Marcus Bointon has been a Less committer for the last couple of years, having developed a taste for Less during the early versions of Twitter Bootstrap. He has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of London and a Master's degree from Loughborough University of Technology. He's been involved in computing since 1981 and developing for the Web since 1993. He has extensive experience in many development languages (mainly PHP), Linux and OpenBSD server admin, MySQL database design and admin, e-mail infrastructure, network design, and much more. He is the maintainer of the very popular PHPMailer e-mail sending library.
Marcus is the co-founder and technical director of Synchromedia Limited, a UK-based company behind the smartmessages.net e-mail marketing service, and a UK partner for the 1CRM open source CRM system.
He lives with his wife and two kids in the French Alps, where he can indulge his passion for skiing and mountain biking.
Simone Deponti is a web developer from Milan, Italy. He has eight years of experience in the field, primarily in CMSes, and has contributed to some open source projects, most notably the Plone CMS. He is also the author of a small debugging tool for Less and FireLess, and he wrote the initial debugging support in the Less compiler.
He works for Abstract, a web technology agency based in Italy and Germany, as a developer and project manager. You can find him at events around the world, focusing on Python, JavaScript, and CMSes.
Austin Pickett is a freelance web developer based out of Boston, MA. He has been interested in programming since he was a child and is never seen without a computer nearby. As a self-taught designer and developer, he has worked with several of his own clients to turn their websites or applications into a reality.
Austin has his own freelance career in which he works closely with clients to create their applications. He has worked with a wide array of clients from The National Academy of Best-selling Authors and vacation property owners to web design firms.