Martin Hejtmanek is leading the development of Kentico CMS and also takes care of its architecture and core. He joined Kentico almost at the very beginning, five years ago, being one of the first full-time employees at that time, and quickly moved from a developer to CTO as the company grew. He knows every single part of the solution from its core to the details of particular modules.
He studied at the Brno University of Technology in the field of Intelligent systems (AI, computer vision, neural networks). During his years as a student, he used almost all of the most common programming languages, from which he became most proficient in C# and ASP.NET. Some other fields that he enjoys in his spare time are computer graphics, performance optimizations, and user experience design.
He likes the results of his work to be as straightforward and complete as possible and he expects this from his developers too.
Michael Kinkaid is a senior web applications developer and IT consultant from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He has been in the business for over 10 years. During this time, he has worked in software development, web development (frontend and backend), and even pulled a few thousand Cat 5E cables through attics.
Michael is currently based in Toronto, Canada, where he has led numerous Kentico projects. He is a certified Kentico trainer (developer and end user) who enjoys hearing the "oohs" and "aahs" when demoing the product. He is also a certified Kentico developer.
Lisa Mettam has a Bachelor's Degree in Music and an MBA. She took the less obvious career path and moved into website design and development. Over the course of that career, she has built and maintained websites for state and federal agencies, banks, university research centers, software companies, a museum, as well as smaller private companies, and individuals. A MacGyver-type developer, she creates graphics, code applications, writes support documentation, sets up web servers and databases, and generally fixes website problems wherever they pop up. And while she has yet to fix a server with duct-tape, a paperclip, and a stick of gum, she has been known to spend a day soldering cables when needed.
Scott Morschhauser is a .Net Developer for Sedona Technologies in Moline, IL. He is a Kentico Certified Developer, Kentico Certified CMS Developer Trainer, and Kentico Certified CMS Content Administrator Trainer. Scott has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Gannon University and over 25 years of experience as a software developer.
Richard Pendergast has been working with Kentico CMS for over 3 years, and with the Microsoft .Net Framework for well over 9 years. His latest company Coder Ants works with advertising agencies and design firms, introducing the Kentico CMS as a key component of a set of agency best practices.
His experience working with other companies and assisting with their Kentico implementations has seen him work with almost every facet of the Kentico CMS, and with developers and designers of wildly varying capabilities.
He is an avid supporter of anything that assists, educates, or encourages the Kentico community, and in 2009 he founded a magazine to this end—Kentico Developer magazine—which saw him receive the first Kentico MVP award and introduced him to Thom Robbins.