Christopher Pecoraro is an experienced software engineer, speaker (phpDay 2014, PHP UK 2015, and LaravelDay), and author (Mastering Laravel, Packt Publishing) from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with more than twenty years of experience building web applications. He holds a B.S. degree in Computing & Information Science from Saint Vincent College in Latrobe Pennsylvania. His research work has been published in peer-reviewed publications and is a contributor to open source projects.