Enrico Zimuel has been a Software Engineer since 1996 and works as the Senior PHP Engineer at Zend Technologies in the Zend Framework Core Team. He has been a Research Programmer at the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam and has been a speaker at many conferences regarding PHP and IT security since 2000. He is the author of many articles and books about applied cryptography and web programming. Enrico holds a B.Sc. Honours degree in Computer Science and Economics from the University “G.D’Annunzio” of Pescara, Italy.

He has a blog about web programming and PHP at http://www.zimuel.it/blog