Arnout Kazemier is a Software Engineer from the Netherlands. He was originally schooled as a multimedia designer, but quickly rolled in to the world of frontend development and started to appreciate the beauty of JavaScript. After finding out that it was also possible to write JavaScript on the server side, he started using Aptana Jaxer and Narwal in his spare time. It wasn't until much later that Arnout heard about Node.js and its possibilities, and decided to take it for a spin when version 0.1.3 was released. Since then, he has never looked back. When Arnout joined the first Node.js hackatron (Node Knockout 2010), he built a real-time heat mapping engine on Node.js using Socket.IO. During the programming contest he learned a lot about Socket.IO and solved tons of issues that he encountered during the development of his entry. When the contest ended, he didn't stop contributing to Socket.IO, eventually becoming the first core team member of Socket.IO. He has been talking at different tech conferences since. Fast forwarding to 2013, he now spends time working on his own startup website http://observe.it (it won Node Knockout 2011) which allows you to observe and learn from your user's behavior in real time. He's still actively involved with the development of Socket.IO and conducts research on the connectivity of the real-time web and the impact of firewalls & virus scanners.
Andrew Keig has been building cutting-edge web applications for over 12 years. Andrew is a director at airasoul.net, which he runs with his artist wife Rima. Airasoul specializes in the design and build of scalable, RESTful, specification-driven, real-time web and mobile-based applications on both the Node.js and .NET stacks.
Andrew has a degree in Computing, and blogs at blog.airasoul.net on topics he is passionate about, such as Node.js, REST, Web APIs and Behavior-Driven Development. Andrew contributes to various open source projects for Node.js and .NET.
Andrew lives in London with his family: wife Rima and his son and inspiration, Indie.