Sebastian Bergmann

Current

Co-Founder, Principal Consultant at thePHP.cc
System Developer at eZ Systems AS
Creator and Main Developer at PHPUnit

Developer at PHP Developers Group
Developer at PEAR
Consultant, Coach, Trainer at sebastian-bergmann.de (Self-employed)

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Past

Package Maintainer at Gentoo Linux

Education

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Recommended

9 people have recommended Sebastian

Connections

303 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

My Website

Sebastian Bergmann’s Summary

Sebastian Bergmann holds a degree in Computer Science and is a pioneer in the field of quality assurance in PHP projects. His test framework PHPUnit is a de-facto standard. He is actively involved in the development of PHP and creator of various development tools. Sebastian Bergmann is an internationally sought-after expert. As an author he shares his long-standing experience in books and articles. He is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world.

Sebastian Bergmann’s Specialties:

PHP,Quality Assurance,Software Engineering

Sebastian Bergmann’s Experience

Co-Founder, Principal Consultant

thePHP.cc

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2009 — Present (10 months)

thePHP.cc helps businesses and enterprises to reduce IT costs in the
long term with Open Source technologies and PHP in particular.

thePHP.cc supports their clients in improving their employee's
qualification to overcome skills shortages.
System Developer

eZ Systems AS

(Computer Software industry)

May 2006 — Present (3 years 8 months)

Sebastian Bergmann is a software engineer on the team that develops the eZ Components, an enterprise ready general purpose PHP components library used independently or together for PHP application development. With eZ Components, developers do not have to reinvent the wheel, instead they can concentrate on solving customer-specific needs.
Creator and Main Developer

PHPUnit

(Computer Software industry)

November 2001 — Present (8 years 2 months)

In the last decade, PHP has developed from a niche language for adding dynamic functionality to small websites to a powerful tool making strong inroads into large-scale Web systems. Critical business logic like this needs to work correctly. But how do you ensure that it does? You test it, of course.

To make code testing viable, good tool support is needed. This is where PHPUnit comes into play. It is a member of the xUnit family of testing frameworks and provides both a framework that makes the writing of tests easy as well as the functionality to easily run the tests and analyse their results.
Developer

PHP Developers Group

(Computer Software industry)

November 2000 — Present (9 years 2 months)

Sebastian Bergmann contributes to the Open Source project that develops PHP, a widely-used programming language. Initially designed for Web programming, it has developed to a general-purpose object-oriented language making strong inroads into large-scale, business-critical Web systems.
Developer

PEAR

(Computer Software industry)

September 2000 — Present (9 years 4 months)

Sebastian Bergmann contributes to PEAR, a framework and distribution system for reusable PHP components.
Consultant, Coach, Trainer
sebastian-bergmann.de (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

January 2000 — Present (10 years )

Sebastian Bergmann is a long-time contributor to various PHP projects, including PHP itself. He is the developer of PHPUnit and offers consulting, training, and coaching services to help enterprises improve the quality assurance process for their PHP-based software projects.
Package Maintainer

Gentoo Linux

(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

February 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 11 months)

Sebastian Bergmann maintains the PHP packages in the Gentoo Linux distribution of the Linux operating system.