Andi Gutmans

Andi Gutmans is an Israeli programmer and entrepreneur who co-created PHP and co-founded Zend Technologies.

born 1972Co-creating PHPCo-founding Zend TechnologiesThe Zend EngineData Cloud at Google

Occupation: entrepreneur, programmer, businessperson, computer scientist
Education: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Founded: Perforce Zend (1999)

Andi Gutmans was born in 1972 in Israel

Andi Gutmans was born in Israel in 1972. He holds Swiss, British, Israeli and American citizenship.

He earned a bachelor's degree in computer science at the Technion in Haifa. There, with fellow student Zeev Suraski, he created PHP 3 in 1997.

In 1999 the two wrote the Zend Engine, the core of PHP 4, and founded Zend Technologies. The name Zend joins their first names. Gutmans led the company's research and development and became CEO in February 2009, serving until Rogue Wave Software bought Zend in October 2015.

He sat on the board of the Eclipse Foundation from 2005 to 2008 and co-wrote the book PHP 5 Power Programming in 2004. In March 2016 he joined Amazon Web Services, where he managed several data services, including Amazon Redshift.

In May 2020 he joined Google as vice president and general manager of databases. He later became vice president and general manager of Data Cloud.