Career
A graduate of the Technion in Haifa, Israel, Suraski and Andi Gutmans created Hypertext Preprocessor 3 in 1997. In 1999 they wrote the Zend Engine, the core of Hypertext Preprocessor 4, and founded Zend Technologies, which has since overseen Hypertext Preprocessor advances. The name Zend is a portmanteau of their forenames, Zeev and Andi.
Zeev Suraski is the Chief Technology Officer for Zend Technologies.