About Wez
I'm a systems architect from England living in in Maryland, USA. I like to unwind from work with an occasional single malt and a good movie. If I can't get my hands on those, I'll substitute bourbon, bad sci-fi or xbox 360.
I'm married to Juliette and we have a son called Xander. Juliette studies Tae Kwon Do, Haidong Gumdo and writing; Xander attends school and loves math and space.
At work, I'm responsible for ensuring that the
architecture of Message Systems' software continues to meet the
performance, scalability and flexibility demands placed upon it by clientele
such as
Facebook,
Salesforce,
Match.com
and MessageLabs.
Professional Biography
Wez Furlong is Chief Software Architect at Message Systems where he designs new features and refinements for the messaging platform that helps clientele such as Facebook, Salesforce, Match.com and MessageLabs (Symantec.cloud) meet their high demands.
A strong proponent of OpenSource, Wez has made major contributions to the PHP programming language core in the form of the streams and database abstraction layers, and is author of a number of other extensions. Other projects include a software development tracker application (mtrack) and a programmable watchdog and crash trace analysis facility for use on production systems (Gimli).
Wez enjoys sharing knowledge, and this has manifested in the form of a number of articles for php|architect and PHP Magazine, Oracle Technology Network and IBM developerWorks. He can often be found speaking at PHP and OpenSource conferences worldwide.
