Luke Welling
Raconteur, [Redacted]

Luke Welling is from Melbourne, Australia, but lives in rural Maryland.

He’s seen lots of good code and bad code, and tries to write more good than bad. Over the last decade, he has applied PHP in many places where it was intended, and in many places where it was never meant to go.

With his wife Laura, he wrote the bestselling book PHP and MySQL Web Development and often speaks about PHP at conferences and user groups. This is his 12th year speaking at OSCON.

His hobbies include riding his horses and sticking Splayds in toasters, although he has not yet attempted to do both at once.