Zeev Suraski ( he, זאב סורסקי ) is an Israeli
programmer
A computer programmer, sometimes referred to as a software developer, a software engineer, a programmer or a coder, is a person who creates computer programs — often for larger computer software.
A programmer is someone who writes/creates ...
,
PHP developer and co-founder of
Zend Technologies. A graduate of the
Technion in
Haifa
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,
Israel
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, Suraski and
Andi Gutmans
Andi (Andrei) Gutmans is an Israeli programmer and entrepreneur.
Biography
Andi Gutmans holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Technion in Haifa. Gutmans holds four citizenships: Swiss, British, Israeli and American.
Business ...
created PHP 3 in 1997. In 1999 they wrote the
Zend Engine, the core of PHP 4, and founded
Zend Technologies, which has since overseen PHP advances.
The name Zend is a
portmanteau
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, and was nominated for the
FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software in 1999. Zeev Suraski was the
Chief technology officer for
Zend Technologies until he left the company in August 2019.
On October 17, 2018, he announced his intention of leaving
Zend Technologies as
Rogue Wave Software
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, which acquired
Zend Technologies in 2015,
decided to change the strategic focus of the company.
Since August 2019 he's the
Chief technology officer of
Strattic.
He was the lead contributor to PHP from 1997 onwards.
References
Living people
Businesspeople in software
Israeli computer programmers
Israeli chief executives
Israeli Jews
PHP writers
Web developers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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