About: Sean Stephens is the CEO of both Lassosoft and Treefrog, both innovative and leading technology and services companies, and a sought-after presenter on social technologies. From starting in the trenches of development, Sean has experienced all levels of life as a developer and business entrepreneur. 

Sean brings passion and enthusiasm to all aspects of business, web and coding excellence. His stated aim is for Lasso to become known as one of the Top Five Web Programming Languages. 

Sean along with wife Stephanie a graphic and interior designer took over Treefrog over 15 years ago, growing it into a flagship business for the Newmarket and York Region of Ontario. They enjoy life in Newmarket with their two children, Trinity and Kai, and dog Dante.

About: Kyle Jessup is the big brain behind the Lasso Code team, the 'benevolent dictator for life' as Sean likes to call him. Kyle has been a crucial part of the long life of the Lasso language, starting as a whiz kid in the 90's, and actively devours new technologies with a critical and analytical mind that finds joy in developing new and better ways of working with web servers and all levels of code.

Kyle lives with his wife Jennifer a ceramic artist, son Lincoln and daughter Tessa in Asheville, North Carolina. Hobbies include EVE and anything to do with the original Star Wars movies.

About: Dave Bruhn has been a Lasso developer since 2009, and is a Certified Lasso Developer.  He has been working for the North Carolina Hospital Association since 2008 as a Systems Analyst and webapp developer.  A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Dave majored in Psychology while he simultaneously started dabbling in his coding skills.

When Dave is not behind the keyboard, he is often found either umpiring on the softball field or at home with his wife Laura, their two cats Shadow and Radar, and their dog Chewie.

About: Jolle Carlestam is a highly experienced Lasso 9 developer working with Lasso 9 since it's Alpha stage. A significant contributor of many of the Lasso 9 specific types and methods on Tagswap, he has won the Lasso Values award at the 2012 LDC. Jolle has contributed substantially to the community via Lasso list and the Lasso documentation. And he has a very nice sense of humor that's not quirky at all.

About: Bil Corry is a noted champion of web security and works as an Information Security Engineer at PayPal. Bil is currently based in Luxembourg and has been a key part of the Lasso community for many years.

Bil is a contributor to WASC Threat Classification v2 project and a specialist in Information Security including access controls, disaster recovery, network security, web application security, PCI, application lifecycle, penetration testing and auditing. He is active in security research, and vocal about developers working thoughtfully and carefully on building secure systems. Bil is always ready with advice for those who ask - just search on Lassotalk to find lots of examples.

About: Jonathan (Jono) Guthrie is a Certified Lasso Developer and Software development manager for LassoSoft and sister company Treefrog Interactive. Originally based in New Zealand and with a Bachelor of Science in Analytical and Environmental Chemistry, he has taken his Lasso development skills around the globe working in Ireland, South Africa, and Canada. Jono has a broad and deep knowledge of server and system architectures and database design. He has spoken at several previous LDC's and readily shares Lasso knowledge. Jono has been using Lasso since version 3.6.

When not coding, Jono can be found cycling, mountain biking, coaching soccer or playing bass. In reality he writes code in his sleep.

About: Jim Leavitt is one of the longest standing Lasso users at Treefrog™. He contributes programming prowess across a range of technologies and into network/server maintenance. Graduating in Web Programming from Georgian College, he is formally trained on Visual Basic, Cobol, IBM Assembly, C, PHP, Perl, JAVA, JSP, HTML and Lasso. Jim is experienced in enterprise level systems and enjoys challenging the boundaries of how things are done such as in projects to deeply integrate new custom data sources from national and international systems with local client systems.

In his non-work time Jim keeps himself on the ball on the golf course and keeping fit.

About: Brad Lindsay graduated from Wheaton College in 2003, majoring in both Computer Science and Theology. He began work with the North Carolina Hospital Association in 2006, and it was here that he was required to learn Lasso. He quickly discovered that not only is Lasso a great tool for creating websites, but it has a wonderful community willing to share their knowledge and experience. Brad is currently a Certified Lasso Developer, a Lasso Beta Tester, and has worked to help document Lasso 9. He is also the creator and maintainer of lspec and query.

About: Ari Najarian is co-founder and president of Torusoft, a mobile IT consulting and development company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Originally professionally trained as a high school history teacher, Ari had an interest in programming since he was in Grade 8. Over the years, Ari moved from BASIC to VBScript, C/C++, Java, PHP and NodeJS. My hobby developed into a full-fledged career in 2009, when he inherited a large codebase written in Lasso 8.5. Since then, Ari has worked (in obscurity) on dozens of Lasso web applications, only just discovering the benefits of networking with the Lasso community at LDC 2013.

"It's great to be out of the wilderness, and among such a supportive network of professionals. Coding in Lasso and attending the LDC rejuvenated my interest in programming, and deepened my appreciation for Lasso's design."

About: Fletcher Sandbeck has been working with Lasso since 1997. He was a partner in LassoSoft prior to it being acquired by TreeFfog and also worked at OmniPilot and Blue World on Lasso and Lasso Studio. He currently works at Cumuli, Inc. shepherding web sites originally developed in Lasso 3.5 to a modern serving platform using cloud servers and Lasso 9. Fletcher has a degree in Mathematics from M.I.T. and currently lives in Manchester, Washington.

About: Tim Taplin has been a user of Lasso since its initial public release, and is a Certified Lasso Developer. A vocal proponent of Lasso9 , he has presented at Lasso Conferences since 2010. He continues to provide consulting services to a wide range of Lasso developers, developing custom code, optimizations as well as system setup and tuning.  Tim is a contributor to Lasso Reference documentation, active in the LassoTalk list and has developed custom iOS and Android applications utilizing Lasso backends.