Dan Yoder

Chief Panda

Dan has over three decades of experience in all aspects of the software industry. Besides hacking and blogging, Dan enjoys fine spirits and the beaches of Santa Monica, and is the author of a techno-thriller about quantum computing.

Jessica Weil

Engagement Manager

Jessica is an Internet vet who has provided strategic management and subject matter expertise (content, product, marketing) for organizations of all sizes, including major media networks, agencies, foundations and startups. Jessica is instrumental in making sure our client engagements run smoothly, which means if you hire us, you get to work with her, so, well played.

Adele Yoder

Executive Administrator

Adele keeps the Panda Strike machine running like clockwork. She is also the head of the party planning committee. Her tacos are legendary amongst Pandas and a crucial strategic advantage in recruiting. She is Mexicana to her bones, and believes Mexico will win every World Cup yet to be played.

Jason Rush

Technical Staff

Jason comes from a background in Ruby and Rails, Android, IoT, and Web HCI. He lives in Colorado, where he enjoys skiing, mountain biking, and many other mountain sports. Like Dan and Joseph, Jason also writes fiction (specializing in horror). He's working on his first novel and one of his short stories was featured on the award-winning horror fiction podcast Pseudopod.

Michael Fleet

Technical Staff

Michael has been playing appsec defense in fintech for over 15 years, including as a lead Senior Associate at Chase. He is a polyglot when it comes to hackery, with expertise on a variety of platforms, including Rails, Node, HTTP APIs, and Docker. He's also a gamer, musician and spends his weekends teaching kids about robots and electronics.

Lance Lakey

Technical Staff

Lance Lakey brings nearly two decades of experience in dev ops and Internet security. He has extensive experience with cloud computing, including continuous integration and deployment, auto-scaling, security, and high-availability. Lance enjoys a compelling variety of anime series, has an encyclopedic knowledge of Avatar: The Last Airbender (and no, of course not the movie) and has been known to channel the soul of Bennie Goodman.

Joseph Lepis

Technical Staff

Joseph is a full-stack developer with more than two decades experience, with particular expertise in Ruby/Rails, React, and GraphQL . He lives in Hawaii, and does, in fact, surf and say things like aloha. He's another one of our stable of novelists, specializing in crime fiction.

Matthew King

Technical Staff

Matthew has nearly two decades as a full-stack developer, with a focus on Ruby/Rails, Node, HTTP APIs, and security. He's also the author JSCK and Patchboard, the precursor to Panda Sky. Matthew is sci-fi nerd and makes his own mead.

Oscar A Rodriguez

Technical Staff

Oscar is a former PHP developer who converted to Ruby and Rails. There are many like him, but he is ours. (He's also worked in Objective-C, Swift, and Java.) Oscar also co-founded Bruiserfit, a fitness platform available on the Web, App Store, and Google Play Store, and you should totally use it. Oscar believes wholeheartedly that we stand on the shoulders of giants and that The Wire is the best show ever. He is, of course, correct on both counts.

Parima Shah

Technical Staff

Parima is a full-stack developer with expertise in Ruby/Rails, IoT, security, and just “getting shit done.” She attended the University of California, Berkeley and San Diego, graduating at the top of her class with a dual degree in Computer Science and Cognitive Science. She enjoys traveling and yoga.

Alexander Barbara

Technical Staff

Alexander is a full-stack developer with more than decade of experience and a degree from Cornell. His expertise includes Ruby/Rails, ecommerce, and nuclear submarines. He helped Gucci build a ground-breaking consumer shoppng experience. He also built EasyTweets.com, which, in its heyday was reviewed by Mashable, who concluded that it was “almost perfect.”

Toby Miller

Technical Staff

As a seasoned technologist with more than two decades in the business, Toby is devoted to applying technology to create solutions and destroy boundaries.

Rachel Cherry

Technical Staff

Rachel has more than a decade of experience in back and front-end web development and digital design. Rachel enjoys building an accessible, open web and is fond of using WordPress. (To learn more about accessibility, the WPCampus community has curated an extensive list of resource.) Rachel is a frequent speaker at various WordPress, higher ed, and technology-related events and a Women Who WP board member. In her spare time, Rachel is a fitness junkie who loves to tweet, travel, and binge-watch old TV shows.

Jake Sower

Technical Staff

Jake has over a decade of experience with a focus on Ruby on Rails, React, and HTTP APIs. He's the creator of a popular course on JavaScript and an interest in functional programming, possibly explained by his degree Mathematics. He will, tragically, be risking Adele's wrath by rooting for Argentina in the World Cup.

Greg Fisher

Technical Staff

Greg is a full-stack developer with expertise in Ruby/Rails. Since 2008 he has lived abroad in Santiago, Chile with his family where he has stubbornly refused to learn what differentiates good wine from bad. Besides programming, Greg enjoys spending time with his family, watching the beautiful game (YNWA), and reading all sorts of fiction and non-fiction.