professional Biography

Andi Gutmans co-founded Zend Technologies and has been instrumental in making Zend into the company it is today. In addition to building key partnerships with IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and others, and contributing to major customer & sales engagements, in 2006 he led the company's largest round of funding to date. Gutmans' leadership of the company's open source project Zend Framework has included galvanizing the PHP and enterprise communities around the benefits of standardization and has broadened the professionalism and market reach of PHP and of Zend solutions worldwide.

Gutmans has also been a lead contributor to PHP since 1997, when he and Zeev Suraski developed the foundation for PHP 3 and later co-founded Zend Technologies together. PHP 3 was a turning point for the language, which today powers over 20 million websites including Facebook and Yahoo! and enjoys a following of over 5 million developers.

Gutmans was named one of Computerworld's 40 innovative IT people to watch, under the age of 40. He is also recognized from the widely circulated technical publications he has authored and is a frequent speaker on business and technology issues at global conferences. Gutmans is a member of the PHP Group, the Apache Software Foundation, and the Eclipse Foundation, as well as serving on the board of Zend Technologies. Gutmans holds a bachelor's 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 having represented 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 and the Apache Software Foundation.