Philip Tellis (Sunnyvale, USA)
Philip Tellis is a geek who likes to make the computer do his work for him. As part of his job with the Exceptional Performance team at Yahoo! he analyses the impact of various design decisions on web application performance.Websites on Overdrive
Web performance is no longer a black art practiced only by the big boys in the business. Research and publications from all over the globe have made it fairly easy to hit the low hanging fruit of web performance, but these are early days still. The faster we make our websites, the richer and more engaging our user interfaces can turn, which eventually translates into longer user sessions, and higher profits. More...
Speaker Details
Philip maintains the javascript implementation of strftime used in YUI and plays around with security, accessibility and i18n. He is also the maintainer of several opensource projects including ayttm and libyahoo2.
Philip has spoken on various topics at several international conferences including Linux Bangalore, FOSS.IN, Freed.in, Ottawa Linux Symposium, Ubuntulive and Yahoo!'s Front end engineering conferences. He has covered topics ranging from opensource applications, education and new technological ideas, to project management and new web development technologies.
In his spare time, Philip enjoys cycling, reading, cooking and learning spoken languages.