Zakir Hyder graduated in Computer Science from Southeast University and is pursuing his MS in Computer Science and Engineering from North South University in Bangladesh. He has been building websites and social networking apps since 1999. He has also been developing Facebook apps since 2007. He gave his talk at Facebook Developer Garage Dhaka. He has developed websites that were deeply integrated with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube APIs. He writes tests with RSpec, Cucumber, and Capybara with Selenium. He follows Agile methodologies of software development and is especially fond of scrum and standup.
Besides his full-time job, Zakir writes his blog at blog.jambura.com. You can follow him on Twitter @zakirhyder and on his LinkedIn profile at bd.linkedin.com/in/zakirhyder. He lives in Bangladesh with his wife, Fathema, and his son, Arham. Currently, he is a senior software engineer at somewherein Ltd. (http://www.somewherein.net/). He has also worked on Getting Started with Citrix® CloudPortal, Packt Publishing.
Tim Rogers is a developer based in London, UK. Ever since he learned to work with Twilio while building a cloud phone support system for his employer, GoCardless (an online payments start-up) he has done freelance work on the platform for a number of SMEs and has spoken about his experiences at Twilio's TwilioCon Europe conference.
Prateek Sachdev grew up in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. He is a prefinal year student of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India. He is pursuing his B.Tech. in Computer Science. His interests lie in Artificial Intelligence, computer networking, concurrency and parallelism, and operating systems. He is currently working on projects on Distributed Systems. He would like to work on books on Python and Algorithms.
When he isn't glued to a computer screen, he spends time playing the guitar and listening to music.