Chris Prather (Developer & CEO)
Chris has been a Senior Developer and Software Engineer for the past seven years. He currently lives in Florida.
Working for a six man company in Scotland, a world leader in Fixed Income financial data, and several Fortune 500 companies, Chris gained a lot of experience in how software businesses around the world are run. Trained as a Technical Writer he believes that software should be designed to focus on the audience, not the other way around.
He currently consults on technology for several entrepreneurs, is an active member of Moose developer team, and is a Director for the Enlightened Perl Organisation.
Kip Hampton (Developer)
Kip Hampton is a senior Systems Architect and Web Developer living in sunny Southern California.
In addition to his work his for Tamarou, Kip has labored on the cutting edge of Web technology for more than a decade, leading or contributing to projects for clients raging from small Mad Scientist start-ups to Fortune 500 industry leaders. He is also an Open Source Software true believer, having authored several key Perl XML processing modules as well as contributing to various high-profile OSS projects including the popular issue-tracking system, Bugzilla. Kip sits on the Apache Software Foundation's Project Management Committee for the Apache AxKit XML Publishing and Application Server project. He previously wrote the monthly Perl/XML column for XML.com, and authored XML Publishing With AxKit for O'Reilly Media.
When he is not banging out Perl code, writing, or chasing Dahuts, he enjoys music, avant-garde cinema, improvisational comedy, and off-roading in his Jeep.
Breno G. de Oliveira (Developer)
Breno is an illusive man of mystery. A specialist in web applications and information security, he is also the leader of Rio.pm as well as the lead organizer for YAPC::Brazil
Michael Nachbaur (Consultant)
Michael has been a senior Web Application Developer for the past 15 years, specializing in front end development. He currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Mike has worked for a variety of companies from a cable ISP to an international security company focused on spam and virus prevention. He is a developer on the Apache AxKit XML Publishing and Application Server project. Recently he has a focus on high-end iOS user interfaces and scalable web frameworks.
In his spare time, when he's not writing or building yet another web application, he enjoys riding his motorcycle cross-country along country roads or simply down to the coffee shop.
Robin Berjon (Consultant)
Robin has spent the better part of this decade setting standards for a large variety of XML and Web technologies within the W3C and other organisations. He has served as author or editor for more than dozen W3C standards, and chaired multiple groups working on XML optimisation and Web APIs. In addition to this, Robin has been an active participant in the Perl community releasing a number of open source projects around XML and Web publishing. In his copious spare time he reads, writes, and gets bitten by his cat.
Chris Thompson (Consultant)
Chris has been a Senior Systems Administrator and Webmaster for over two decades. Having worked for Fortune 500 companies, and DotCom startups, Chris has an extensive knowledge of Web/IT systems deployments. He has been active in the Perl community since the late 90s, and is the original author of Net::Twitter the definitive Perl Twitter interface.
Kjetil Kjernsmo (Consultant)
Kjetil is currently a Ph.D. student the University of Oslo, Norway, and has been following the RDF world since 1998. He prefers to write in Perl and has a few relevant modules on CPAN including RDF::LinkedData, Test::RDF and RDF::RDFa::Template. While a member of the Semantic Web Education and Outreach IG, he took the initiative to the Community Projects, that lead to the Linked Open Data project. He has also been a member of the POWDER and SPARQL WGs.