Phil Wills, guardian.co.uk

Phil Wills spent his university career studying Physics, but having realised he probably wasn't going to be an astronaut, opted for the next best thing: a career in software development for the web.

Phil has experience with a broad range of languages and technologies, but has spent the past three years focussing on redevloping guardian.co.uk with a focus on building a strong domain model and achieving high performance.