Larry Masters

CakeDC president Larry Masters is a founder of the CakePHP project, first released in May 2005, and has served as a lead developer ever since. He has been involved in Open Source development for many years, dating back to his first contributions made to osCommerce. Prior to developing the CakePHP framework and starting the Cake Software Foundation he was a core developer of PostNuke, now continued as Zikula. He has 28 years experience in software development, system administration, and database design, and is a veteran of Desert Shield andDesert Storm, where he was an engineer in the United States Marine Corps. His passion for excellence is shown in the code he writes and time dedicated to the CakePHP framework development over the past 11 years.