Meet the Team

2018 Web Development and UX Conference by Northeast PHP

September 19-21 2018, Copley Place, Boston

Bobby Cahill

Bobby Cahill is a full-stack engineer at Wayfair building and maintaining the largest online-only retailer for home in the US.  He is an organizer of Boston PHP, the largest active PHP user group in the US and has been volunteering as a member of the Northeast PHP  organizer team since its inception. Bobby is the creator of the open source web app Projectify and has previous software experience in the Supply Chain and Healthcare industries.

Bobby is a life-learner and a hacker by nature and strives to create usable, secure, high-performance applications and to make the complex increasingly simple. He is a big fan of MVC(-ish) design patterns due to his admitted lack of graphic design/layout ability. In his free time he controls his minor gaming addiction by supporting the open-source community and injuring himself on the basketball court, or as some generously call it, “playing basketball”.

Bobby is @BobbyCahillJr on Twitter and blogs at bobbycahill.com

Lincoln Maskey

Lincoln has been working professionally with PHP for almost 15 years. He is presently the president of the Atlantic PHP user group based in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island and this is the fifth year of his involvement with Northeast PHP.

David Kelleher

David Kelleher is a college professor, multimedia artist, and freelance PHP/MySQL and UI developer with 15 years of industry experience. He has taught courses and given talks on diverse topics ranging from database optimization to visual effects production. David loves the intersection of the arts and emerging technologies, working on projects like a juggling gesture interface for electronic music theater and an interactive overhead video canopy.

Michael Stowe

Author of Undisturbed REST, Michael Stowe has spoken at conferences around the world. An active advocate for creating better architectures and interfaces, his work has also been featured on ProgrammableWeb, DZone, and InfoQ. You can view his past talks and slides at http://www.mikestowe.com/slides and follow him on Twitter @mikegstowe.

Kristin Boggio

Kristin is a scientist by day and a novice coder and artist by night. A Ph.D. Research Scientist in pharmaceuticals, Kristin specializes in mass spectrometry and the analysis of biotherapeutics. She has spoken about her science worldwide and is a member of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, Human Proteome Organization, and the Greater Boston Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group. After work, Kristin finds both frustration and accomplishment in teaching herself R and Python and likes to leave all the analytical of the day behind by indulging her love for painting, tennis, boxing, and basketball.

Joel Lord

Joel Lord is passionate about IoT, AI, JavaScript and the web in general. In his spare time, Joel shares his findings via his blog Javascript Everything.

He is currently a Technical Evangelist at Auth0, is a part-time teacher at the Algonquin College in programming and is involved in various developer communities of the Ottawa-Gatineau area. He is also involved with OSMI, which helps to fight the stigma around mental health issues in the workplace, by sharing his personal experience.

Theodore Stepanoff

I have been working with PHP since 2003. I started in college on my own projects. Since then, I have upgraded from PHP 5.0 all the way to PHP 7.2. Today I manage a small team of developers for a non-profit. We use AWS, ZF3, Angular4, MongoDB, MySql, Haproxy, and other technologies to make our site work, and stay up reliably. I have been a manager for 4 years, and have learned a lot about hiring and how to deal with issues both in the development process and with people. I love to learn about new technologies and features that are coming out and make use of them where appropriate.