Roman Pronskiy

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.

Contacts

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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

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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

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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

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