After the release of PHP 7, the PHP community is growing at a rapid pace. There are a lot of influencers that you need to follow in 2017.
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These are some of the top PHP influencers you should follow.
These are some of the most influential PHP personalities whom you must follow in 2017 so that you can keep yourself up to date about the latest updates in the PHP community. Following them will help you to polish your skills in PHP.
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The web developer and the creator of Laravel, Forge, Envoyer, and more. The first personality in the list to follow in 2017.
A PHP developer for 15 years and loves to do Career Management and Career Planning. He lives in Washington, DC. He loves to work both in-house and in agencies. He has worked with hundreds of organizations.
The third in the list is Kevin Bruce, the sole Designer/Front End Developer working in the band of developers called Musketeers.me. He has experience of over 20 years as a Web Designer and a Web Developer.
Fabien Potencier, the founder of Symfony Framework, completed his studies at HEC School of Management in 1997. He started his own company in France in June 1998 and named it Sensio, but later shifted the company to Canada in 2008 and then to the US. In 2005, he got the license for his framework, Symfony.
A software Developer with more than ten years of experience. He worked on a project named Socorro, which is Firefox’s crash collection and analysis system.
Adam Culp, a PHP Certified Engineer, is the Senior Professional Services Consultant at Zend Technologies from Apr 2013 – Present. He is a public speaker and a trainer and is the organizer of SoFloPHP and SunshinePHP Developer Conference.
He is a mapping enthusiast, a PHP internals expert, and author of Xdebug, php|architect’s Guide to Date and Time Programming, and an OpenStreetMap co-author of PHP 5 Power Programming.
He is the co-founder of PHP.cc Information Technology and Services. His test framework PHPUnit is a de facto standard. He is Co-Founder and Managing Director at BBP Consulting & Publishing GmbH from Jul 2015 – Present in Hamburg, Germany. He shares his experience and knowledge through his widely-read books and articles. Sebastian loves to hack on Open Source Software and loves to take photographs when he is free.
Eli White loves to write code in PHP and is also an author at eliw.com and a speaker. He does conferences for a living. He is a vivid gamer and loves to play Xbox. And in his free time, he loves to do Medieval Reenactment in the SCA. He loves to do archery, armored combat, brewing, and woodworking.
She loves to work in tech. She writes sci-fi novels, loves to take photos, and runs an Etsy shop. She was a PHP Community Manager at Engine Yard from Oct 2011 – Nov 2012. And now works as a Patchwork Community Manager at GitHub from Dec 2012 – Present.
A professional PHP consultant and Zend Framework expert who also works for the government and larger expertises. He is the president of PHPBenelux, which is a PHP group running in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. He is a speaker and speaks at several PHP conferences all around the world. He is the CEO of In2IT from Jan 2011 – Present, Co-Founder of PHP Europe, Member of the board at PHPBenelux, Coach at CoderDojo Belgium, and Secretary at Dutch Web Alliance.
Rafael Dohms is a Web developer and experienced in PHP development. He is a PHP Evangelist and an author at doh.ms, a public speaker, and a contributor. He founded 3 active User Groups during his experience and is an active member of the community.
Matthew is the Project Lead of Zend Framework at Zend Technologies from Apr 2009 – Present. He is a Zend Certified Engineer and is an active member of the Zend Education Advisory Board. The activities of this group are to authorize the Zend Certification Exam. He loves to write blogs on PHP-related topics and presents tutorials on PHP development.
She is an open source advocate and loves to work as a volunteer in many open source projects. She is a public speaker and has spoken at many conferences. The mother of four is a mentor for new programmers. She has worked as a Contributor for PHP from Oct 2006 to present.
Cal has worked with PHP and MySQL on Linux OS and Windows for the past 10 years. Cal is married to Kathy and is the father of two. He enjoys and loves to build and manage development teams, using a highly imitated management style which he calls “Management by Wandering Around”.
Chris Cornutt is an active member of the PHP community who loves to speak and attend conferences all around the US. He is the author of two sites, PHP Developer.org and Joind.in. He organized the Dallas-based Lone Star PHP Conference.
He is currently working on the platform team at Okta. He loves to play with APIs, their identities, and authentications. His first goal is to give good technology in the hands of good people so that they can do good things.
Davey has 12 years of experience in Web Development. He is the Author of php[architect]’s Zend PHP 5 Certification Guide and Sitepoint’s PHP Anthology: 101 Tips, Tricks, and Hacks. Also, he wrote Cutting Edge Code, as well as numerous magazine articles.
