Alex de Azevedo is an undergraduate student in computer science in Brazil. He is very talented in database technologies, ORM and implementation issues related to multi-database development. Alex has used Joomla! to develop Web sites but has not yet developed using Joomla!'s application architecture. He is eager to put six years of PHP development experience to use with the new Joomla! framework, to start an open source development career and to be a part of the Google Summer of Code program.

Mentor: Anthony Ferrara is the team lead of the Joomla! Bug Squad, and a member of the Joomla! Developer and Joomla! Extension Directory teams. He started with Mambo in 2005 and has continued with Joomla! providing the community with JoomlaPerformance, caching extensions, and his assistance. Professionally, Anthony is a PHP developer and MySQL DBA. He is a fire department volunteer, a pilot, and one who loves learning, with interests in math, physics, programming, music, good beer, and life.