Mark Atwood is the Director of Community Development for Gear6. Prior to that, he was a Senior Technology Advisor for Network.com for Sun Microsystems. He contributes Open Source projects such as the Drizzle high performance web and cloud scale database project. He is the author of a storage engine for Amazon AWS. He is a coauthor of the OAuth Core specification, and is a contributor to technologies such as OpenID, Microformats, OTP, and SNMP. In the past he has been involved in projects to build large self-configuring internet networks, including a widely deployed net-connected CATV consumer appliance, a PSTN internet application, and a Mil-Spec decision support intel application. He lives in Seattle.