Tom is Zend Certified PHP and a certified Zend Framework 2 Engineer. He has worked in PHP since 1999 and began programming on the Commodore 128.

Tom is an open source contributor and has contributed to or owns over 100 projects. Among his open source contributions Tom has contributed heavily to the Apigility project by Zend and maintains the Zend Framework projects for Doctrine.

As an API Architect Tom has built a Doctrine OAuth2 server adapter, Doctrine integration with Apigility, doubled the speed for clients and helped to build a better solution for the modern REST API.

Tom supports mhprompt.org and has written a piece On Being a Bipolar Programmer mhprompt.org/2016/09/29/on-being-bipolar-programmer.html

Library Documentation

A good sign of a good developer is proper documentation.  An effort to consolidate documentation for API-Skeletons libraries and related code is found at docs.apiskeletons.com/en/latest/

The Doctrine in Apigility Book

book.apiskeletons.com/en/latest/

Blog

Tom keeps a blog at blog.tomhanderson.com detailing Apigility, Doctrine, and other projects.  Most posts are PHP related with the occasional distraction. 

Slides - Speaking Engagment History

Doctrine in Apigility - slides
An intermediate to advanced introduction to best practice technologies for building an API based on Doctrine using ZF2, Apigility, Doctrine 2, and Skipper.

Designing Entity Relationships - slides
A beginner to intermediate how-to for building best of breed databases by using canonical naming end-to-end from entity fields to database tables.  Correct naming principles for all field types are explained as well as why canonical naming in an application eases coding and overall maintenance and development of an application.

Doctrine QueryBuilder - slides
On the importance of building queries right in Doctrine.  Even behind DQL poor programming can result in catastrophic data leaks.  Also discusses data collection and the importance of taking in what the user gives you and filtering on the way out. 

Consuming Modern REST APIs - slides
Written for a Javascript audience, this walks through a history of APIs building up to an understanding of the Richardson Maturity Model and examples of consuming a Level 3 API.

Code Smells - slides
How to use phpcs for correcting and finding code smells and how to create your own company standard.

GraphQL and Doctrine for Javascript Developers - slides
An introduction to GraphQL and how to use filters when they are provided such as GraphQL and Doctrine.

GraphQL Implemented for Doctrine - slides
Front and and backend development with GraphQL and detailing the implementation of Doctrine in GraphQL.

Github Organizations

API-Skeletons
This organization houses many open source projects Tom has created.  Most extend from his work in Apigility and Doctrine.  Tom is the primary maintainer of all of these repositories.

ZF Campus
This organization is owned by Zend.  Tom has contributed to many of the Apigility repositories listed here.

Doctrine
Tom maintains the ZF2 libraries for Doctrine.

TomHAnderson
This is Tom's personal Github account.  Every repository listed on Tom's account is either owned by him or he has contributed to the project.

Websites

apiskeletons.com details many libraries involved in Doctrine in Apigility.

etreedb.org was created in 1999 and is still an active website with active development.  In fact etreedb.org drives much of the innovation Tom creates such as Doctrine Auditing.

Enhantsy was active from 2012-2014.  This plugin rewrote Etsy pages as they were downloaded to provide functionality Etsy couldn't or didn't already have.  There is a video created by a user which shows a little bit of the functionality:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgXwzDPiOVA