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PunBB Development Team
We get a lot of reasonable questions like: who are you? where did you come from? what are your intentions? do you prefer beer over wine? Step by step we give the answers to you. We’d like to be more open to PunBB community and to show you our interest and experience in PunBB development. This page is intended to let you “touch and feel” us. Here we are.
Slava Kasyanov
PunBB leading developer
Student of Dubna University of Nature, Society and Man
I study at the department of application informatics now and I am very fond of what I’m doing. Before working for PunBB, I was a developer of an online GIS and gained quite a lot of experience in PHP, Ajax, CSS and HTML technologies. I was happy to be involved in that project and to realize that pure IT knowledge can be of practical use to many people.
I’ve been part of PunBB team since April 2008. Here, I am engaged in code enhancement and extension development of the forum. I find it interesting to improve the forum making it better in comparison to other forums in terms of speed and lightweightness (at the very least ;) ).
Roman Parpalak
PunBB extensions and core developer
Student of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
I have been fond of programming for a long time. When I entered MIPT 6 years ago, I didn’t even guess that in a year I would take a keen interest in web-development. I joined the PunBB team in March 2008 and have been writing extensions and working on the forum core since then. I like challenging tasks that require non-standard thinking and I’m always ready to deal with them however time-consuming they turn out to be. However, such tasks don’t turn up very often, so I have to settle for mundane ones ;) The thing that comforts me is that this routine will hopefully help me become a web-professional 
I try to spend my spare time reading (Erle Stanley Gardner, Arthur Hailey) or watching films. I even have a movie-blog where I write impressions of movies I have seen. Now I see season 8 of the television series 24. Unfortunately, I have less and less spare time day by day.
Gordey Simonov
PunBB extensions developer
Dubna University of Nature, Society and Man graduate.
Joined the PunBB team in October 2009. I write expansions for punBB. Skilled in PHP, JavaScript, Ajax, CSS, HTML, MySQL and other web development technologies.
Love extreme sports. A BMX and snowboard rider. Also an R'n'B and Turntablism DJ - organise parties and act in various clubs all over the country.
My Site
PunBB Forums User Profile
skype:gordei4ik
Gabriel Garcia
PunBB extension developer and an active contributor
Amateur Web Developer and High School Student
Since October 2008, I have been helping the community, aiding them on their journey with PunBB. My skills include PHP, JavaScript, CSS and some MySQL.
On my free time I like to visit Digg, play games, and improve my site. I also like to play the guitar when no one's around. I like rain, small dogs, blue, Green Day, and the internet.
Matthew Hutchings
PunBB support manager
Student of Coulsdon College
Since February 2007, I have been using PunBB for all my sites. I have learnt all my PHP and MySQL skills by using PunBB. Started asking simple questions at to why my modifications to PunBB didn’t work, as I was determined to make my own website. I stuck with it, installing and developing mods and editing them to my needs. Slowly I started to gain a good amount of knowledge of PHP just by using PunBB.
At college studying BTEC National Diploma which covers all aspects of computers, including programming, and I cant wait to start that. My part time job is being an Apple Engineer.
Living in the college life means I have a fair amount of spare time on my hands which I use to go out and have the occasional drink, or two and spending the time with my girlfriend and college friends, who try to bleed me dry for the information for the coursework.
PunBB Forums User Profile
skype:utchin154
PunBB.NET development team
Alexey Pleshakov
PunBB.NET developer
Student of Dubna University of nature, society and man.
Started my work as PunBB developer 4 months ago. Before joining PunBB team used to work as Microsoft.NET developer for a year.
I like to spend my free time with close friends, love fishing, ice sakting, bikes ,horseback riding, volleyball, all active types af recreation. I like the sunny weather, sunsets at the seaside, mountains, russian winter. When the weather is not good enough to go outside i prefer staying at home reading a good book.
Enjoy different kinds of music. Prefer rock. Like watching movies. Especially histroical movies, based on real stories. Enjoy comedies (Jim Carrey).
I'm sure nothing is happening to us by chance , and try to find positive aspects in everything around.
Former PunBB development team
Rickard Andersson
The father of PunBB. PunBB Lead Developer from the start in 2003 to the April of 2008.
Other former PunBB team members
- Shawn Brown: Developer
- Connor Dunn: Developer (user profile)
- Frank Hagström: Developer (user profile)
- Kristoffer Jansson: Developer (user profile)
- Neal Poole: Developer (user profile)
- Paul Sullivan: Markup/CSS (user profile)
