a PHP release manager, creator of the ramsey/uuid library, and an active community contributor. A prolific writer and speaker, he has contributed to books, articles, and conferences. Connect with him on the web at https://ben.ramsey.dev or on the Fediverse at @[email protected].
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- Saving Open Source Keynote
- Grokking HTTP Workshop
Cori Lint
Keynote Speaker
Cori Lint is a versatile software engineer specializing in PHP and Python, with experience as a full-stack engineer, backend engineer, and web developer in the health tech and ecommerce industries. She began her tech journey as a software engineering fellow at Hackbright Academy, building on her academic foundation from the University of Michigan. Previously, Cori spent a decade in the classical music industry as a professional cellist and orchestra manager. Residing in sunny St. Pete, FL, she "touches grass" by cultivating her many hobbies including music, crocheting, rollerblading, gardening, and powerlifting.
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Cory House
Keynote Speaker
Cory is an author, a 12 time Microsoft MVP, and international speaker. He is founder of reactjsconsulting, where he helps companies transition to React. He has trained over 10,000 software developers at conferences and businesses worldwide. Cory has authored over a dozen courses on JavaScript, React, C#, testing, and web development on Pluralsight and Dometrain. He shares software development tips daily on X as @housecor.
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Florian Engelhardt
Keynote Speaker
Proud dad of 👧🧒🧒🧒👧, Coder, Author, Speaker, Geek. Vim, PHP 🐘, Rust 🦀, OpenSource! PHP Profiling @ Datadog
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- Turtles all the way down Keynote
- Observing PHP for Fun and Profit Workshop
Lemon
With a lifelong passion for the weirdness of the internet and a day job as a development lead for whoever hired him, Lemon spends his professional time making websites for money and his free time making websites for no money.
He's created a number of stupid things for the internet, like all the games on kinda.fun, the wikiHow guessing game damn.dog, the Google Autocomplete game idiots.win, and a bunch of other things of questionable use. He also hosts a podcast that looks at some of the internet's weirder subcultures. It is not safe for your work, unless you work somewhere really cool.
Alena Holligan
For over 20 years, Alena has built technical solutions that inform decisions and solve problems across diverse industries. She enjoys both the creativity of programming and the thrill of solving a puzzle. As a leader in the community, a technical trainer, and a mom, she is passionate about providing the tools and mindset required for everyone to learn and succeed.
AmyJune Hineline
AmyJune is the Certification Community Architect at the Linux Foundation, where she collaborates with the Education team to develop and maintain exams and related documentation for the foundation’s certification portfolio.
An active DrupalCamp organizer, she serves on several programming committees, is a member of the Community Working Group’s Conflict Resolution Team, and sits on the Colorado Drupal Association board.
With a background as a hospice nurse, AmyJune remains attuned to the challenges faced by end-users. She is also the co-organizer of A11yTalks and actively participates in the CNCF's Deaf and Hard of Hearing Working Group.
Beyond coding, AmyJune empowers communities to find their voice and contribute in meaningful ways. Her talent for eating with her elbows on the table has has wowed the world.
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Ben Batschelet
Ben has been a developer focusing on PHP for over 15 years now. He has worked at all levels of the web development stack, from frontend to backend, and even down to devops and automation. He has a passion for creating clean accessible code that is a joy to read and to maintain.
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Bernardo Martinez
Bernardo started his Drupal journey in 2018, with version 8.3. Since then, he has demonstrated his passion for the community by participating in Drupal user groups, local Drupalcamps, and Drupalcons. Over the last 2 years, he has started his journey as a speaker. Topics range from local development with DDEV to front-end technologies and tips on achieving outcomes fast by borrowing ideas from open-source projects.
He is a maintainer for the Drupal recording initiative and ddev.com. Lately, he has taken every opportunity to contribute back. That mostly comes in the form of code, documentation, or as a speaker. He currently works as the Senior Front-end developer for SBA.gov (A Drupal-powered website).
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Bree Hall
Bree is a frontend Software Engineer turned Developer Advocate at HubSpot. She has a passion for coding and making technology more accessible to everyone. Bree creates technical content to help developers create and build autonomously. When she isn't working for the Developer Advocacy team at HubSpot, you can find her playing video games, baking, or traveling to magical destinations.
Charles Sprayberry
A developer programming in various industries for the past 15 years, with a focus on testing, understandable code, and delivering for end-users. Charles has released or contributed to numerous open-source libraries; he's a strong proponent in learning by doing. Charles's current focus is on maintaining better test suites and improving the way dependency injection is handled in PHP. When Charles isn't writing code for money, he's often writing code for free or spending time with his wife and dogs.
