Personalia
Name: Stefan Koopmanschap
Date of birth: 16-06-1978
Marital state: Married
More in-depth information can be found in my curriculum vitae.
Who is 'left'?
Stefan Koopmanschap ('left') is a PHP developer, consultant and trainer with an eye for best practices. He is a community person and is active in the european PHP community as secretary of the phpBenelux Usergroup as well as in the symfony community by advocating symfony and as the Community Manager. In his spare time he also works on developing tons of sites and has a big love of Open Source Software as well as music, his wife Marjolein, son Tomas and daughter Yara, and reading fantasy, science fiction and just about anything else.
Stefan has a wide history in Open Source, having been Support Team Leader for phpBB, documentation translator for Zend Framework and community manager, plugin developer and maintainer plus various other things for symfony.
Stefan is also a best practices advocate. He prefers easy and useful explanations of best practices over the academic and theoretical stuff found in most literature.
You can reach me by sending an e-mail here. Click here to load the contact form (to hopefully prevent automated spam)
Upcoming events
08-10-2010: Symfony Day Cologne 2010 09-10-2010: Symfony workshop