Mark Atwood tel:+1-206-604-2198 mailto:resume@mark.atwood.name http://mark.atwood.name/resume.txt last changed: 20110808 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 END