Ioseb Dzmanashvili is the senior software architect at Picktek. He is one of the most known faces of open-source movement in Georgia with numerous contributions to various projects including Drupal, jQuery, Apache Jakarta Commons and Google Chrome.
Four Kitchens co-founder Todd Nienkerk has been involved in the web design and publishing industries since 1996. Since that time, he has designed and built countless websites and written for, edited, and managed several online and print publications.
I started my first Drupal site half a year ago only while living in Portugal: www.internationalhumanistparty.org without much previous programming experience. I learned a lot from the book Pro Drupal Development, and used that knowledge to develop a voting system for our organization's internal elections (national and international coordinating teams). I love Drupal and hope to get a job in the future. One of my interests is to develop a module that improves Drupal's multilingual features.
Brian Fending is the principal of Fending Group, LLC, based in Western New York (US). He hires ninjas to work on projects. He was the original architect of leeduser.com before starting the next phase of his Drupal adventure with his professional services firm. He manages http://groups.drupal.org/western-new-york and is active in the Curriculum and Training g.d.o group, as well.