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Chris Abbey
cabbey has been paid to write software for a good bit over 30 years now, having done so all up and down the stack on both sides of the wire and at scales from tiny embedded boards barely clocking a mHz to a super computer that was in the top 5 at the time. These days he lives server side in the backend of SmugMug and Flickr, mostly working in PHP and AWS.
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Chuck Reeves
As a contractor, Chuck Reeves has been a DevOps engineer for over 20 years and has gained much knowledge from working in multiple industries. He has recently settled down as the Sr Developer Advocate for Vonage. In his spare time, he is a long-distance backpacker and a new father.
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Daniel Scherzer
Open source contributor and PHP 8.5 release manager, @DanielEScherzer on GitHub. See https://scherzer.dev/ for more.
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Dave Liddament
Dave is a director of Lamp Bristol, a software consultancy. He’s been writing software commercially for over 23 years in many languages including C, Python, Java and PHP.
Dave is keen to pass on his knowledge. He speaks at conferences and user groups and also is the organiser of PHP-SW.
He is also the author of a couple of libraries:
SARB (static analysis results baseliner) PHP Language Extensions Library When not busy coding Dave enjoys scuba diving and running.
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Dave Stokes
Dave Stokes is an open-source evangelist and database expert. He is the author of MySQL & JSON - A Practical Programming Guide. He lives in North Texas with the mandated pickup truck, hound dogs, and guitars.
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David Kerber
Dave is an engineer and entrepreneur with 20 years of experience building technology—and technology companies. He’s led engineering at startups, consulted with Fortune 500s, and built multiple cloud security products from the ground up. With a decade of AWS experience, he now focuses on IAM tooling and developer-centric cloud security.
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- IAM Frustrated Talk
Eric Poe
Eric Poe is a lifelong learner, half-knit/half-wit. He is a co-organizer of the KC PHP User Group and MergePHP. When he's not leading a small team through misadventures in programming, Eric enjoys spending time with his family, reading, and watching kung-fu movies.
Evan Hahn
Evan Hahn is a computer programmer. He is originally from Silicon Valley and now lives in beautiful Chicago. Passionate about using technology for good (and being careful about the bad!), he maintains several open source projects, has worked with several tech nonprofits, and authored two programming books. He loves a good panini.
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James Titcumb
James is a consultant, trainer and developer at Roave, working in software for over 20 years. His goal is to improve the quality of software products that teams deliver.
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Janani Subbiah
Janani Subbiah is a staff engineer at Detroit Labs, where she specializes in designing and building cross-platform applications with a focus on clean, scalable architecture. Her journey into software engineering began with long hours playing Dangerous Dave on her computer, sparking a lifelong passion for technology. When she’s not at work or diving into her latest project, Janani is often found re-reading one of the Harry Potter books, planning her next travel adventure, or tending to her balcony garden in an effort to grow her own food.
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Joe Ferguson
DevOps/System Ops. Writer. Open Source, Linux, Python, PHP, Ansible, K8s, ❤️ DevOps.
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Josh Butts
Josh is the CTO at Foundry, a digital media publisher whose portfolio includes Macworld, CIO.com and TechCrunch among others. In addition to his experience as a tech executive in digital media, he has over a two decades of e-commerce engineering experience. Josh has taught several classes in PHP and enjoys the opportunity to share his experiences in enterprise PHP with the community.
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Josh Copeland
Joshua Copeland is CTO of Remote Dev Force and works with clients all over the world to build high quality systems. With over 15 years as a software architect and serial entrepreneur, Joshua has gained a good blend of start-up and enterprise experience. Developing PHP applications is a big part of his day-to-day work and keeps security first-in-mind. Joshua’s team of engineers regularly work on building features for mission critical projects, setting up and maintaining infrastructure with Terraform, building pipelines, Pen-testing, putting out fires, and much more. He has led the PHP Vegas Users' Group for over 9 years and loves to give back by speaking at conferences and educating the community.
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Keith Davis
With a 27-year career trajectory that began in general IT operations (support, network and system administration) before transitioning to PHP development, I bring deep technical expertise coupled with extensive leadership experience. Currently serving as Director of Development and Reporting at a major call center within TIAA-CREF, one of the world's largest financial institutions, I previously spent 17 formative years at a small, privately owned healthcare organization specializing in physical therapy and physician services, where I built the entire IT infrastructure almost from the ground up.
