Speaker

Larry Garfield

Larry Garfield

Director of Developer Experience at Platform.sh; aspiring blacksmith; ethical troublemaker

Evanston, Illinois, United States

Larry Garfield has been building websites since he was a sophomore in high school, which is longer ago than he'd like to admit. Larry was an active Drupal contributor and consultant for over a decade, and led the Drupal 8 Web Services initiative that helped transform Drupal into a modern PHP platform.

Larry is Director of Developer Experience at Platform.sh, a leading continuous deployment cloud hosting company. He is also a member of the PHP-FIG Core Committee.

Larry holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from DePaul University. He blogs at both https://platform.sh/ and https://www.garfieldtech.com/.

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • PHP
  • Management
  • Change Management
  • Cloud
  • Free Software
  • OpenSource

Larry Garfield

Director of Developer Experience at Platform.sh; aspiring blacksmith; ethical troublemaker

Evanston, Illinois, United States