Olusegun Adegboyega - Edun (whose really long and cool Yoruba name means God is victorious) is a graduate from the Yaba College of Technology with a degree in fine arts. He began his career in graphic design as an art director for some of the world's leading advertising agencies such as TBWA/Concept, SO&U Saatchi and Saatchi, and Lagos. His life was simple back then. All he had to do was work with his creative team to cook up powerful and disruptive advertising ideas, execute those ideas with pixel-perfect art direction in print and/or TV, and basically call it a day.
But then something happened. He was bitten by the interactive media design bug. He fell in love with Flash and 3D animation. However, with few opportunities for this budding new field in Nigeria, he moved to the United States; learned some HTML, CSS, and Flash; and promptly began to freelance as a web designer. He later went back to school and bagged a Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design at Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania. While in college, he created an augmented reality art installation and took an internship at Highrock Studios, a web development company based in Hagerstown, MD. Here, he was introduced to the dark art of responsive web design with Zurb Foundation 3 and Drupal CMS.
With superior right brain skills (creativity, empathy, and so on) and spock-like left brain functions (logic, order, and so on), he knew what he wanted to do when he grew up: become a frontend web developer with a passion for story-driven web design. After graduating from college, he took up some freelance jobs before landing at a frontend web development gig at 717 Studios, a nurturing and caring environment, where two great Jedi masters, Emily Bear (one of the best user interface designers in Pennsylvania) and Chris Mowers (the yoda of application development) took him under their wings and taught him lots of cool web Jedi tricks so that someday he may rule the world of web design and development without crossing over to the dark side of factory-processed, story-less web design.
He continues to be passionate about story-driven design and responsive design with Zurb Foundation. He believes that with the web technologies available now, what you can build is only limited by your own imagination, and therefore, stories and engaging web content are the future of Web 3.0.
He is currently working on a CG illustrated book with augmented reality components woven into it. You can find out more about him and his projects at www.victoredun.com.
Bass Jobsen is from the Netherlands. He has been programming the Web since 1995. From C to PHP, he has always been looking for the most accessible interfaces. He has special interests for the process between designing and programming. In his opinion, web interfaces should work independent of the device or browser.
He is also the author of Less Web Development Essentials, Packt Publishing, and at the moment is writing Less Web Development Cookbook, Packt Publishing.
Currently, he writes a blog (http://bassjobsen.weblogs.fm/), writes LBS programs for mobile devices (http://www.gizzing.nl), and deploys awesome websites such as http://www.streetart.nl/ and http://www.argfutbol.net/.
He is always happy to help you at http://stackoverflow.com/users/1596547/bass-jobsen. You can also check his WordPress Bootstrap Starter Theme (JBST) and other projects at GitHub (https://github.com/bassjobsen).
Andrea Moretti was born in 1987 in Rome where he currently lives. He dreamed of becoming a scientist in his childhood. He was first introduced to programming languages at 11 when he casually found QBASIC on an old 486 laptop. He is studying Computer Science at Università La Sapienza in Rome, but is proudly a bad student. He strongly believes that working with inspiring people and being passionate about new things is way more effective than exams.
He also spent one year studying about Erasmus at Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. This did not help with exams, but being able to live and work in a multicultural environment is invaluable in his humble opinion. He is currently collaborating with Eikona Photography and Digital Imaging as a photographer, IT specialist, and web designer.
As a web designer, he has created various websites for individuals and small companies, mainly using static site generators or WordPress custom themes, often with the help of frameworks such as Zurb Foundation. He is also an active member of RomaJS user group.
He has contributed to various open source projects such as developing and maintaining various skeletons to use Foundation on different static site generators. To know more about him, visit https://github.com/axyz.
Augusto Tijerina is a project manager and web developer who specializes in open source technologies and business solutions. He has worked at WSI for 3 years providing web-based solutions to many clients. He also has a start-up Nuvems.com.
He also reviewed the book Instant Zurb Foundation 4, Jorge Arévalo and Carlos Azaustre, Packt Publishing.