Mauricio Dinarte is a senior software engineer with more than a decade of web development experience. He enjoys working with Drupal, React.js and WordPress. As an active member of these open source communities, Mauricio gives back by contributing code, writing documentation, mentoring people, and organizing events. His passion for teaching and traveling has led him to present dozens of talks and workshops at events all over the world, including DrupalCon and WordCamp US.

Mauricio holds a master's degree in business administration. He spends his free time reading, learning French, and blogging at UnderstandDrupal.com

Mauricio Dinarte is a senior software engineer with more than a decade of web development experience. He enjoys working with Drupal, React.js and WordPress. As an active member of these open source communities, Mauricio gives back by contributing code, writing documentation, mentoring people, and organizing events. His passion for teaching and traveling has led him to present dozens of talks and workshops at events all over the world, including DrupalCon and WordCamp US.

Mauricio holds a master's degree in business administration. He spends his free time reading, learning French, and blogging at UnderstandDrupal.com

Michael E. Meyers joined Tag1 Consulting as Managing Director in 2017 after a decade of working with the team on many projects.

Prior to joining Tag1, Michael was VP of Developer Relations at Acquia, responsible for developer marketing & events, developer relations, and helped launch the developer products group. Michael co-founded & was CTO of NowPublic.com, the first venture-backed Drupal based startup that pioneered citizen journalism. With the help of Tag1, he grew NowPublic into a top 500 website. As CTO of The Clarity Digital Group, which acquired NowPublic, Michael and the Tag1 team rebuilt Examiner.com, the first Drupal-based top 100 Internet site, and the leading contributor to Drupal 7.

Michael has made major contributions to and helped establish Drupal as one of the most successful open source platforms; He’s an advisor to the Drupal Association board and several startup companies.

Janez was first exposed to free software in elementary school and has been passionate about it since. He has been involved with Drupal since his introduction while completing a computer science degree. Between 2010 and 2012 he led the transition to Drupal 7 at one of the biggest publishing companies in Slovenia. After that he joined Examiner.com which was the biggest Drupal website at the time. He started contributing to Drupal 8 early in the release cycle and due to his experience in the publishing industry became active in the media initiative and eventually became its lead. Janez is, besides free software and Drupal, passionate about challenging technical problems, complex computer systems, management processes, investing, and most sports that include putting some kind of a board below one's feet.

Janez was first exposed to free software in elementary school and has been passionate about it since. He has been involved with Drupal since his introduction while completing a computer science degree. Between 2010 and 2012 he led the transition to Drupal 7 at one of the biggest publishing companies in Slovenia. After that he joined Examiner.com which was the biggest Drupal website at the time. He started contributing to Drupal 8 early in the release cycle and due to his experience in the publishing industry became active in the media initiative and eventually became its lead. Janez is, besides free software and Drupal, passionate about challenging technical problems, complex computer systems, management processes, investing, and most sports that include putting some kind of a board below one's feet.

Lynette has been part of the Drupal community since Drupalcon Brussels in 2006. She comes from a technical support background, from front-line to developer liaison, giving her a strong understanding of the user experience. She took the next step by writing the majority of Drupal's Building Blocks, focused on some of the most popular Drupal modules at the time. From there, she moved on to working as a professional technical writer, spending seven years at Acquia, working with nearly every product offering. As a writer, her mantra is "Make your documentation so good your users never need to call you."

Lynette lives in San Jose, California where she is a knitter, occasionally a brewer, a newly-minted 3D printing enthusiast, and has too many other hobbies. She also homeschools her two children, and has three house cats, two porch cats, and two rabbits.

Lynette has been part of the Drupal community since Drupalcon Brussels in 2006. She comes from a technical support background, from front-line to developer liaison, giving her a strong understanding of the user experience. She took the next step by writing the majority of Drupal's Building Blocks, focused on some of the most popular Drupal modules at the time. From there, she moved on to working as a professional technical writer, spending seven years at Acquia, working with nearly every product offering. As a writer, her mantra is "Make your documentation so good your users never need to call you."

Lynette lives in San Jose, California where she is a knitter, occasionally a brewer, a newly-minted 3D printing enthusiast, and has too many other hobbies. She also homeschools her two children, and has three house cats, two porch cats, and two rabbits.

Lynette has been part of the Drupal community since Drupalcon Brussels in 2006. She comes from a technical support background, from front-line to developer liaison, giving her a strong understanding of the user experience. She took the next step by writing the majority of Drupal's Building Blocks, focused on some of the most popular Drupal modules at the time. From there, she moved on to working as a professional technical writer, spending seven years at Acquia, working with nearly every product offering. As a writer, her mantra is "Make your documentation so good your users never need to call you."

Lynette lives in San Jose, California where she is a knitter, occasionally a brewer, a newly-minted 3D printing enthusiast, and has too many other hobbies. She also homeschools her two children, and has three house cats, two porch cats, and two rabbits.

Preston is a product strategist, developer advocate, speaker, and author of Decoupled Drupal in Practice (Apress, 2018).

A globally recognized voice on decoupled Drupal and subject matter expert in the decentralized web and conversational design, Preston is Editor in Chief at Tag1 Consulting and Principal Product Manager at Gatsby, where he works on improving the Gatsby developer experience and driving product development.

Having spoken at over 50 conferences, Preston is a sought-after presenter with keynotes on five continents and in three languages.