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Welcome to Daniel Scherzer's personal website. I am a software engineer with experience working in PHP, JavaScript, Python, C, Rust, and other languages.

I completed my undergraduate education at Tufts University, double majoring in Computer Science and Political Science and graduating magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree. As part of my work in Computer Science, I chose to write an honors thesis in my senior year, see here for details. I continued at Tufts for graduate school, graduating with a Master of Science in Computer Science degree.

In my free time, I contribute to various open-source projects, most notably as a release manager for PHP 8.5 (where I am one of two "rookie" release managers) and for PHP 8.6 (where I am the "veteran" release manager). I also contribute to PHP as a developer, and as the maintainer of the built-in Reflection extension.

See the links in the navigation bar above for more information about my experience.

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I also have a blog. You can see a full index of my posts here. My latest blog post is:

PHP2Shell: My Role

Friday, 30 October 2026

Last week, I wrote a blog post with a timeline of key events relating to the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities. That post was based only on public information, and even though I did some of the things listed in the timeline, I tried to separate myself from the content. Continue reading...