Richard Ainger is a Software Engineer and all-round computer enthusiast residing in Australia.
Since becoming passionate about computers at an early age, Richard has explored a variety of programming languages including PHP, Java, C, and MIPS ASM. Richard has also branched outside of the more traditional desktop development and smartphone environments and has been an active developer of homebrew software for the PSP gaming system.
More recently, Richard has been enjoying developing software solutions for The Cyber Institute (TCI), a leader in the e-learning space within Australia. TCI is responsible for creating learning systems and content for some of the biggest names in Australia.
Every spare moment, Richard devotes extending his knowledge into new areas of software development trying to keep up with the constantly evolving field of software and web development.
Gabriel García Fernández is a Computer Engineer based in Barcelona working as Project Manager and CTO at Urban Ventures S.L. He has been working as a Web Developer for many years before becoming a tech manager.
He has an entrepreneurial mind, proactive, with a strong focus on team management and employees' motivation. He is very adaptable, self-motivated, and easily develops empathy with people and is always ready to learn. He is passionate about Agile methodologies and web development.
He spends his free time with his girlfriend, his family, going out with friends, or reading (literature is one of his passions).
Doug Johnson first discovered a knack for programming at Dartmouth College while tracking down a programming error in an orbital simulation that led to a citation in Physics. He has programmed applications in many languages, including C, C#, Delphi, PHP, and JavaScript and taught programming and scripting at the college level.
As the founder and owner of an accounting software consultancy, he developed customized solutions for business problems in the SMB market, primarily in medicine and manufacturing. Working with several companies, he has written health-care- and electronic-health-record software and served for several years on the IHE standards committee for eye care, co-writing one of the profiles.
He is currently developing tax software for Intuit, and he also develops websites and web applications using Drupal, Zend Framework, and AngularJS, primarily in the not-for-profit space.
He likes to cook and is developing a website called CookLoose that aims to teach how to go from being a non-cook to a competent cook.
Brent Shaffer is a Computer Scientist and musician living in Salt Lake City, Utah. He works for Adobe Systems, Inc. in the Web Services team for the Adobe Marketing Cloud platform. The Web Services team oversees all API Framework responsibilities for the Adobe Marketing Cloud, such as third-party integrations, authentication with OAuth 2.0, rate limiting, throttling, and traffic monitoring.
Brent also works remotely, performing with his band More Hazards More Heroes, a folk duo from Nashville, TN. His band has performed across the country their music has been featured in GoPro commercials and Hollywood films.
Brent is a longtime PHP and Symfony Framework advocate, and has worked closely with the community, writing plugins and official documentation for both the Symfony 1.x and 2.x projects.