Chris Tankersley is a PHP Developer living in Northwest Ohio. He has been developing PHP applications for more than ten years, across a wide variety of frameworks and business needs. In addition to programming, Chris manages hosting and server deployments for developers that are looking for more than just what basic hosting provides. He currently spends most of his time working with Sculpin, Zend Framework 2, and Drupal.

Chris is also an author of many PHP articles for php[architect], as well as a speaker, traveling around the US giving talks at many PHP-base conferences. Chris also helped found the Northwest Ohio PHP User Group. Chris is the PHP FIG representative for Sculpin, a static site generator written in PHP, and the lead developer for the PHP Mentoring website.