Michael Lively

Michael Lively has worked in a variety of roles in the software development industry for 12 years, from developer to architect, and he is now a software development director. He has worked on a variety of different projects, using many different technologies over that time, from small home-grown sites serving a handful of regular users, to large enterprise platforms serving millions of consumers. In addition to his professional work, Michael Lively has been an active part of the PHP open source community. Some of his contributions include the database extension for PHPUnit and, more recently, an alternative mocking framework for PHP called Phake.