About the Author

Bruno Pedro is a systems engineer with over ten years’ experience in database related applications who’s been developing PHP Web Applications since 1995. He’s the author of Auth_Container_SOAP, PEAR‘s SOAP based plug-and-play authentication package. Currently he’s interested in studying the usage of the Web as a data storage container and in the management of Large Scale Web Development projects.

Here’s a list of publications.

Startup projects

• startu (initiator & evangelist) – a loose association promoting startup creation in Portugal, 2009 – now
• tarpipe (co-founder) – a publishing mediation and distribution platform, 2008 – now
• Adegga (technical advisor) – a social wine discovery application, 2008 – now
• JobTide (founder) – a job aggregator and search engine, 2006 – 2011
• eth – a consulting and Web development company in south Portugal, 1999 – 2002

Open Source projects

• Horde Template compilation code (used by the IMP Webmail Client), November 2006
• PEAR Auth_Container_SOAP, 2003 — now
• ProFTPD Quota LDAP Module, May 2003
• phdwait (PHP Database Web Application Toolkit), September 2002

Contacts

Bruno is currently living in Lisbon, Portugal, but is available to work remotely in projects anywhere in the world. If you’re interested, check out his full profile at Linkedin, write him a note to bpedro@computer.org or follow him on twitter.