Casey Foster is a full-stack web developer born and raised in Southern California and now residing in Texas. He has been drawn towards web development since his early teens and has found a passion for JavaScript in the browser and on the server side with Node.js. He is a huge fan of open source projects and tries to open source as many of his projects as possible. He is a core contributor to the popular Backbone.js library and an active supporter of many other open source repositories. In early 2013, he co-authored his first book on Backbone.js, titled Developing a Backbone.js Edge. He can be found on GitHub and Twitter as caseywebdev.

Jim Newbery is a web developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland, with a 17-year history of mostly building terrible websites and web applications. Once excited by being able to make text blink on a screen, he now spends his time working for the fantasy sports website FanDuel.com, tinkering with the usual plethora of half-finished side projects, and teaching his daughter how to make animated gifs of kittens.