Wez Furlong, Chief Software Architect

Wez Furlong leads our team of exceptional engineers who design new features and refinements for all Message Systems products - from the core platform to need-specific technology solutions to enhance and improve the performance of our client’s digital messaging programs. Prior to joining Message Systems, Wez supported the engineering efforts for our affiliate company OmniTI. Wez was 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.