PHPSerbia Conference 2017

SPEAKERS

Learn from these prominent experts and professionals

Adam Culp

Rogue Wave

Aleksandar Baloš

Performance Technologies

Marine Spill Response Corporation

Performance Technologies

Nils Adermann

Packagist Conductors UG

Patrick Allaert

Libereco Technologies

Adam Culp

Adam Culp (@AdamCulp) a Zend consultant at Rogue Wave Software, is passionate about developing with PHP and contributes to many open source projects. He organizes the SunshinePHP Developer Conference and the South Florida PHP Users Group (SoFloPHP) where he enjoys helping others write good code, implement standards, and refactor efficiently. He is a Zend Certified PHP engineer, is a voting member of the PHP-Fig, and holds a seat on the Zend Certification Advisory Board. You can also find him on his Run Geek Radio podcast and GeekyBoy technical blog. When he is not coding or contributing to various developer communities, he can be found hiking around the U.S. National Parks, teaching judo, or long distance (ultra) running.

@adamculp

Aleksandar Baloš

Aleksandar Baloš is a Lead Software Engineer at Performance Technologies, working on web-based tools for managing online advertising campaigns. He has worked professionally in web development for over 10 years, and during that time he mostly worked with PHP, but also enjoyed every project using other technologies. Interested in learning best practices, tech enthusiast, loves music and winter sports.

Aleksandar Ilić

Aleksandar Ilić is a Lead Software Engineer at esome advertising technologies. With more than ten years of experience in software development various projects has been finished, from planning to implementation and deployment. Majority of his coding skills are PHP related, but there are plenty of applications written in Java, C#, and other languages as well. Loves swimming, playing tennis and bicycle rides.

Alexander Lisachenko

I am working at Alpari (RU), one of the biggest FX Broker, as the Head of Software Architecture. I am author and project leader of the open-source aspect-oriented framework Go! AOP and I'm also a passionate FOSS PHP developer, speaker at conferences, guru in Enterprise Architecture. I like to discuss complex systems and have a strong knowledge in computer science, electronics and of course in PHP. I like to bring cutting-edge IT solutions to non-technical businesses for optimizing processes and solving complex issues. My slogan is: nothing is impossible if you put your mind to it.

@lisachenko

Andreas Heigl

Andreas helps solving problems at a german corporate publishing company. He sometimes even uses code for that. Besides his family, his work as jack-of-all-trades and contributions to different open-source-projects he still finds the time to run PHPUGFFM, the PHP-Usergroup in Frankfurt/Main and maintain PHP.ug.

@heiglandreas

Andrew Cassell

Andrew Cassell is a full-stack web application developer in Herndon, Virginia USA who designs and builds user experiences that are delightful on any device. Andrew is an employee of the non-profit Marine Spill Response Corporation, the largest dedicated oil spill and emergency response organization. He works on their website and internal web applications.

@alc277

Anna Filina

Anna Filina is a web developer, project rescue expert, Pluralsight author, speaker, and conference organizer. She enjoys realizing seemingly impossible things. She has been coding for two decades.

@afilina

Christopher Riley

Chris is a freelance consultant based in York, Uk with experience working in the public sector, small and large companies throughout North Yorkshire. Chris has over 10 years experience with PHP and has a keen focus on both software architecture and none functional requirements such as security, performance and maintainability. In his free time, Chris can often be found producing or playing with experimental libraries and contributing to Zend framework.

@giveupalready

Dragan Stefanov

Dragan is the Carpenter and Surgeon (a.k.a. a developer and the VP of Technology) at the HolidayPirates Group. A startup veteran, having co-founded previously a startup in Belgrade, he has years of experience in working with limited resources to deliver the maximum benefit under time constraints with current focus on container and severless computing, hence the interest in NoOps. He is also a big supporter of both Open Source Software and community.

Ivan Ćirić

Ivan is a notorious tinkerer, hacking on everything from light switches to complex Laravel applications. As a team lead he makes sure to spread the knowledge through a fun and engaging mentorship.

James Mallison

James is an English Software Engineer / Architect working with @trivago in Mallorca, Spain with a particular interest in software and technical architecture. Technically opinionated, he's passionate about best practices and frequently looks for shortcuts that can work for his team while still adhering to the principles that define good programming.

@j7mbo

James Titcumb

James is the founder of the UK based PHP Hampshire user group and the PHP South Coast Conference. He’s also a Zend Certified Engineer and consultant at Roave. During his downtime, he continues to run the PHP Hampshire user group and the conference, and keeps up with active contributions to various open source projects.

