Patrick Meenan (http://blog.patrickmeenan.com/) (@patmeenan) created WebPagetest (http://www.webpagetest.org/) while working at AOL and now works at Google with the team that is working to make the Web faster (http://code.google.com/speed/).
Nicholas C. Zakas (http://www.nczonline.net/) (@slicknet) is chief architect of WellFurnished, a site dedicated to helping you find beautiful home decor. Prior to that, he worked at Yahoo! for almost five years, where he was a presentation architect, frontend lead for the Yahoo! homepage, and a contributor to the YUI library. He is the author of Maintainable JavaScript (OâReilly, 2012), Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (Wrox, 2012), Professional Ajax (Wrox, 2007), and High Performance JavaScript (OâReilly, 2010). Nicholas is a strong advocate for development best practices including progressive enhancement, accessibility, performance, scalability, and maintainability. He blogs regularly at http://www.nczonline.net/.
Guy Podjarny (http://blaze.io/) (@guypod) is Web Performance and Security expert, specializing in Mobile Web Performance, CTO at Blaze. Guy spent the last decade prior to Blaze as a Software Architect and Web Application Security expert, driving the IBM Rational AppScan product line from inception to being the leading Web Application Security assessment tool. Guy has filed over 15 patents, presented at numerous conferences, and has published several professional papers.
Stoyan Stefanov (http://phpied.com/) (@stoyanstefanov) is a Facebook engineer, former Yahoo! writer (âJavaScript Patternsâ, âObject-Oriented JavaScriptâ), speaker (JSConf, Velocity, Fronteers), toolmaker (Smush.it, YSlow 2.0), and a Guitar Hero wannabe (http://givepngachance.com/).
Tim Kadlec (http://timkadlec.com) (@tkadlec) is web developer living and working in northern Wisconsin. His diverse background working with small companies to large publishers and industrial corporations has allowed him to see how the careful application of web technologies can impact businesses of all sizes.
Tim organizes Breaking Development (http://bdconf.com), a biannual conference dedicated to web design and development for mobile devices.
He is currently writing a book entitled Implementing Responsive Design: Building Sites for an Anywhere, Everywhere Web (http://responsiveenhancement.com), due out in the fall of 2012.
Brian Pane (http://www.brianp.net/) (@brianpane) is an Internet technology and product generalist. He has worked at companies including Disney, CNET, F5, and Facebook; and all along the way heâs jumped at any opportunity to make software faster.
Josh Fraser (http://onlineaspect.com/) (@joshfraser) is the co-founder and CEO of Torbit, a company that automates front-end optimizations that are proven to increase the speed of your website. Josh graduated from Clemson University with a BS in computer science and previously founded a company called EventVue. He currently lives in Mountain View and is obsessed with speed.
Steve Souders (http://stevesouders.com/) (@souders) works at Google (http://www.google.com/) on web performance and open source initiatives. His book, High Performance Web Sites, explains his best practices for performance; it was #1 in Amazonâs Computer and Internet bestsellers. His follow-up book, Even Faster Web Sites, provides performance tips for todayâs Web 2.0 applications. Steve is the creator of YSlow, the performance analysis extension to Firebug, with over 2 million downloads. He also created Cuzillion, SpriteMe, and Browserscope. He serves as co-chair of Velocity, the web performance and operations conference from OâReilly, and is co-founder of the Firebug Working Group. He taught CS193H: High Performance Web Sites at Stanford, and frequently speaks at conferences including OSCON, The Ajax Experience, SXSW, and Web 2.0 Expo.
Betty is a Software Development Manager at Amazon. Prior to that, she led the Exceptional Performance Engineering team at Yahoo! and drove the engineering execution and development for Yahoo!'s top Web Performance products like YSlow and Roundtrip.
Betty is also an evangelist in the Web Performance Optimization domain. She has spoken at Velocity Conferences, the Yahoo! Frontend Summit, and universities such as Georgia Tech, Duke, UIUC, University of Texas at Austin, and UCSD. She was also co-President of Yahoo! Women-in-Tech, a 600+ members organization that empowers women to succeed in their career, foster employee growth, and inspire young girls to pursue technical careers.
