Laurent wrote his first file management software, ABC Base, in 1983. A year later, he created the company ACI, known today as 4D. As an innovator, Laurent is responsible for many industry “firsts,” including the first graphical relational database management system in 1985. For the past two years, Laurent and his 4D team have focused on JavaScript as the preferred language to develop rich business web applications. As his new “first,” Laurent is introducing Wakanda, the first unified open-source development platform that includes a client framework, graphical IDE, datastore and server-side technology to develop business Web applications entirely in JavaScript.

Greg McCarvell – Wakanda developer, CommissionFocus

Greg McCarvell has a diverse business background equally focused on technology as sales and marketing. Beginning in the mid 1990s as a database developer, Greg’s roles have included Web developer, salesperson for IT consulting to Fortune 500 companies, and an award-winning realtor. Over the past year, Greg has also contributed to the Wakanda Learning Center and has been an active member of the Wakanda forum while in the midst of launching a start-up based on Wakanda.

Melinda Gallo – Wakanda Project Manager
@melindawakanda
Two months after earning her B.A. in French Literature, while searching for a way to live in France, Melinda was hired by 4D in Paris (previously known as ACI) to provide technical support to the company’s international subsidiaries and distributors. There, she discovered her joy for writing when she became responsible for producing 4D’s monthly technical notes. Besides learning how to program on the job, she also studied technical writing at the American University in Paris. Six years later, Melinda left Paris to become an independent 4D developer in England. In 2002, she decided to focus on the Internet and began developing websites with two different backends: 4D and PHP/MySQL. Thanks to her mobile job, she was able to move to Florence, Italy, where she currently lives. At the beginning of 2011, she returned to 4D in Paris to write several Wakanda manuals. Recently, she has become the Wakanda Project Manager and is looking forward to contributing to the product’s success and to writing technical notes once again, only this time for Wakanda.

Christophe Keromen – Agile Coach
@ckeromen
Christophe have more than 25 years of experience in business applications. He has experimented being a developer, project manager, outside consultant, technical evangelist, trainer, coach and very limited tennis player.
After working as the initial Senior Product Manager of what became Wakanda, he left 4D Company in 2010 to explore Mobile Application Development. He is now devoted to on old passion: accompanying teams to improve their process with Agility.
During the past twelve years, he have published three books, dozens of technical notes and articles. He has also elaborated several trainings and delivered them to different international audiences.
Christophe is an enthusiast member of Agile Community and regular speaker at Agile conferences like Agile Tour, Agile France…

Alexandre Morgaut – Community Manager
@amorgaut

Alexandre Morgaut started out doing Web development in 1995 on Mosaic and Netscape. In 1999, he converted a Java chat room applet into pure “Ajax” before XHR was available, and started to create Flash-like Web interfaces in JavaScript. After a number of years designing and developing Web sites and Web applications at French TV channel TF1 using JavaScript, PHP, Flash, and SQL, Alexandre was hired at Wakanda to enhance Web technologies in application servers and IDEs (i.e., 4D and Wakanda).

Participating in Web standards working groups, Alexandre is working hard at making Wakanda a wide-open platform and creating a large, enthusiastic community around it.

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David Robbins – Web Application Developer

David Robbins develops and provides support for Web applications, notably in Wakanda. You can see him promoting server-side Javascript, NoSQL, and Wakanda at meet-ups and trade shows around the Bay Area. He created DataWave, the first Web application framework for 4D, and is now helping customers build the next generation of Web applications with Wakanda.

Gilles Danjou – Wakanda Project Manager
@Gilles_Danjou
Gilles Danjou started out in development at the age of 11. After many years developing for key accounts, he decided to create his own startup. There he provided Web development and photography services for the tourism and real estate markets. Four years ago, Gilles joined 4D as Product Manager. He defined the first specifications for Wakanda Studio and now participates in the perpetual enhancement of Wakanda. In 2009, he became the Wakanda Project Manager and leads the Web development team with one main goal: pushing the technical limits of Web development.

Many years ago, Milan discovered database theory while trying to build an application that could track the statistics of the Yugoslavian football team with GFA Basic on the Atari ST. Years later, he discovered 4D and has been trying to rewrite that same application ever since. He hopes to be able to build the next version of it in Wakanda, while in the meantime, he has developed many other database and Web solutions that he plans on sharing.