@asgrim

Josh Butts

Josh Butts is the VP of Engineering at Offers.com, where he leads the engineering efforts for Ziff Davis Commerce. In addition to over a decade in the trenches of e-commerce at Offers.com, he is also the organizer of Austin PHP, one of the largest PHP user groups in the US. Josh has taught several classes in PHP and enjoys the opportunity to share his experiences with the PHP community.

@jimbojsb

Michael Bodnarchuk

Michael is a passionate PHP/Ruby/JS web developer from Kyiv, Ukraine. Creator and lead maintainer of Codeception testing framework, as well as other opensource projects: Robo, CodeceptJS, AspectMock. He aims to make testing easy and fun, and encourage people to make their software better with not only unit, but functional and acceptance tests. Speaker at PHPKonf Istanbul (2015), J&Beyond Barcelona (2016), Dutch PHP Conference 2016, Bulgaria PHP 2016, ScotlandPHP 2016, and others.

@davert

Michael Heap

Michael is a polyglot software engineer, committed to reducing complexity in systems and making them more predictable. Working with a variety of languages and tools, he shares his technical expertise to audiences all around the world at user groups and conferences.Day to day, Michael is a fixer. He works on whatever needs an extra pair of hands both at his day job and in open source projects. When not immersed in technology, you'll find him either playing various board games or hiking through the countryside.

@mheap

Miro Svrtan

Veteran of PHP affairs, BDD practitioner, devops enthusiast. I started using PHP as a student, back in 1999. At first I worked as a one man band web developer and from there I progressed, via focusing on PHP development in a team environment, to be a senior dev, tech lead & technical analyst. I found much more happiness doing backend stuff so I focus on scalable backends and devops tasks this days.

@msvrtan

Nikola Nikolić

Nikola Nikolić is a Software Engineer from Belgrade, works at Performance Technologies in a role of Lead Software Engineer. Started actively developing in PHP almost a decade ago, with wide interests in software engineering and programming languages in general.

Nils Adermann

Nils Adermann created Composer - the dependency manager for PHP - and founded Private Packagist - a package archive as a service - together with Jordi Boggiano. After contributing to numerous open-source projects and different businesses using PHP for over a decade, he learned first hand what problems PHP developers face. His projects are now mostly focused on improving the developer experience around PHP and providing businesses with the tools to use PHP more efficiently.

@naderman

Patrick Allaert

Patrick Allaert is a freelance system engineer and founder of Libereco Technologies, a Brussels based company specialized in PHP services. Using PHP since the early days of PHP 3, he is contributing/hacking on a wide variety of projects including PHP, eZ Publish, Linux and KDE. In his spare time, he works on the PHP monitoring extension: APM for which he is the lead developer, that doesn’t give him much time to blog or to tweet.

@patrick_allaert

Petar Slović

Hungry for code and ideas, Petar is a Front End Team Lead that loves everything JavaScript, but also admires the elegance of Laravel. In spare time he tries to make IoT things work using Web technologies.

Philipp Krenn

Philipp is part of the infrastructure team and a Developer Advocate at Elastic, spreading the love and knowledge of full-text search, analytics, and real-time data. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and meetups about all things search & analytics, databases, cloud computing, and devops. Philipp lives in Vienna where he enjoys experimenting with software, organizing meetups, and sports.

@xeraa

Rasmus Lerdorf

Rasmus Lerdorf is known for having gotten the PHP project off the ground in 1995 and has contributed to a number of other open source projects over the years. He was an infrastructure architect at Yahoo! for more than 7 years and joined Etsy in 2012. He was born in Greenland, grew up in Denmark and Canada and has a Systems Design engineering degree from the University of Waterloo.

@rasmus

Rob Allen

Rob Allen is a software consultant and developer. He has been involved in software architecture and development for many years and writes code in PHP, Swift and other interesting languages. He is part of Slim Framework's leadership team and contributes to other open source projects. Rob is also a member of the Zend Framework Community team and wrote Zend Framework in Action. Based in the UK, he runs Nineteen Feet Limited, focussing on web development, training and consultancy. In his spare time, Rob blogs at akrabat.com and can often be seen with a camera in his hand.

@akrabat

Simo Simeunović

Simo Simeunović is a full stack developer at esome advertising technologies working with various tools and technologies to provide support for online marketing platform used by esome. Professional PHP developer for over eight years, using PHP to develop project simple as portfolio website and as complicated as booking platform or CRM solution. Tech enthusiast striving for simple & clean code, loves music and outdoor activities, great passion for hiking/skiing/running.