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Mark Atwood
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I contribute to, support, and promote open-source projects related to
Cloud Computing and Databases.
I have contributed to DrizzleDB and to libmemcached and related
projects. I am the author of a MySQL storage engine for Amazon AWS. I
am a coauthor of the OAuth Core specification, and am a contributor to
technologies such as OpenID, Microformats, OTP, and SNMP.
I am a regular speaker and participant at O'Reilly and other software
technology and standards conferences.
I have 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.
I've been hacking, building, and administering UNIX systems, open
source projects, and TCP/IP based applications since 1987.
The net changes everything it touches. I like changing it so it changes more.
Technical Skills and Interests
Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, Eucalyptus Systems
NoSQL storage
Security, Authentication, Identity
The Drizzle fork of MySQL, including plugins & storage engines
Languages: SQL, Perl, Python, C, C++
Distributed Source Control Systems, such as Bazaar, Mercurial, and GIt
TCP/IP Networking
Open Standards, Open Protocols, and Distributed Social Networking
Jabber/XMPP
Summary of Experience
Jun 2008 to present, ongoing
DrizzleDB project
Contributor: writing and refactoring code in a large C++ multithreaded open-source database
Evangelist: public speaking, social media, and status presentations
Merge Steward: operate the patch and merge queue and the Jenkins continuous integration
Nov 2010 to Jun 2011
Eucalyptus Systems
Community Manager
Conference attendance and community speaking
This was a remote position with extensive travel.
Sept 2009 to April 2010
Gear6
Director of Community Development
I was responsible for community management for the company in
general, for the company's fork of the Memcached server, and for
Memcached in general. I worked with non-employee community
developers, and with the developers and staff of other memcached
and NoSQL companies and organizations.
I interacted with the reporters and editors in the technology
press, spoke at conferences, and participated in relevant online
forums. I also managed the flow of bugs and patches between the
company fork and the community versions of Memcached.
I pushed the effort to port the company's products to Amazon Web Services.
This was a remote position with extensive travel.
Dec 2008 to Sept 2009
Sun Microsystems Network.com
Senior Technology Advisor
I participated in reviews and design of existing and proposed
Sun technologies for use in the Sun Cloud and Network.com.
I worked on Drizzle, Gearman, Memcached, other related open
source projects, with the goal of integrating them with Sun
Cloud.
This was a remote position with extensive travel.
Nov 2007 to Dec 2008
MySQL Inc Professional Services.
Sun Microsystems Professional Services.
Professional Services consulting for users of MySQL,
concentrating on custom storage engines, specialized server
patches, and MySQL User Defined Functions.
I travelled extensively to clients' worksites. I worked closely
with client web developers, DBAs, IT staff, and project
managers, often under conditions of high stress.
I worked in a remote distributed manner, while collaborating via
email, IRC, phone, Skype, Wiki & XMPP Instant Message.
July 2006 to present
Open Source Developer
Open Source Conference participant
Linux.conf.au 2009-2011, speaker and ran BOF sessions
SG FOOcamp 2008, ran sessions
FOOcamp 2007, ran sessions
Internet Identity Workshop 2009-2011
MySQL Con 2007-2011, speaker and ran BOF sessions
OScon 2007-2011, spoke and ran BOF sessions
Ignite Seattle 2007-2011
MySQL Camp 2006, Open SQL Camp 2008-2010
NoSQL Live Boston 2010, speaker
NoSQL East Atlanta 2010, speaker
CloudCamps, 2009-2011
Projects
Contributor to Drizzle: A High-Performance Microkernel DBMS for Scale-Out Applications
Contributor to libmemcached
Co-author of the OAuth Core 1.0 specification
Command line tools for Amazon AWS S3, checked into CPAN
MySQL Storage Engine for Amazon AWS S3 (presented at MySQL Con 2007)
Detailed knowledge of MySQL network storage engines
MySQL AgentX SNMP subagent for RDMS-MIB
rem2ics, convert "remind" db to iCal. Written in Perl
patches accepted for improvements to Flickr::Upload Perl module
patch accepted for bugfix to Gaim (now Pidgen/Purple)
patched libcurl to add HTTP auth type "AWS"
patched libcurl to add HTTP auth type "Oauth"
July 2006 to Nov 2007
Contractor / Consultant
Collaboration via email, IRC, phone, skype, & IM
Trained developers and admins in AWS features, APIs, and programming
conducted over IRC
Design for MySQL Cluster generic component in a virtualizing grid
Consultation re MySQL SE options on hardware accelerator
February 2001 to July 2006
Digeo, Inc Engineer
Responsible for networking features for a Linux based networked
consumer appliance (security, iptables, PCMCIA, USB, hotplug)
Most of the networking automation written in Perl
Lucent Agere IEEE 802.11B ORiNOCO network device driver
made Linux system act as wireless Access Point
net-snmp SNMP agent, implemented both subagent and query code
Implemented a SIP VoIP client with a USB handset
Implemented key parts of a IPTV client (HDTV MPEG over multicast IP)
Operation and development of automated build servers.
