Valeriy Rabievskiy leads a web studio called stfalcon.com and is an active open source developer. Doctrine 2 is separated into common, DBAL, ORM, and migrations libraries. Entities are lightweight PHP classes that store data in object properties without needing to extend a base class. The EntityManager acts as the central access point for ORM functions like updating entities and accessing repositories. ZF2 integrates with Doctrine 2 through autoloading. The console provides commands for tasks like validating the schema, generating proxies, and running migrations to update the database schema.