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https://blog.newrelic.com/2014/05/02/25-php-developers-follow-online/

1. Rob Allen. Zend Framework contributor, Zend Framework Education Advisory Board member, and co-author of Zend Framework in Action. Owner of Nineteen Feet.
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2. Sebastian Bergmann. PHP quality assurance pioneer. Creator of the PHPUnit test framework and co-founder of thePHP.cc.
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3. Jordi Boggiano. Lead developer on Composer. Symfony2 developer. Partner at Nelmio.
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4. Dries Buytaert. Original creator and project lead of Drupal. President of the Drupal Association. Co-founder and CTO at Acquia.
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5. Angie Byron. Drupal core co-maintainer and Director of Community Development at Acquia. Recipient of Google-O’Reilly Open 2008 Source Award for Best Contributor and co-author of Using Drupal.
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6. Evan Coury. Zend-certified engineer for PHP 5.3 and Zend Framework, regular speaker at developer conferences. Owner of Roave.
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7. Cal Evans. Developer experience architect. Developer advocate at GetPantheon.
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8. Anthony Ferrara. Developer with expertise in security, performance, and object-oriented programming. Developed the new, more secure password API in PHP 5.5.
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9. Ed Finkler. Member of the Fictive Kin team, working on Gimme Bar and other products. Creator of Open Sourcing Mental Illness, a campaign to raise awareness and understanding of mental illness in the developer community. Co-host of the Development Hell podcast. Created Spaz, the PHPSpecInfo auditing tool, and the Inspekt input filtering library for PHP.
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10. Larry Garfield. Senior architect at Palantir. Principal architect on the Drupal 7 database system and web services lead on Drupal 8. Co-author of Drupal 7 Module Development.
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11. Sara Golemon. Engineer at Facebook working on HHVM. Wrote libssh2, and (per her Twitter page) “a sizable chunk of Yahoo! Search’s front end.” Author of Extending and Embedding PHP.
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12. Andi Gutmans. Co-creator of PHP 3 and the Zend Engine, the core of PHP4. Co-founder and CEO of Zend Technologies. Co-author of PHP 5 Power Programming.
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13. Emma Jane Hogbin. Drupal developer, themer, and open source nerd. Co-author of Front End Drupal and author of Drupal User’s Guide.
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14. Rasmus Lerdorf. Creator of PHP.
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15. Matthew Weier O’Phinney. Open-source software architect. Project lead for Zend Framework. Zend-certified engineer and member of the Zend Education Advisory Board. Speaker and writer.
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16. Taylor Otwell. Created Laravel.
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17. Nikita Popov. Student at the Technical University of Berlin. Maintains a PHP parser written in PHP, and contributes to PHP 5.5 features including generators and coroutines and support for arbitrary expressions in empty().
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18. Fabien Potencier. Co-founder and CEO of SensioLabs. Founder of and project lead for Symfony.
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19. Derick Rethans. PHP engineer and evangelist on MongoDB, Author of Xdebug. Author of php/architect’s Guide to Data and Time Programming. Co-author of PHP 5 Power Programming.
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20. Lukas Smith. Developer for Symfony. Contributor to PHP and PEAR. Developer and part of the management team at Liip.
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21. Marco Tabini. VP at TelemetryApp. “Until December of 2012,” he writes, “I was one of the folks behind php|architect, a great publication for PHP developers. Lately, I can mostly be found writing for Macworld…in the meantime, my interests have somewhat shifted towards Web-base APIs and realtime systems.”
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22. Juan Treminio. Senior PHP/MySQL web developer for Mytrus. We think his work on PuPHPet is going to be hugely important.
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23. Jonathan Wage. Director of technology at OpenSky.com. Contributor to Doctrine and Symfony.
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24. David Walsh. Web developer for Mozilla, core developer for MooTools,
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25. Igor Wiedler. Contributor to Symfony2, Silex, and Composer. Former phpBB MOD team leader.
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Special bonus link: @official_php, the official Twitter account for php.net. Follow it for tips, tricks, new releases, bug fixes, and all the latest information about PHP.