The CloudWays blog has posted their latest interview with a member of the PHP community. In this latest post they talk with Rafael Dohms, originally from Brazil but now in the Netherlands and founder of several PHP User Groups.

Rafael Dohms is a very active person in PHP Community. He has more than 15 years of experience in PHP web development. This Brazilian guy moved to Netherlands to explore new horizons in development and user groups, as he believes in power of user groups. He has created 3 PHP user groups including AmsterdamPHP, PHPDF and PHPSP.

Rafael has contributed in various projects including Symfony, Doctrine, and has helped in both support and documentation. He also believes in sharing of knowledge and for that reason, he is a passionate teacher who believes in empowering new developers. He has been a speaker at different conferences of PHP in all over the world.

In the interview Rafael answers questions about:

• how he got started with PHP
• what role he plays at his job with Symbid
• some about the user groups he helped to start
• his Composer book

...and more. They also talk about Rafael's views on the future of PHP, frameworks, other members of the PHP open source community and PHP 7. Check out the full interview for his answers to these and more interesting questions.