Israel Nir (@shunra) likes to create stuff, break other stuff apart, code, the number 0x17, and playing the ukulele. He also works as a team leader at Shunra, where he builds tools to make applications run faster.
Marcel Duran (http://javascriptrules.com/) is currently a Front End Engineer at Twitter, Inc. Prior to that, he was into web performance optimization on high traffic sites at Yahoo! Front Page and Search teams where he applied and researched web performance best practices making pages even faster. On his last role as the Front End Lead for Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance Team, he was dedicated to YSlow (now as his personal open source project) and other performance tools development, researches, and evangelism.
Ãric Daspet (http://eric.daspet.name/) (@edasfr) is a web consultant in France. He wrote about PHP, founded Paris-Web conferences to promote web quality, and is now pushing performance with a local user group and a future book.
Alois Reitbauer (http://blog.dynatrace.com/) (@aloisreitbauer) works as Technology Strategist for dynaTrace software and heads the dynaTrace Center of Excellence. As a major contributor to dynaTrace Labs technology he influences the companies future technological direction. Besides his engineering work, he supports Fortune 500 companies in implementing successful performance management.
Matthew Prince (http://www.cloudflare.com/) (@eastdakota) is the co-founder & CEO of CloudFlare. Matthew wrote his first computer program when he was 7, and hasnât been able to shake the bug since. After attending the University of Chicago Law School, he worked as an attorney for one day before jumping at the opportunity to be a founding member of a tech startup. He hasnât looked back. CloudFlare is Matthewâs third entrepreneurial venture. On the side, Matthew teaches Internet law as an adjunct professor, is a certified ski instructor and regular attendee of the Sundance Film Festival.
Buddy Brewer (@bbrewer) is a co-founder of Log Normal, a company that shows you exactly how much time real people spend waiting on your website. He has worked on web performance issues in various roles for almost ten years.
The last fourteen years Alex Podelko (http://alexanderpodelko.com/blog/) (@apodelko) worked as a performance engineer and architect for several companies. Currently he is Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle, responsible for performance testing and optimization of Hyperion products. Alex currently serves as a director for the Computer Measurement Group (CMG). He maintains a collection of performance-related links and documents.
Estelle Weyl (http://www.standardista.com/) (@estellevw) started her professional life in architecture, then managed teen health programs. In 2000, she took the natural step of becoming a web standardista. She has consulted for Kodakgallery, Yahoo! and Apple, among others. Estelle provides tutorials and detailed grids of CSS3 and HTML5 browser support in her blog. She is the author of Mobile HTML5 (OâReilly, Oct. 2011) and HTML5 and CSS3 for the Real World (Sitepoint, May 2011). While not coding, she works in construction, de-hippifying her 1960s throwback abode.
Aaron Peters (http://www.aaronpeters.nl/en/) (@aaronpeters) is an independent web performance consultant based in The Netherlands. He is a Red Hot Chili Peppers fan and will kick your butt in a snowboard contest anytime.
Tony Gentilcore (@tonygentilcore) is a software engineer at Google. He enjoys making the Web faster and has recently added support for Web Timing and async scripts to Google Chrome/WebKit.
Matthew Steele is a software engineer at Google, working on making the Web faster. Matthew has worked on Page Speed for Firefox and Chrome, has contributed to mod_pagespeed, and most recently, has led design and development of mod_spdy for Apache.
Bryan McQuade (@bryanmcquade) leads the Page Speed team at Google. He has contributed to various projects that make the Web faster, including Shared Dictionary Compression over HTTP and optimizing web servers to better utilize HTTP.
Tobie Langel (http://tobielangel.com/) (@tobie) is a Software engineer at Facebook. Heâs also Facebookâs W3C AC Rep. An avid open-source contributor (https://github.com/tobie), heâs mostly known for having co-maintained the Prototype JavaScript Framework. Tobie recently picked up blogging again and rants at blog.tobie.me (http://blog.tobie.me/). In a previous life, he was a professional jazz drummer.
