Wez Furlong I am Wez Furlong, Chief Software Architect at Message Systems. We're responsible for building an awesome Messaging Platform.

I'm also a PHP Core developer and OpenSource contributor, residing in Maryland, USA with Juliette, Xander and Lily. (read more)

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Projects and Plans

I've made the observation that most software is pretty crappy and often thought that I could do better. Well, I know that I can, so one of my long term goals is:

  1. Identify crappy software areas
  2. Think up how to do things better
  3. Implement it
  4. Since my software is so superior, everyone will end up using it
  5. Over time, I will control the world

So far, I've consistenty managed to get to around 2.5, which puts me at roughly the same threat category as Dr. Evil—he never quite seems to take over the world.

I am, or have been, involved in the following projects:

Would you like to work with me?
I have positions open for server/infrastructure software development (C) and QA.

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