A veteran server troubleshooter who’s worked in enterprise IT for more than three decades, Charlie Arehart (@carehart) is a longtime community contributor who as an independent consultant provides remote, short-term, and even on-demand troubleshooting/tuning assistance for organizations of all sizes and experience levels (carehart.org/consulting).
Nolan Erck has been developing software for 19 years. Starting in the video game industry working on titles for Maxis and LucasArts, then advancing to web development in 1999, his list of credits includes Grim Fandango, StarWars Rogue Squadron, SimPark, SimSafari as well as high-traffic websites for clients.
Nolan manages the SacInteractive User Group, teaches classes on aspects of software development, and regularly gives presentations at conferences and user groups across the country.
When he’s not consulting or talking about himself in the third person, Nolan can usually be found working on one of several music projects.
Michael is developing CFML application for more than 20 years and installed his first ColdFusion Server (4.0) from floppy discs (can be seen in several museums). He developed applications for several customers using different Framworks and techniques.
He has been organizing the CFCamp for 12 years meanwhile.
In his free time he's playing ice hockey and golf.
Kai is one of the co-founders of and works as Software Solutions Architect for Ventego Creative Ltd in Wellington, New Zealand.
Kai got his first computer in 1985 and hasn’t stopped building things with technology since then.
As a software architect he works with a variety of clients to help them leverage technology to achieve their business visions and goals. He specialises in JVM-based technologies (like Java, Kotlin, Adobe ColdFusion, Railo and Lucee) and mobile application development with Android and Flutter.
Other areas of Kai’s interest are delivering education online, improving development teams’ performance through continuous integration and build processes, data science and machine learning technologies.
Kai regularly speaks at international conferences like Droidcon Berlin, Mobile Refresh Wellington, CF Camp in Germany, Android Makers in France and many others.
Hey there, my name is Max.
I've been a full stack Web Developer for a few years now. Although I've been enjoying working with CFML in my day job, I also try to stay curious about other topics. My wife and I live in good old Bavaria with our two cute doggos. Ask me about them when you meet me and I'll show you waaaay too many pictures of them on my phone.
With 20 years of Lucee and CFML expertise, including tenure at Adobe and as an Adobe-certified ColdFusion developer, I’ve contributed significantly to the community. My contributions span from open-source libraries like CbValidate to crafting essential tools like the CF Code Compliance Tool. I earned Guru and Masters certificates on Experts Exchange for my contributions to Lucee and CFML, awarded based on my articles and solutions shared on the platform.
I’ve also delved into areas like CF-Jedis integration and authored an ebook on personal productivity, “Manage Your Energy, Not Time,” available on Amazon. My extensive experience spans multiple countries, including India, Malaysia, the UK, the US, Cyprus, and Australia, where I’ve tackled diverse CF projects. I’ve shared insights through tech talks on topics ranging from OWASP security in CF, CF best practices, ColdFusion 2016 features, and best coding standards in CF.
At CFCAMP 2024, I presented on seamlessly integrating ChatGPT for content completion and chat assistance using the CF-ChatGPT-Bridge, an open-source library I developed.
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https://www.experts-exchange.com/members/srikanthmadishetti.html?cid=2035
Luis Majano is a Computer Engineer, published author, and founder and CEO of Ortus Solutions, Corp (www.ortussolutions.com), a consulting firm specializing in open-source tooling, web development, architecture, and professional open-source.
Since 2000, he has designed and worked with software architecture and technologies. He is passionate about learning and mentoring developers so they can succeed with sustainable software practices and the usage and development of open-source software.
He is the creator of ColdBox HMVC, ContentBox Modular CMS, TestBox BDD, CommandBox CLI, and over 200 open-source projects. He speaks regularly at several international conferences and blogs at www.luismajano.com.
Andrew has been developing web applications with CFML since 2000 across Finance, Real Estate, Accounting, and Music/Video Distribution business sectors as an employee and contractor.
