拉斯姆斯·勒多夫1968—

勒多夫1988年毕业于安大略省金城中学，1993年毕业于滑铁卢大学，获得系统设计工程应用科学学士学位。2002年9月至2009年11月6日间，他在Yahoo!公司担任基础设施架构师。2010年，他加入WePay公司帮助开发其API。2011年起，他担任创业顾问。

Rasmus Lerdorf (Danish: [ˈleɐ̯ˌtɒˀf]; born 22 November 1968) is a Danish-Canadian programmer. He is best known as the creator of PHP, a general-purpose scripting language, which he created in 1993 and released in 1995. He continues to contribute to the language's development.

Early life and education

Rasmus Lerdorf was born on 22 November 1968 in Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland, and moved to Denmark in his early years. Lerdorf's family moved to Canada from Denmark in 1980, and later moved to King City, Ontario, in 1983.

He graduated from King City Secondary School in 1988, and in 1993 he graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Systems Design Engineering.

Career

Lerdorf contributed to the Apache HTTP Server and he added the LIMIT clause to the mSQL DBMS. A variant of this LIMIT clause had already been around for a decade in mainframe relational database management systems (like Oracle Rdb running on VMS, formerly from Digital Equipment Corporation), but apparently it had not yet been picked up by the emerging PC-based databases. It was later adapted by several other SQL-compatible DBMS. He released the first version of PHP in 1995.

From September 2002 to November 2009 Lerdorf was employed by Yahoo! Inc. as an Infrastructure Architecture Engineer. In 2010, he joined WePay in order to develop their application programming interface. Throughout 2011 he was a roving consultant for startups. On 22 February 2012 he announced on Twitter that he had joined Etsy. In July 2013 Lerdorf joined Jelastic as a senior advisor to help them with the creation of new technology.

Lerdorf is a frequent speaker at Open Source conferences around the world. During his keynote presentation at OSCMS 2007, he presented a security vulnerability in each of the projects represented at the conference that year.

Lerdorf also appeared at the WeAreDevelopers Conferences 2017 and 2019, making a speech on the history of PHP, the new PHP 7 release in 2017, and the 25 years of PHP.

Award

In 2003, Lerdorf was named in the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.