Ariel Sommeria-Klein is a software architect and developer. He is:

- co-founder of Silex Labs, a non-profit organization that works for the promotion of open-source software.

- team lead for the AmfPHP, a tool for providing cloud services with PHP.

- creator of Baguette AMF, a commercial extension for PHP that parses AMF and integrates with AmfPHP.

His personal website and blog on software development is here.

He currently lives in Geneva, Switzerland. He also plays saxophone quite well for a programmer.