PHP at Scale. The speakers will be discussing using PHP in high volume environments, the choices people made and why the made them, with Ian chairing the session.
Ian Barber
Ian is the development manager at Virgin Management in London, and has been working with PHP since 2002. He was formerly Delivery Manager for Ibuildings, where he worked with a variety of large enterprise clients across the UK and Europe. He is a regular conference speaker, and is interested in search, data processing, machine learning and natural language processing. Ian blogs about these topics and more on his site, PHP/ir.
Nikolay Bachiyski
I am Nikolay and I am long-time WordPress contributor. I spend my busy time working for Automattic – the company behind WordPress.com and other cool stuff. Although I am not a systems guy, I think more developers should be interested in servers and scaling – specialization is for insects.
I also teach at Sofia University, organize TEDxBG, and have a bear.
Rasmus Lerdorf
Rasmus Lerdorf is known for having gotten the PHP project off the ground in 1995 and has contributed to a number of other open source projects over the years. He was an infrastructure architect at Yahoo! for more than 7 years and most recently has been advising startups including WePay, Etsy, and Room77. He was born in Greenland, grew up in Denmark and Canada and has a Systems Design engineering degree from the University of Waterloo.
You can follow @rasmus on Twitter.
Hugh Williams
VP, Experience, Search, and Platforms
eBay
Hugh Williams has spent nearly twenty years researching and developing search engines and web services. He is the Vice President of Search, Experience, and Platforms at eBay Inc., where his responsibilities include eBay’s search engine, most of eBay’s global user experiences, and eBay’s platforms. He previously managed a large R&D team at Microsoft’s Bing, and prior to that was a tenured professor in Australia. He has published over 100 works, mostly in the field of Information Retrieval, and including two books: “Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL” and “Learning Mysql” for O’Reilly Media Inc. He holds 5 patents and has 25 patents pending. He has a PhD from RMIT University in Australia.