About

Andrei Zmievski is a highly accomplished software engineer and architect with over 20 years of experience in the internet industry. He is known for his expertise in dynamic languages, open-source leadership, and deep understanding of problems and solutions involved in producing top-notch web software. Andrei is an efficient problem solver who can cut through complexity to achieve results. He has extensive experience in working with domestic and international teams, including UK and Asia, both within companies and in the open-source world. Andrei's principal strengths include building modular, high-performance, scalable web software, expertise in C++, PHP, Apache, their internals, and implementation, extensive experience with HTTP, web security, Unicode, and internationalization (i18n), and a proven ability to analyze complex technical problems and produce solutions, both individually and in teams. Andrei is the principal developer of the PHP scripting language since 1999, the architect and lead developer of PHP 6 native Unicode and i18n support, and the release manager for PHP 4.2. He is also the author of PHP-GTK, the prevalent solution for developing client-side GUI applications with PHP, and co-author of Smarty, the premiere PHP templating engine. Currently, Andrei is working as a Technical Venture Partner at Katalyst, where he provides broad spectrum technology support for Katalyst fund companies, with a focus on due diligence, architecture and scalability review, talent connections, and facilitating technology and best practices discussions with engineering leaders. In the past, Andrei has worked as a Senior Principal Software Engineer at AppDynamics, where he launched the dynamic languages initiative within the Application Performance Monitoring division and architected and developed the PHP language agent. He was also a founding member of Analog. Andrei holds a BS degree in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an MA degree in Linguistics from San Jose State University. His tech stack includes PHP, Python, Javascript, MongoDB, Elastic Search, and infra. Overall, Andrei has relevant experience of 20.95 years in the software engineering and architecture field.