Rasmus Lerdorf was born on 22 November 1968 and is a Danish-

Canadian programmer. He created the PHP scripting language, is author of

the first two versions of the language and participated in the development of
later versions led by a group of developers. In 1988, he completed his
graduation from King City Secondary School, and in 1993 he once again
graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Systems Design Engineering
from the University of Waterloo. From September 2002 to November 2009
Lerdorf was employed by Yahoo! Inc. as an Infrastructure Architecture
Engineer. In 2003, Lerdorf was named in the MIT Technology
Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of
35. In 2010, he joined WePay in order to develop their application
programming interface. Throughout 2011 he was a consultant for startups.
He joined Etsy in 2012.