Nashville, Tennessee - United States
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Ben Ramsey is a web craftsman, API enthusiast, and open source software advocate living in Nashville, TN. Passionate about the PHP community, Ben is the founder of the Atlanta PHP user group and co-organizer of the Nashville PHP user group; he also organized the first PHP Appalachia retreat and PHP Community Conference. A core contributor to the PHP programming language, Ben is the co-author of php|architect’s Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide and PHP 5 Unleashed, the author of numerous articles on APIs and web application security, and is a popular speaker at PHP conferences worldwide. When not building the next-generation platform for professional photographers at ShootProof, Ben enjoys good beer and spending time with his family. Ben blogs about web development at benramsey.com. His open-source contributions, including the popular ramsey/uuid library for PHP, may be found at github.com/ramsey.
Skills and Expertise
php open source api software architecture