Zeev Suraski

Zeev Suraski (Hebrew זאב סורסקי ) is an Israeli software developer and has been working since 1997 on the PHP project. During his tenure in the Web Development Department of Netvision, Israel's largest ISP, is Suraski made ​​familiar with PHP / FI, and decided to use it, on which he worked with Andi Gutmans Technion University in a Web Project.

During their work on the project they kept coming across bugs and the limits of PHP / FI 2.0. They decided to suspend the project and PHP together with some of the common modules to reprogram. This was the foundation for PHP 3

Suraski and Gutmans then developed the Zend Engine - the scripting language behind PHP 4 also designed other important PHP 4 components, such as the server abstraction layer and support multithreading. Zeev Suraski is the co-founder and CTO of Zend Technologies.

Gutmans and Suraskis work on PHP core was repeatedly honored:

  • Members of the Apache Software Foundation
  • Nominated for the 1999 GNU Free Software Award
  • Candidates for the 1998 CNET Web Innovators Award
  • 1999 LinuxWorld Editor's Choice Awards
  • Technion award for University 's most creative project in 1997
  • Co-winner ( with ASP developers ) of the Web Tools Award of Web Techniques Magazine

Post to PHP:

  • Co-developer of the Zend Engine
  • Co-developer of PHP / Zend Extension API
  • Ported PHP 4 after Win32
  • Co-developer of the SAPI web server abstraction layer for PHP 4
  • Developed the ISAPI / IIS SAPI module, the Apache SAPI module developed with
  • Developed the MySQL, mSQL, Sybase and PostgreSQL modules
  • Developed on output buffering of PHP 4.0.
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Modular programming Chief technology officer GNU Project FSF Free Software Awards
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