Andi Gutmans

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Andi (Andrei [1] ) Gutmans is an Israeli programmer and entrepreneur.

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Biography

Andi Gutmans holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Technion in Haifa. [2] Gutmans holds four citizenships: Swiss, British, Israeli and American. [1]

Business career

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. In 1999 they wrote the Zend Engine, the core of PHP 4, and founded Zend Technologies, which has since overseen PHP advances, including the PHP 5 [4] and most recent PHP 7 releases. The name Zend is a portmanteau of their forenames, Zeev and Andi. [5]

Gutmans served as CEO of Zend Technologies until October 2015 when Zend was acquired by Rogue Wave Software. Before being appointed CEO in February 2009, [6] he led Zend's R&D including development of all Zend products and Zend's contributions to the open-source Zend Framework and PHP Development Tools projects. He has participated at Zend in its corporate financing and has also led alliances with vendors like Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle. [3]

Gutmans served on the board of the Eclipse Foundation [7] (October 2005 - October 2008), [8] [9] is an emeritus member of the Apache Software Foundation, [10] and was nominated for the FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software [11] in 1999.

In 2004 he wrote a book called "PHP 5 Power Programming" [12] together with Stig Bakken and Derick Rethans.

Gutmans was recognized by ComputerWorld magazine in July 2007 [13] [14] in their article “40 Under 40: 40 Innovative IT People to Watch, Under the Age of 40.” [15]

In March 2016, Gutmans left Rogue Wave [16] to join Amazon Web Services. [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". [18] In his role at Amazon Web Services, Gutmans managed Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Amazon Redshift, Amazon CloudSearch, Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon Neptune.

In May 2020, Gutmans joined Google as VP Engineering, Databases. [19]

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