Jon McLoone (Wolfram Alpha)

“Jon McLoone has worked with Wolfram Research, the makers of Mathematica since 1992, working on software development, system design, technical writing and strategy. He supports educational projects in cooperation with universities and government research and has lectured on Mathematica around the world. McLoone has a degree in mathematics from Durham University.”

The full list of my involvement with Wolfram Research is a bit longer as I have been superficially or significantly involved in most aspects of the company at one time or another including product design, development, corporate policy, technical marketing, partnerships, evangelism, PR, competitive analysis, channel management, sales, business systems and processes, marketing programs, and no-doubt a few other ways of slicing a company.

I am currently the Director of Business Development, principally responsible for the directions that our company takes on business policy, technical strategy and projects with external organizations. I also act as a spokesman and evangelist for the company.

Andy Clarke

Andy Clarke has been called a lot of things since he started working on the web ten years ago. His ego likes words like “ambassador for CSS”, “industry prophet” and “inspiring”, but actually he is most proud that Jeffrey Zeldman once called him a “(triple talented) bastard”.

Andy took ten months of his life to write the best-selling Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design, but his passion is amazing web design. He loves designing for the web, writing about design, and teaching it at workshops and conferences all over the world.

Now he is pulling all of those passions together to create For A Beautiful Web, a unique series of web design master classes that cover topics including visual design and best-practice use of technologies.

Dan Rubin

More info coming soon.

Adii Rockstar

Born Adriaan Pienaar is an entrepreneur, the co-founder of the very successful online startup WooThemes and a general creator of Rockstar Awesomeness. Along with being a serial entrepreneur, he is also a designer & developer (CSS, PHP & WordPress), which has spawned his other company – a boutique design & development agency – Radiiate.

Tim Van Damme

Tim Van Damme is a freelance interface designer at Made by Elephant. Not afraid to push the limits, friend of all things living, blabbermouth, honest chap, passionate about the web, always in the mood for a chat, blogger at Maxvoltar, boyfriend of Gwenny, Belgian, Twitter addict.

Sarah Parmenter

Sarah owns You Know Who, a small design studio, now in it’s 7th year, in the beautiful town of Leigh-on-Sea in Essex. Sarah’s passion lies purely in the web. Creating beautiful websites that match the clients brand and adhere to web standards are her forte. Being a Virgo means she is a true perfectionist and can be known to push pixels for hours. Sarah’s straight talking nature and no fuss approach to projects have landed her many great contracts over the years with various brands in the UK and abroad.

Simon Collison

Simon (http://colly.com) is a freelance web designer, developer, author, speaker, and consultant with over a decade of experience at the sharp end.

His last big adventure saw him co-founding Erskine Design back in 2006, and the agency was runner-up in the .Net Awards Design Agency Of The Year category in 2009.

Simon recently left Erskine to pursue new and exciting challenges, which he can’t talk about yet. In an unrelated note, despite hailing from Nottingham, he loves the North-East.

Developers

Michael Brunton-Spall

Michael Brunton-Spall works for the Guardian newspaper on guardian.co.uk, their online presence.  Michael has spent the last 3 years building and scaling the Guardian’s web infrastructure to cope with over 250 million page views per month. He recently organised and ran the UK’s first ScaleCamp unconference to get together developers and systems people involved in scaling within the UK.

Michael’s most recent projects include the Guardians MP Expenses projects, an attempt to crowdsource an understanding of what MP’s are claiming for, and the server side infrastructure to cope with the Guardian’s iPhone application.

Michael prefers to program in the latest funkiest languages, this week he is mostly using Python and Django, but has been known to “dabble” in Java, C++, C# as well.

Elliott Kember

Formerly Lead Developer at Carsonified, Elliott works as a freelance Rails Developer in Bath. A Rails ninja by trade, Elliott spends most of his time building fun and useful applications for the social networking site Twitter. He was behind Twitter apps such as Spreadtweet, Filetweet, and Blocky, and has been featured in the New York Times, CNET’s The404 podcast, Mashable, Smashing Magazine and the Future of Web Apps conference, to name a few. He really likes pink.

David Singleton

David Singleton is a London-based web developer at music social network Last.fm. Having worked with the web for over ten years he likes doing a bit of everything; backend, frontend, interaction design and testing. He enjoys the technical and social challenges of building things used by millions of people every day.

He blogs excitedly about his passions; technology, music, and food, from time to time.

Peter-Paul Koch

Peter-Paul Koch is a freelance front-end consultant and trainer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He specialises in the mobile web. He has won international renown with his browser compatibility research, frequently speaks at conferences, has founded Fronteers, the Dutch association of front-end professionals, and advises browser vendors on their implementation of the web standards.

In 2009 he started working as a mobile platform strategist on mobile web consultancy, training and browser compatibility research.

On the Web he is universally known as ppk.

His DOM Compatibility Tables are reliably estimated to have saved the global web developer
population about €5 million on hair transplants in 2007 alone. Figures for the mobile web will be roughly equivalent.

Gareth Rushgrove

Gareth works at glassesdirect.co.uk in London where he spends his time wrangling with Python, Django and as many other cools tools as he can get his hands on. He’s sort of a developer/systems hybrid at the moment and given half a chance he’ll be off using message queues, webhooks and tiny web services for everything.

He blogs occasionally at morethanseven.net and lives in Cambridge, having moved from Newcastle many moons ago.

Emma Persky

Emma Persky is a passionate evangelist for the barcamp movement, an avid traveller and a vibrant storyteller. When not on a global expedition or planning her next barcamp, she can be found in London, England, engineering software for Gumtree.