Build automation written in Perl
Configuration and management of a custom computing Xen-based grid
running DistCC.
May 2000 to December 2000
f5 Networks, Inc Test Engineer
Complex, automated, and ad hoc testing of an internet appliance.
Coded test frameworks in Perl and Python.
Added protocol dissectors to Ethereal Wireshark.
June 1999 to May 2000
Contractor / Consultant
Collaboration via Videoconferencing.
Wrote SNMP subagents
Remote sysadmin and troubleshooting.
Wrote a translator for a proprietary telephony control language
into Java. Wrote the translator in Perl.
September 1996 to June 1999
Ampersand, Inc Software Engineer
Designed, implemented, tested, debugged and
documented large software systems.
Very large, complex, and advanced Perl development environment
Experience working in a team environment.
Experience doing UI design, telephony, WAN and MAN design.
Held a US DOD clearance.
May 1996 to September 1996
HomeStar Communications, Inc System Administrator
UNIX system admin and webmaster for an ISP and Web hosting
company. Configured and maintained production servers. Sole
administrator of network security, routing and physical
networking, email, DNS, USENET, customer setup, resource
monitoring and accounting. Custom CGI programming and web
server development.
April 1995 to May 1996
A&M Networking, Inc Engineer
Provided short-term and long-term expertise for customers on
maintenance contracts and on a billed per-hour basis. All aspects of
WAN/LAN integration, UNIX, X-Windows, TCP/IP, routers. Customers
included ISPs, Internet Transit Providers, and business offices
running UNIX, Windows, and Netware. Experience in crisis
situations, rapid troubleshooting, telephone and remote network
support, and customer relations.
Lots of sysadmin scripting automation, written in Perl and shell.
Innovated interfacing Web servers and SQL servers in
1995. Installed, configured, and administered Oracle8 and
Sybase. Programmed using Oracle OCI, Perl modules, Delphi C/S,
CGI, and custom modified HTTP servers.
Ran seminars, one on one training, press interviews, and
pre-sales for customers, executives, and the press in
"internet", "web servers", and "HTML".
March 1992 to April 1995
WBK Controls, Inc Software Engineer
Implemented several embedded systems, mostly for USAF military
contracts. Responsible for all phases of software
specification and design. Primarily responsible for all custom
software, including design, coding, testing, and
documentation.
Participated in formal design and engineering reviews. Adhered
to formal standards, including MIL-STD-2167A.
Languages used were Ada, C, and assembly (68HC11) on UNIX
workstations and embedded processors. User interfaces to
automated test control systems. Very low level hardware
interfaces, timing and bit twiddling.
Wrote a Linux device driver for the HPIB/GPIB/IEEE 488 bus
for an early Linux kernel.
Wrote test case generators and wire list generators in Perl4.
to 1994
University of Utah
Developer/Architect. Was lead architech and a team developer
implementing a pre-Doom client/server multiplayer first person
shooter. This game was very addictive until the local
sysadmins shut it down.
Teaching Assistant. Training non-CS students from "how to login"
to introductory programming and compilation.
Tutor. Effectively taught young fearful students who needed
help with remedial Algebra.
Research Assistant in a Statistics Laboratory. Organized
sensitive research records, ran statistical analysis programs,
and did sysadmin work.
Education
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 1994
University of Utah
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