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 and writing, and Xander attends Kindergarten and loves numbers.

Professional Biography

Wez Furlong is Chief Software Architect at Message Systems (part of the OmniTI family), where he designs new features and refinements for the fastest MTA on Earth. Prior to his time at Message Systems/OmniTI, Wez was the Principal of his own small software consultancy based in England, developing internet and desktop applications for clients as far away as Japan and Australia.

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 extensions. Wez helps to maintain the php.net server infrastructure and takes an active role in fostering the PHP extension developer community.

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.

Would you like to work with me?
I have positions open for server/infrastructure software development (C) and QA.