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A Acquia-certified Drupal Triple Expert with 17 years of experience, an open-source software maintainer and Drupal core contributor, public speaker, live streamer, and host of the Beyond Blocks podcast.
My name is Paul, and I'm from Glasgow, Scotland. I'm an open-source contributor, public speaker, trainer, and consultant by trade. I'm a member of the CD Foundation, PHP, PHP-FIG, and Jenkins projects/teams. In my career, I've held positions such as Director of Engineering, CTO, Principal Engineer/Architect, and so on. I've spent many years modernizing CI/CD pipelines and embedding continuous delivery processes and solutions into businesses. I enjoy sharing my experience in the space with the wider community by way of private training or conference speaking.
James is a software developer living in Staffordshire, United Kingdom. Working at Laravel, he’s focused on creating epic developer tools including Laravel Forge and Envoyer . He’s also a co-organiser of the PHP Stoke meetup.
Joe is one of the Laravel core team member where he predominantly works on Vapor, finding creative ways of using serverless technology to solve problems. He is also a co-maintainer of the Laravel Community Portal, Laravel.io.
Ryan is a community focused PHP developer at Bluetel and Codebar Birmingham Co-Organiser.
Ciaran coaches, trains and works with teams to deliver valuable software effectively at Crania Ltd.
A PHP internals expert and author of Xdebug, Derick works as an independent contractor and consultant on PHP extensions and related projects.
Working for the PHP Foundation, Derick continues to contribute to the PHP project in numerous forms (Date/Time Extension, Xdebug, PHP 4.4/7.4 Release Manager and more). He is 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 is also the host of the weekly-ish PHP Internals News podcast.
A trained actor with a curious background: from theatre studies, to Q/A, to business intelligence development, to full stack web development, James is the resident specialist PHP Developer Advocate at global cloud communications giant, Vonage. He's helped keep BrumPHP alive over the years and is on the Fusion Meetup team.
A mentor and writer, James regularly speaks about PHP, Javascript, DevOps, DevRel and tech culture and previously compèred Brum Tech Tapas, Jump24’s own Birmingham-based culture and community event.
Christopher remembers getting his first level introduction to computing in 1985, at around age three. His dad came home from work one day with a box – containing a soldering iron, a book and some computer bits and bobs. They sat at a table together and built a ZX Spectrum 48k computer.
Today, Christopher is Head of IT and Development for The School Of Code, teaching people how to code from nothing to full stack developer in 16 weeks. When he’s not coding, He is often found preparing his next talk, learning about the next new technology, or mentoring newcomers to the technology scene.