professional Biography

In my role as CTO and co-founder of Zend Technologies I enjoy a broad involvement in the ongoing growth of the business. My main focuses include working with strategic partners, leading our work in PHP and Zend Framework, leading innovation as part of our broader technology and product strategy, and fullfilling the role of company spokesperson.

I was named one of Computerworld’s “40 innovative IT people to watch, under the age of 40”. In addition I have authored widely circulated technical publications and am a frequent speaker on business and technology issues at global conferences. Previously I led development teams mainly in the field of real-time simulations and transactional Java EE-based enterprise applications.

I am a member of the PHP Group, the Apache Software Foundation and serve on the board of the Eclipse Foundation. I hold a B.A. in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

open-source Biography

I've been a lead contributor to PHP since 1997, when Zeev Suraski and I developed the foundation for PHP 3. We then went on to build the Zend Engine for PHP 4. Today I lead a team at Zend which continues to contribute to PHP on a daily basis.

In 2005, I built out the vision for the Zend Framework project after which I formed the open-source project and built out an innovative team to deliver the huge success it is today. Not only has Zend Framework attracted hundreds of open-source contributors but also industry giants like IBM, Google and Microsoft. Today many large and small enterprises have standardized their PHP practices on Zend Framework.

In addition I have been involved in a variety of open-source projects both in the past and present. This includes my role of leading Zend's Eclipse strategy and representing the company on the board of the Eclipse Foundation, contributions made to MySQL back in the 90s mainly around tab completion in the command line client, and involvement in the Apache communities and others...

Today I am a member of the PHP Group, PHP Security Response Team, the Apache Software Foundation and serve on the board of the Eclipse Foundation.