He works as Senior PHP Engineer at Zend Technologies, in the Zend Framework Team. He has been a Researcher Programmer at the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam and he collaborated with the Science Department of the University of Pescara (Italy). He is a frequent speaker at PHP conferences and the author of articles and books about PHP, applied cryptography and computer security. He holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science and Economics from the University of Pescara. He is the co-founder of the PHP User Group of Torino (Italy). Worked on ZF1 & ZF2 Certification.