This experience honed my ability to architect comprehensive technology solutions while developing my technical skillset across multiple domains. I thrive on writing clean code, exploring emerging technologies, and applying innovative solutions to complex business challenges. My technical passion is balanced by my dedication to my family, creating a well-rounded perspective that informs my leadership approach and decision-making.
Larry Garfield
Larry Garfield has been building websites since he was a sophomore in high school, which is longer ago than he'd like to admit.
Larry is currently Principal Engineer at MakersHub. He has also been a Staff Engineer at both TYPO3 and LegalZoom, and Director of Developer Experience for Platform.sh. A long-time Drupal contributor and consultant, Larry led the Drupal 8 Web Services initiative that helped transform Drupal into a modern PHP platform. Larry is a member of the PHP-FIG Core Committee, co-author of several PHP RFCs, and has authored several books on PHP development including "Thinking Functionally in PHP" and "Exploring PHP 8.0."
Larry holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from DePaul University. He blogs occasionally at https://www.garfieldtech.com.
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Levi Morrison
Levi has been contributing to the PHP programming language and ecosystem for over 10 years. Lately he's been writing Rust at Datadog, which he's quite enjoyed compared to C.
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Mandy Hubbard
Mandy Hubbard has spent most of her career leading QA efforts, with a focus on removing friction from the development workflow through test automation and CI/CD pipelines. Her attention to the everyday challenges developers face led her into developer advocacy and eventually into technical marketing for tools that reduce toil and improve the day-to-day experience for engineering teams.
Mandy is currently a Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager at Chainguard, where she focuses on secure software delivery and developer-first solutions.She nerds out about clean build pipelines, clear docs, and anything that helps developers move faster without breaking things.
Mandy lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, two teenagers, a very opinionated tuxedo cat, and a Muppet-like labradoodle. Outside of work, she enjoys reading, gardening, drinking excessive amounts of matcha, and stepping away from screens whenever possible.
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Marcus Johansson
I'm one of the main maintainers of the Drupal AI module and the Technical lead in the delivery team of the Drupal AI Initiative.
I have a history of working with Java, Javascript, C# and PHP, including working with PHP for one of the 10 most visited web services of its day (The Nokia App Store). Recently I worked with Live Streaming as a Video Engineer, before taking an interest in Drupal when ChatGPT was released.
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Mike Lehan
Mike has been working in web application development for 15 years, including time as a CTO and startup founder. The journey has taught him a lot about how teams grow together, ways to build resilient software systems, and how we need to understand the impact of what we build on the world around us. He's passionate about sharing this experience with the wider software & business communities, mentoring the next generation of engineers & entrepreneurs. He also has a deep dislike of printers.
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Mike Miles
Mike is passionate about development and working with the latest open source technologies. He has been working in web engineering since 2003, utilizing a number of different technologies, languages and frameworks. He has been working with Drupal since 2008 and is a regular contributor to the community and project. From 2015 to 2024 he was the lead organizer of the Boston Drupal Meetup Group. Since 2017 has been one of the organizers of New England Drupal Camp.
In his day-to-day role as Director of Web Development at MIT Sloan, Mike leads the development, maintenance and growth of the digital properties for the school, as well as, the development team that supports them. He is a public speaker and regularly presents at technical conferences around the world. Since 2013 Mike has presented dozens of talks at many different conferences/camps across the globe.
Nočnica Mellifera
Worked with Kubernetes and Observability for the last few years. She's been published in Information Age, The New Stack, and Forbes.
She lives in Portland Oregon with her two children and dozens of houseplants.
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Savio Resende
Savio Resende is a software engineer with over 19 years of experience. He's worked in both the public and private sectors and is passionate about software architecture/design.
Scott Keck-Warren
Scott Keck-Warren is a Senior Software Engineer at Activated Insights and is also a published author, podcast host, conference speaker, consultant, and producer of education content for web application developers. He's been a professional PHP developer, DevOps engineer, and team lead for over a decade, delivering solutions for his clients that produce real-world results.
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Stefany Newman
Stefany is passionate about teaching beginners and simplifying complex topics by using empirical research, clear language, and a slow-paced approach.
She is an accessibility engineer who’s helped over 25,000 students learn how to make the web more inclusive.
She combines deep accessibility expertise with strong coding skills, which enable her not just to identify accessibility issues, but to fix them.
When she is not coding, you can find her either in the book group or stabbing her friends in the fencing club.
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