Ryan Dunn is a solutions architect, who specializes in web technologies and enterprise-level deployments. He currently lives in Southern Kansas City, KS.
He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Kansas State University and a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Kansas. He has worked for a variety of organizations, with his career spanning a number of industries, including e-commerce, digital marketing, SEO, education, security, and mobile.
He has been working with web technologies for over 10 years, and during this time, he has always retained an agnostic approach to the technology, which has resulted in a wide range of experience. As a solutions architect, he manages every aspect of solution deployments, including analysis, network architecture, system architecture, creative design, and development.
Phillip Mayhew has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University. He is the founder and managing principal of Rextency Technologies LLC, which is based in Statesville, North Carolina. His primary expertise lies in software application performance testing and monitoring.
Tom O'Connor is an experienced systems architect and DevOps engineer. He lives in the West Midlands in the United Kingdom. Over the last 8 years, he has worked for a wide variety of companies, from e-commerce to video effects, and now is the owner of the company he founded, which provides systems consultancy for wireless network design and installations.
He writes a technical blog on his website that provides both tutorial articles and updates on what he's been working on. He has wide-reaching skills and experience gathered over the last 10 years of working on Windows, Linux, and Unix systems for most of that time, coupled with recent experience in designing and building high-performance computer systems.
He is also an active member of the UK DevOps community as well as a community moderator on www.serverfault.com, where he demonstrates his expertise and skills to a wide audience.
Krisjanis Rijnieks is a digital interactive media professional working with projects that involve graphic design, animation, user interface design, projection mapping, programming, and electronics. The outcome of his projects usually are websites, games, and hardware prototypes or interactive installations. He also runs workshops in the field of creative coding and projection mapping. One of his most interesting current projects is the development of an openframeworks add-on for projection mapping on the Raspberry Pi—ofxPiMapper.
He is also an MA student at the Media Lab Helsinki (Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture), and he is currently working on his master thesis, which is related to the ofxPiMapper projection mapping software project.
Krisjanis runs a small digital media company CodeBark (www.codebark.com) with his colleague, Irina Spicaka. Together, they also developed a platform called Creative Coding for Live Audio and Visuals (www.cc4av.info), which acts as a placeholder for different events and workshops related to electronic audiovisual culture.
He is also collaborating with the Fab Lab, Berlin, and this is where he spends most of his time when in Berlin.
Cinder – Begin Creative Coding, Packt Publishing, is the first book that he has worked on. It's an introduction to Cinder, the C++ creative coding framework, (similar to openFrameworks) and contains tutorials to get you started with Cinder as fast and painless as possible.