Yannick Gingras is a senior developer with over ten years of experience. In addition to designing and developing Web services, he has managed teams, and has worked in the fields of machine learning, bioinformatics and e-commerce. He is an organizer of Montréal’s Python community, the co-chair of the PyCon conference, and a frequent contributor to free and open-source projects. After co-founding Ajah, a company that develops an interactive directory of funders for non-profits, he joined [...]

Martin Provencher (@vivrass) is the current president of Montreal.rb (@montrealrb, www.montrealonrails.com) – the Ruby and Ruby on Rails user group in Montreal. He graduated in Software Engineering from Sherbrooke University in 2009 and worked in different domains like telecommunication, social media and search engine. He is specialized in web application development principally on the user interface implementation.

With over a decade of Internet marketing and web design experience, Brian Rotsztein brings a seasoned approach to working with clients. He holds two Master’s degrees, has taught university courses, and provides training services for topics such as SEO and social media.

Mohammad Mannan is an Assistant Professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carleton University (2009) in the area of Internet authentication and usable security. He was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto from 2009 to 2011 (funded by an NSERC PDF and ISSNet). His research interests lie in the area of Internet [...]

Michel Paquette got his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada in 2010, under the supervision of Dr. Evangelos Kranakis and Dr. Andrzej Pelc. Previously, he obtained an M.Sc. in Computer Science at l’Université du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau, Canada in 2005. During his M.Sc., he worked under the supervision of Dr. Pelc and was a student member of the Research Chair in Distributed Computing at this university. He obtained his Bachelor of [...]

Stephen Cohen is a Mechanical Engineer with experience in the space industry.  He studied Mechanical Engineering at McGill University; his Masters thesis topic was “Space Elevator Dynamics”.  He teaches in the Physics Department at Vanier College, and operates a blog entitled “The Engineer’s Pulse,” which attempts to make science accessible to all.

Haritos Kavallos is a final year Computer Science undergraduate major specializing in Software Systems studying at Concordia University. He also works for Vanier College as a Web Developer. Since 2010, he is a Teaching Assistant for the Concordia Faculty of Engineering & Computer Science.  Haritos’ academic interests include Software Engineering, Cloud Computing, Web 2.0 and Database Design.