Michael Cullum is a backend PHP developer, working particularly with Symfony, and has been for about nine years. He is an official team member and member of the management team at phpBB where he has been a contributor for over half a decade and more recently he founded the new PHP Surrey User Group. Michael is passionate about open source software and is an advocate of modern development principles & methods, open source project co-operation, and the active development of standards through the PHP FIG.