If there is one thing Billy Hoffman believes in, itâs transparency. In fact, he once got sued over it, but that is another story. Billy continues to push for transparency as founder and CEO of Zoompf, whose products provide visibility into your websiteâs performance by identifying the specific issues that are slowing your site down. You can follow Zoompf on Twitter (http://twitter.com/zoompf) and read Billyâs performance research on Zoompfâs blog Lickity Split (http://zoompf.com/blog).
Joshua Bixby (@JoshuaBixby) is president of Strangeloop (http://www.strangeloopnetworks.com/), which provides website acceleration solutions to companies like eBay/PayPal, Visa, Petco, Wine.com, and OâReilly Media. Joshua also maintains the blog Web Performance Today (http://www.webperformancetoday.com/), which explores issues and ideas about site speed, user behavior, and performance optimization.
Sergey Chernyshev (http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/) (@sergeyche) organizes New York Web Performance Meetup and helps other performance enthusiasts around the world start meetups in their cities. Sergey volunteers his time to run @perfplanet Twitter companion to PerfPlanet site. He is also an open source developer and author of a few web performance-related tools including ShowSlow, SVN Assets, drop-in .htaccess, and more.
JP Castro (@jphpsf) is a frontend engineer living in San Francisco. Heâs passionate about web development and specifically web performance. He blogs at http://blog.jphpsf.com and co-organizes the San Francisco performance meetup. When heâs not talking about performance, he enjoys spending time with his family, being outdoors, sipping craft beers, consuming a full jar of Nutella, and playing video games.
Pavel Paulau (@pavelpaulau) is a performance engineer from Minsk, Belarus. Besides his daily work at Couchbase (http://www.couchbase.com), he tries to spread importance of speed as co-author of the WebPerformance.ru blog (http://webperformance.ru/).
David Calhoun (@franksvalli) is an independent frontend developer who has been splitting his time between California and Japan. Heâs the community news writer for JSMag and keeps a blog (http://davidbcalhoun.com/) with developer and general life thoughts (hard to put that philosophy degree to useâ¦).
David specializes in mobile, frontend performance, and sure enough, mobile performance. He formerly worked for Yahoo! Mobile, CBSi/CNET, occasionally contracts for WebMocha, and is currently contracting at Skybox Imaging, working on interfaces for flying satellites from browsers.
Nicole Sullivan (http://stubbornella.org/) (@stubbornella) is an evangelist, frontend performance consultant, CSS Ninja, and author. She started the Object-Oriented CSS open source project, which answers the question: how do you scale CSS for millions of visitors or thousands of pages? She also consulted with the W3C for their beta redesign, and is the co-creator of Smush.it, an image optimization service in the cloud.
Nicole is passionate about CSS, web standards, and scalable frontend architecture for large commercial websites. She speaks about performance at conferences around the world, most recently at The Ajax Experience, ParisWeb, and Web Directions North. She co-authored Even Faster Websites and blogs at stubbornella.org.
James (http://tripleodeon.com/) (@jamespearce) is Head of Mobile Developer Relations at Facebook. He lives in California and in airports around the world.
Tom (http://tomhughescroucher.com/) (@sh1mmer) is the principal consultant at Jetpacks for Dinosaurs, which helps make websites really rather fast. Tom consults with clients like Walmart and MySpace to name a few. An industry veteran, Tom has worked for the likes of Yahoo!, Joyent, NASA, Tesco, and many more. Tom co-authored Up and Running with Node.js and lives in San Francisco, CA.
David Artz leads the Site Engineering team at AOL. He led AOLâs Optimization team in the pastâa team focused on setting standards and developing best practices in frontend engineering, performance, and SEO across the teams he now leads. While managing multiple teams, he has continued to develop script/CSS/font loaders as part of his Boot library (https://github.com/artzstudio/Boot), an AMD loader for jQuery (https://github.com/artzstudio/jQuery-AMD), and a jQuery plug-in called Sonar (https://github.com/artzstudio/jQuery-Sonar) for easily loading content and functionality in on demand using special âscrollinâ and âscrolloutâ events.
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