Andi Gutmans
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Israel
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i programmer
Programmer
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with Swiss roots, PHP
PHP
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developer and co-founder of Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies Ltd. is an Israeli world wide web infrastructure software company with headquarters in Cupertino, California, U.S., technology center in Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel and offices in France, Italy and Germany...
. A graduate of the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa
Haifa
Haifa is the largest city in northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country, with a population of over 268,000. Another 300,000 people live in towns directly adjacent to the city including the cities of the Krayot, as well as, Tirat Carmel, Daliyat al-Karmel and Nesher...
, Gutmans and fellow student Zeev Suraski
Zeev Suraski
Zeev Suraski is an Israeli programmer, PHP developer and co-founder of Zend Technologies. A graduate of the Technion in Haifa, Israel, Suraski and fellow student Andi Gutmans created PHP 3 in 1997. In 1999 they wrote the Zend Engine, the core of PHP 4, and founded Zend Technologies, which has...
created PHP 3 in 1997. In 1999 they wrote the Zend Engine
Zend engine
The Zend Engine is an open source scripting engine , commonly known for the important role it plays in the web automation language PHP. It was originally developed by Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski while they were students at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. They later founded a...
, the core of PHP 4, and founded Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies Ltd. is an Israeli world wide web infrastructure software company with headquarters in Cupertino, California, U.S., technology center in Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel and offices in France, Italy and Germany...
, which has since overseen PHP advances, including the current PHP 5 release. The name Zend is a portmanteau of their forenames, Zeev and Andi.
Gutmans currently serves as CEO of Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies
Zend Technologies Ltd. is an Israeli world wide web infrastructure software company with headquarters in Cupertino, California, U.S., technology center in Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel and offices in France, Italy and Germany...
. Before being appointed CEO in February 2009 he led Zend's R&D including development of all Zend products and Zend's contributions to the open-source Zend Framework
Zend Framework
Zend Framework is an open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5 and licensed under the New BSD License.-Licensing:...
and PHP Development Tools
PHP Development Tools
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projects. He has participated at Zend in its corporate financing and has also led alliances with vendors like Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle.
Gutmans is also a board member of the Eclipse Foundation
Eclipse Foundation
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(which he joined in October 2005), an emeritus member of the Apache Software Foundation
Apache Software Foundation
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, and was nominated for the FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software
FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software
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in 1999.
In 2004 he wrote a book called "PHP 5 Power Programming" together with Stig Bakken and Derick Rethans.
Gutmans was recognized by ComputerWorld magazine in July 2007 in their article “40 Under 40: 40 Innovative IT People to Watch, Under the Age of 40.”