Wez Furlong is Co-Founder of KumoMTA where he is building high performance scalable MTA software as Open Source, and is the creator of WezTerm, a powerful cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer.

Wez was a Principal Software Engineer at Facebook for over a decade, focusing on Developer Infrastructure and Productivity. He created Watchman and the EdenFS component of Sapling SCM. Both of these Open Source projects are critical in scaling the build, source control and developer infrastructure at Facebook/Meta.

Prior to Facebook Wez was Chief Architect and Director of Engineering at Message Systems for the better part of a decade where he built messaging infrastructure that powers many of the worlds largest email service providers.

A strong proponent of Open Source, Wez has made major contributions to the PHP programming language core in the form of the streams and database abstraction layers, and is author of a number of other extensions.

Wez enjoys sharing knowledge, and this has manifested in the form of a number of articles for php|architect and PHP Magazine, Oracle Technology Network and IBM developerWorks. He has been a speaker at numerous PHP and Open Source conferences worldwide.

Wez also offers his services as a Mentor.