As a huge fan of CFML, he has been a User Group Manager and Presenter at webDU and cf.Objective(ANZ) in Australian. Presenting at cfCamp continues his commitment of giving back to a community that he loves.
Marin Niehues (29) is the Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Business Consulting at PLOIN GmbH, a German boutique consultancy specializing in management and technology. With eight years of consulting experience - plus two startups of his own - he advises a broad portfolio from VC-backed scaleups to DAX40 corporations, focusing on organizational structures, organizational performance and vertical management practices. In the past three years, Marin has spoken at conferences in over ten countries and three continents, including events hosted by Google Canada and Microsoft USA.
Guust Nieuwenhuis is a Full Stack Web Wizard with experience in a wide range of technologies. Over the last couple of years, he has been involved in projects for various clients like the European Commission, NSHQ (NATO), Adobe, AS Adventure Group, NS (Dutch railways), CZ Groep, Proximus, Avery Dennison, ZilliZ and Mediagenix.
Through We Are North, he does ‘Customization-As-A-Service’. They don’t build from scratch, but find the best solutions out there and tailor them to their customers’ business needs. In doing so, they never lose sight of the goal of the client.
In his free time, Guust play the double bass and drums, cross the forest on his mountain bike and coaches the youth at his local football club (where he’s a board member as well). He likes spending time with his wife and two kids or meeting friends for a chat, game or drink.
When Guust still have some time left, he mainly spends it behind his computer to fulfil his hunger for the latest trends in IT.
Michael was born in Switzerland in 1973. In 1995 he left his job as an auto mechanic and found his way into the information technology during the dot-com hype.
In order to deal with the increasing requirements of the IT business next to the usual “learning by doing”, Michael earned his Master’s degree in I.T. as a Software Engineer at the Department of Engineering and Information Technology in Bern.
He started Railo as a diploma project where he was supposed to write a compiler for translating CFML into CFXD (Cold Fusion XML Document), an XML-based description language for Coldfusion. In late 2014 Michael left the Railo project. A few months later he started the Lucee project as a fork of the Railo LGPL code.
Michael is someone who puts his heart and soul into programming. He knows Coldfusion since version 3.0, and Java nearly as long as well. Michael lives with his wife Françoise and his 2 girls in the heart of the bernese alps in Switzerland.
Brian Reilly is Head of Security at DistroKid. He has over 25 years of experience in information security, working in various roles across the technology, financial services, government, and higher education sectors. He enjoys collaborating with product teams to build and deploy secure applications. When not breaking software, he prefers running, hiking, or playing tennis.
Sigal Shaharabani is a Technical Leader and a Group Leader in Tikal, with a great passion for backend and data systems. She started her technological career way back in 1996, working for the government, a variety of corporations, and small start-ups. Her favorite programming language is Kotlin, and will love any excuse to talk about it. In her spare time she enjoys swimming and Israeli folk dancing.
Lukas is an author, security evangelist, a database expert, and a frequent conference speaker. He runs one of the biggest & fastest data breach search engines in the world - BreachDirectory.com, frequently speaks at conferences and blogs in multiple places including his blog over at lukasvileikis.com.
Lukas is also the author of the book “Hacking MySQL: Breaking, Optimizing, and Securing MySQL for Your Use Case” with Apress.
Brad grew up in southern Missouri and after high school majored in Computer Science with a music minor at MidAmerica Nazarene University (Olathe, KS). Today he lives in Kansas City with his wife and three girls. Brad enjoys all sorts of international food and the great outdoors. Brad has been programming ColdFusion since 2001 and has used every version of CF since 4.5. He first fell in love with ColdFusion as a way to easily connect a database to his website for dynamic pages. He enjoys configuring and performance tuning high-availability Windows and Linux ColdFusion environments as well as SQL Server. Brad is the ColdBox Platform developer advocate at Ortus Solutions, lead developer of the CommandBox CLI, and Senior Architect of BoxLang.
