Hi, I'm Roman Pronskiy 👋
I lead PhpStorm at JetBrains and founded The PHP Foundation. Lately obsessed with what happens when AI moves inside the IDE. Also: music.
Originally from Kharkov, Ukraine, now based in Amsterdam, NL.
Projects
- PhpStorm — the IDE for PHP developers. Leading the team at JetBrains. Active
- The PHP Foundation — funding the developers who keep PHP alive. Active
Writing
- 2024 · 06 Running PHP 1.0 in 2024 Post
- 2023 · 10 Turn Any PHP Script into a Native Single-File Binary Post
- 2022 · 10 Generics via Attributes in PHP — Can We Have Them? Post
Videos
These AI Dev Tools Changed How I Code This Week
Claude Code tricks, Wispr, Superpowers, PHP news — This Week's Dev Gems
MCP — What is that?
Benchmarking Laravel with Swoole, FrankenPHP, RoadRunner, php-fpm, ngx-php
Talks
- 2025 The PHP Foundation and What's Next for PHP PHPTalks — Barcelona
- 2025 Growing PHP for the Future PHPverse 2025
- 2024 The PHP Foundation Laracon EU — Amsterdam
- 2023 Programming language as a product — how should PHP evolve? PHPCon — Poland
- 2022 The PHP Foundation: past, present, future Forum PHP — France