Si Fleming is a senior engineer with experience in working with Java and PHP for over a decade. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Sussex, where his research focused on distributed systems, ad hoc social networks, Q&A, security, and privacy.

Michael Peacock is an experienced software developer and team lead from Newcastle, UK, with a degree in software engineering from the University of Durham.

After spending a number of years running his own web agency and subsequently working directly for a number of software start-ups, Michael now runs his own software development agency, working on a range of projects for an array of different clients.

He is the author of Creating Development Environments with Vagrant, PHP 5 Social Networking, PHP 5 E-Commerce Development, Drupal 7 Social Networking, Selling Online with Drupal e-Commerce, and Building Websites with TYPO3, all by Packt Publishing. The other publications Michael has been involved in include Advanced API Security, Mobile Web Development, Jenkins Continuous Integration Cookbook, and Drupal for Education and E-Learning, for which he acted as a technical reviewer.

Michael has also presented at a number of user groups and technical conferences, including PHP UK Conference, Dutch PHP Conference, ConFoo, PHPNE, PHPNW, and CloudConnect Santa Clara.

You can follow Michael on Twitter at @michaelpeacock or find out more about him through his website at www.michaelpeacock.co.uk.

Brayan Laurindo Rastelli has been involved in web development for more than 6 years now and is always in pursuit of new and cool technologies to work with. Brayan has a passion for making things faster and more efficient. He carries with him an extensive knowledge of PHP, most notably the Laravel framework, having created a Laravel course to train Brazilians. In addition, Brayan has also created and maintained both the website and forum for the Laravel community in Brazil. Currently, he works at Speed to Contact on a single page/real-time application using Laravel, AngularJS, WebSockets, telephony, and other cutting-edge technologies.

Michael Somma is an Italian web developer skilled in PHP, MySQL, and some new frameworks such as jQuery, jQuery UI, and Twitter Bootstrap. For over 2 years, he has been a major user of the PHP CodeIgniter framework and has now migrated to the Laravel framework. He likes to develop both application frontend and backend with new technology that learns. Since 2010, he has worked at a web agency in Bari (Italy), developing a large variety of websites and web applications; in 2014, he started his own activity. As part of Github, he tries to contribute to various projects in his spare time.