Derick Rethans is a PHP internals expert and author of Xdebug. He works as an independent contractor and consultant on PHP extensions, the PHP language, and related projects.
He works for the PHP Foundation to improve PHP, and continues to contribute to the PHP project in numerous forms Date/Time Extension, Xdebug, PHP 4.4/7.4 Release Manager, etc. He is a frequent lecturer at Conferences, the author of PHP architect’s Guide to Date and Time Programming, and the co-author of PHP 5 Power Programming. Derick also hosted the weekly-ish PHP Internals News podcast.
