About
Profession
- Senior Engineer on the Platform Team at Synacor
- Author of php|architect’s Guide to Web Scraping with PHP
- Past speaker at ZendCon and php|tek
- Past author and technical editor for php|architect Magazine
- Lead developer of the Phergie project
- Contributor to the Zend Framework project
- Organizer for the Acadiana Open Source Group
- Participant in the PHP Community organization
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
- ZCE certifications for PHP 5 and Zend Framework
Personal Life
- Resident of Duson, Louisiana
- Married with three children, two cats, and one dog
- Casual gamer (PC, console, and table-top) and proud geek
- Recreational programmer mainly with PHP, but also occasionally Python and Java
- Patron of the Freenode IRC network and its #phpc channel under the nick Elazar
