Florian Engelhardt

🐘 PHP Enthusiast && proud Geek

Hello there 👋

My name is Florian. I am married with five kids and I like to play table tennis 🏓, table football ⚽, chess ♟️ and MTG.

I started writing small software on an IBM PS/2 30 286 in GW-BASIC back in 1993, throughout the 90s I learned HTML, JavaScript, Perl, C and a bit of Assembler. It was September 2000 when I was introduced to PHP and I thought nobody would ever need it, but boy I was wrong.

I build my career on PHP, worked as a PHP Developer, Software Architect, Technical Consultant and I even co-founded a software agency helping customers to build their E-Commerce systems based on PHP.

In my spare time (and with five kids you do not have that much of it), I work on various open-source PHP projects and every now and then I write blog posts and give talks about anything PHP.

Blog Posts

I am hosting my blog posts over at dev.to

• To double quote or not, that's the question!
• Processing One Billion Rows in PHP!
• Revisiting GitLab as a PHP Developer
• Growing the PHP Core — One Test at a Time
• Learn how YOU can build a Serverless GraphQL API on top of a Microservice architecture with PHP
• Why using REPLACE INTO might be a bad idea
• Delayed requeuing with RabbitMQ
• Block SSH brute-force attacks

Talks

You can also find me at PHP user groups and conferences giving talks

• Processing One Billion Rows in PHP
• Growing the PHP core - one test at a time
  • Nomad PHP recording
  • code.talks 2019 recording
• Asynchronous PHP
  • code.talks commerce 2019 recording
• Logging with Monolog
• GraphQL within OXID eShop