Kevin M. Kelly is an experienced web craftsman specializing in interface development, producing in areas such as ad agencies, e-commerce places, and government bodies. He has worked with companies such as Canadian Tire, Rogers, The Toronto Star, Nissan, and Mazooma. He is the cofounder of the coder-focused meetup, #devTO, and member of Multimedia Design and Production Technician Program Advisory Committeee at Humber Institute of Design and Advanced Learning. Kevin is passionate about the industry as well as his community.
Shawn McBurnie has been developing websites since the late 1990s. He is the principal developer at Nettercap, a promotion and development shop focused on traditional music and arts, and is a frontend developer for The Nerdery. He was also a technical reviewer for Sang Shin's HTML5 Mobile Development Cookbook.
When he's not programming, Shawn can be found performing with his band, Rumgumption, or teaching at the Center for Irish Music in Minnesota.
Volkan Özçelik is a frontend engineer living in Mountain View, in the middle of Silicon Valley. Since 2003, he has been creating client-heavy AJAX web applications. He loves to architect responsive and intuitive web components, driven by amazingly well-organized JavaScript code. He dreams of the death of Internet Explorer, and shudders at the horror of thousands of people still using the crazy thing, but tenaciously works around its quirks and gently aligns it with its more modern peers.
Volkan has a blog (http://o2js.com/) where he shares peculiarities, intricacies, best practices, patterns, use cases, and implementations of reusable, cross-platform, optimized JavaScript. He is also the author of a book JavaScript Interview Questions (http://o2js.com/interview-questions/).
Other than JavaScript, Volkan has experience with NoSQL data stores, ASP.net, C#, PHP, Java, Python, Django, Ruby, Objective C, and a variety of other languages and frameworks.
Volkan is currently a Software Engineer at Jive Software (http://www.jivesoftware.com); prior to that he was a JavaScript hacker at SocialWire (http://socialwire.com). He was the VP of Technology at GROU.PS (http://grou.ps) and also a JavaScript Engineer at LiveGO (a social mash-up that's gone to dead pool, R.I.P). He was the CTO of Turkey's largest business network cember.net (which got acquired by Xing A.G.).
When he's not satisfying his never-ending appetite to experiment with cutting-edge technologies and frameworks, Volkan loves to be with nature spending days away from anything digital; he's a trekking and camping enthusiast, and a keen lover of parrots.