I'm CTO of DreamFactory, Inc., developer of the popular namesake API management platform. Prior to joining DreamFactory I spent two decades building solutions spanning the architectural, agricultural, publishing, and telecom industries.

I'm also author of several books, including:

• "Easy Laravel, Third Edition" (W.J. Gilmore, LLC)
• "Beginning PHP and MySQL, Fourth Edition" (Apress)
• "Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework, Second Edition" (W.J. Gilmore, LLC)
• "Easy PayPal with PHP" (W.J. Gilmore, LLC).
• "Easy Active Record for Rails Developers" (W.J. Gilmore, LLC)

I'm co-founder of the CodeMash Conference, although after 10 years I stepped away from daily involvement.