David Carr, for the past 12 years, has been developing applications for the web, using mostly PHP. He does this for a living and loves what he does as every day there is something new and exciting to learn.

David often attends PHP conferences and attends local meetups to learn and teach others.

He spends a lot of time learning new techniques and actively helping other people learn web development through a variety of help groups. He also writes web development tutorials for his website and blog about advancements in web design and development. You can read more about him here: https://daveismyname.blog/.

Markus Gray is a full-stack web developer/designer with 11 years' experience, based in Philadelphia.

He has diverse and deep interests in most trending technologies. He spends most of his time helping public and private companies, and has also worked with the federal government in the department of education. Currently, he is the CEO of Syncware Technologies, Inc. He is extremely passionate about teaching, and hopes to spend more and more time helping young developers in the community become proficient at software development.

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