Biography

Kevin Whinnery is a code plumber and developer evangelist for Twilio, an API company that makes it easy for developers to build apps that make and receive phone calls, send and receive text or picture messages, and connect web or mobile app users via VoIP calls.

Kevin can usually be found hacking JavaScript or mobile apps. At Twilio, Kevin is the author and maintainer of the company’s official node.js client library in addition to other developer-facing software projects. Prior to joining Twilio, Kevin spent four years with the team at Appcelerator, as they created the popular Titanium Mobile framework for cross-platform native apps.

Kevin lives in Saint Paul, MN with his beautiful wife and three devious children.

Twilio hardware hack with Raspberry Pi & Chromecast

Twilio is a cloud solution for working with VOIP, SMS, and telephony. Twilio can be used from virtually anywhere - in this session, we’ll see how easy it is to create a telephony integrated application on the Raspberry Pi and the Chromecast.