Oleg Krivtsov has been professionally developing C/C++ and PHP software since 2005. He received a PhD degree in Computer Science from Tomsk Polytechnic University in 2010.  Oleg also taught Digital Signal Processing in the university. He likes contributing to open-source and writing programming articles for popular web resources, like CodeProject. This writing passion has also inspired him to create this book about Zend Framework 2. Besides writing books, Oleg loves skiing and watching Formula-1.