Joey deVilla has worked on all sorts of projects, such as creating Olympic athlete training software, CD-ROM directories for every mall in America with Visual Basic, Python-powered gift certificates, travel agency websites, the frontend for the censorship-thwarting project Peekabooty in C++, Duke of URL in PHP that suggests domain names, and a failed social networking app for frat dudes and dudettes in Ruby on Rails. He's also done some technical evangelism for OpenCola, Tucows, Microsoft, and Shopify. He's currently stirring up trouble in the mobile industry, and when he's not doing that, he's stirring up trouble playing Nine Inch Nails, AC/DC, and Britney Spears on his accordion.
Christophe Favresse developed a passion for e-commerce technologies, and in early 2013, launched his wife's online retail business (www.favresse.com) powered by Shopify and Amazon fulfillment services. In less than one year, this website attracted customers from eight EU countries and the U.S. Christophe, an international sales executive in the software industry, has spent the last 15 years prospecting telecom operators and providing CRM, marketing, and risk assurance solutions to optimize their customer lifetime value and revenues. He has spent two years in Thailand and 15 years in the UK. He currently lives near Nice (France) with his wife and four children. He holds a master's degree in International Marketing from Michael Smurfit School of Business (Ireland) and a bachelor's degree in Economics from Solvay Brussels School (Belgium).
M. Scott Ford has been developing software for the last 15 years. He's worked in many industries, from aerospace to e-commerce. His goal is to stay a polyglot developer. He's worked with many different languages and frameworks over the years, but his favorites are Ruby, JavaScript, and Objective-C.
Scott is the founder of corgibytes (http://corgibytes.com), a consulting company with a focus on legacy applications. This is where he applies a pragmatic, test-focused approach to working with existing code. This results in a new life for apps that would otherwise have to be rewritten or abandoned.
Will Rossiter is a Senior Web Developer for DNA Design in New Zealand; he oversees the architecture, development, and maintenance of large-scale web applications across a range of platforms and technologies, including Shopify, WordPress, SilverStripe, Node.js, and Ruby on Rails. He is the creator and maintainer of the grunt-shopify plugin for publishing Shopify themes.
Zac Williams is a Full Stack Web Developer from Birmingham, Alabama with over 10 years of experience. Although he has experience with a variety of frameworks and languages, his specialties are Ruby on Rails and JavaScript. He has experience working on high-traffic web applications across multiple industries, such as e-commerce, healthcare, and higher education.