I've been coding in PHP since 2002. I'm the maintainer of PHPMailer, a top-10 PHP project on GitHub, and probably the most popular email code in the world. If you need help sending email from PHP, I'm your guy. I also wrote the definition of an email address for the WHATWG HTML 5 specification. Of course I have plenty of experience of fixing many other problems in PHP too!

I've been using and administering MySQL for many years, dealing with optimisation, scaling and redundancy for many customers.

I've been aware of security issues for many years, but more recently I've been working for a penetration testing company, performing pentests, code audits (mainly in PHP), writing & editing test reports.

Unlike many developers, I *love* writing documentation. I have excellent spelling and grammar, and an eye for detail. I have written many articles for wikis, support documents, books, web sites, generated documentation (e.g. PHPDoc) and more. I've also worked as a technical reviewer & editor. As part of my penetration testing work, I've written detailed technical reports on complex penetration tests, and I'm a contributing author to the PenText reporting standard recently adopted by OWASP. I'm also available for sub-editing, proofing and correction of translations, which often need a lot of work! I'm comfortable in code-oriented version-controlled environments with markdown, XML-based formats etc, but I can also handle Word, OpenOffice, Pages and other desktop apps.

Personal details

Marcus B.

Summary

Technical skills