Andi Gutmans
[1] Andi Gutmans helped to co-create PHP, and co-founded Zend Technologies[3] and is a VP Engineering, Databases at Google.A graduate of the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Gutmans and fellow student Zeev Suraski created PHP 3 in 1997.He has participated at Zend in its corporate financing and has also led alliances with vendors like Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle.In 2004 he wrote a book called "PHP 5 Power Programming" [12] together with Stig Bakken and Derick Rethans.[17] Explaining his motivations, Gutmans cited "Cloud infrastructure adoption is at a tipping point" and "the data 'center of gravity' is moving to the cloud", where Amazon "appears to effectively balance innovation and invention: a focus on customer value with a bias to action".