Education Advisory Board
The Zend PHP Education Advisory Board has established the curriculum criteria necessary to demonstrate expertise in PHP. Its members have been selected from among the leaders of the PHP community.
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Ilia Alshanetsky is a core PHP developer, responsible for a large number of commonly used extensions and language components. Ilia can be frequently found speaking at conferences on a variety of PHP related topics and his articles regularly appear in various publications. He is the author of the Guide to PHP Security, as well as the author of the Zend Certification Training and Professional PHP courses. IIia is also the primary developer of the FUDforum bulletin board. |
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Marcus Boerger is a freelancer located in Germany and specializes on C/C++, databases, UML, XML and of course PHP. To the PHP community he is also known as 'helly'. As one of the core developers, he focused on the OO features of PHP 5 and the Zend Engine II. Marcus has been 'hacking' around on all kinds of stuff for over 15 years now and is currently working for Ford Motor Company where he develops next generation navigation technologies. |
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Andi Gutmans leads the PHP Collaboration Project and Zend product strategy, working together with both partners and the community, to build the market’s leading Web development platform. Andi has been a leading contributor to PHP since 1997. Recently, Andi spearheaded the object-oriented improvements for PHP 5. He is a member of the PHP Group, the Apache Software Foundation, and on the board of the Eclipse Foundation. Additionally, he brings a rich background in enterprise software development including real-time avionics simulation software and n-tier J2EE applications. Andi holds a B.A. in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.
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Martin Jansen is currently studying computer science at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and works as a software engineer for Bauer + Kirch GmbH. Martin has been using PHP since the first beta version of PHP 3, and has worked as a technical reviewer with publishers of PHP-related books such as O'Reilly and Pearson. He is a member of the PEAR Group, which oversees the well-being of the project, and takes care of PEAR's technical infrastructure. Also he maintains a few PEAR packages. In the past Martin helped to establish the successful German-speaking PHP-FAQ and wrote a few paragraphs for the official PHP manual.
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Ivo Jansch is one of the founders of Egeniq.com, a mobile products and services company in The Netherlands. In the past he's been the CTO of Ibuildings and a software architect, developer and consultant in a variety of small to large projects. Ivo has an interest in generalization and architectural concepts. He's always on the lookout for new technologies or new ways to use existing technologies. Last but not least, Ivo is a PHP evangelist. He's authored a book called 'php|architect's Guide to Enterprise PHP Development' and regularly speaks at PHP conferences. |
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Paul M. Jones is an internationally-recognized expert on PHP, performance benchmarking, software project management, and other technologies and disciplines. He is the architect of the Solar Framework, author of the Savant template system, and a founding contributor to the Zend Framework.
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| Stanislav Malyshev is a programmer and software architect. He participated in development of many Zend products and currently works as software architect at SugarCRM. He is also a contributor to the PHP project since 2000, and actively participated in development of the PHP 5. Stanislav also participated in development of Zend Framework components. Stanislav has wide expertise in developing web applications and network programming in a variety of environments and operation systems. Stanislav holds a B.Sc. in computer science from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and M.Sc. in management from Polytechnic University, NY (Israel branch). Currently lives in San Jose, California. |
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Jeff Moore has been developing software professionally for almost twenty years and programming in PHP for ten. He has written for php|architect magazine and spoken at PHP conferences. He is currently a senior software engineer for Mashery, inc. |
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Mike Naberezny is a principal of Maintainable Software, LLC, where he specializes in data intensive applications and systems programming. He is known in the PHP community for getting the Zend Framework project off the ground while working for Zend Technologies. Mike previously worked in various senior engineering roles, most recently as a software architect for Flextronics, leading software teams to build infrastructure solutions for the world's largest contract manufacturer. Mike regularly speaks at conferences on software development and is a committer on several open source projects.
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Tobias Schlitt has been working with PHP for more than 5 years a community-known PHP expert. After having finished his apprenticeship as an IT Specialist and being employed as a Software Architect at Deutsche Bank AG, he is now studying Computer Science and working for eZ systems on the eZ components project. He has experiences in the areas of software-design, architecture and development, as well as in the training and authoring environment. |
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Kevin Schroeder, Technology Evangelist for Zend Technologies, is well versed in a wide variety of technologies pertinent to both small and large scale application deployments. He has developed production software using a wide variety of languages including PHP, Java (standalone and web-based applications), Javascript, HTML, SQL, Perl, Visual Basic, ASP and occasionally C. His software development experience is accompanied with extensive experience as system administrator on platforms including Linux, Solaris and Windows on scales of a single server up to several hundred servers on installations that range from a few to millions of users. He has spoken at several conferences and is also the co-author of "The IBM i Programmer's Guide to PHP" and author of the upcoming "You want to do WHAT with PHP?". In his spare time he races Ferraris, with a dismal win record in his Honda. He can be found online at http://www.eschrade.com/ speaking in the first person. |
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Damien Seguy has been a contributor to the PHP and MySQL community since 1999. He is redacteur-en-chef of the Direction | PHP magazine, and the leading French portal www.nexen.net. He is founder of the AFUP and the PHP Québec associations, organising successful conferences in Paris and Montreal. Damien is the author of 3 PHP / MySQL dedicated books, and of the first PHP DVD. He is leading the French translation of PHP and MySQL documentations. He gives talks in international conferences, and help promote PHP for compagnies and government.
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Chris Shiflett is a principal of OmniTI, where he leads the web application security practice. Shiflett is a leader in the PHP community - a popular speaker at industry conferences worldwide, the founder of the PHP Security Consortium, a contributor to the Zend Framework, and an author of the Zend PHP Certification. A prolific writer, Shiflett is the author of the critically-acclaimed Essential PHP Security (O'Reilly) and HTTP Developer's Handbook (Sams). His writing has also appeared in numerous articles for php|architect and PHP Magazine, as well as a number of other popular books including Programming PHP (O'Reilly) and PHP Cookbook (O'Reilly).
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Zeev Suraski is one of the creators of PHP and the Zend Engine on which all PHP sites and applications are run. He is also the author of some of the most popular PHP modules, such as the MySQL and PostgreSQL extensions. Zeev has been working on Zend Engine II - the core of the PHP 5. Zeev is a member of both the PHP Group and the Apache Software Foundation, and has rich experience in UNIX system programming, Web technologies and the Windows architecture. Zeev holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.
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Marco Tabini is the founder and publisher of php|architect, the premier magazine for PHP professionals. Marco has been in the software business for fifteen years, having worked on a variety of projects for large companies and is an accomplished author of books and articles on software development and management.
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Matthew Weier O'Phinney was a Computer Sciences refugee for many years, but returned to programming in 2000, when he was introduced to ASP, Perl and PHP, in that order. After working in a variety of positions as well as freelancing, he joined Zend in 2005 as part of their new "eBiz" team, where he implemented CMS solutions and mid-tier web services for Zend's online presence. He moved full time to the Zend Framework team in late 2007, and took over as project lead in 2009.
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Christian Wenz is an author, trainer and consultant with focus on web technologies. Among his over 50 books he wrote or cowrote are the PHP Phrasebook (where he also co-created the book series) and several other titles on PHP and related technologies. Christian frequently speaks at developer conferences around the globe on his favorite topics: web application security, web services, and AJAX. He maintains a couple of PEAR packages and is Europe´s first Zend Certified Engineer. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich. |
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