Seattle, WA | Lowell, MA | Roslindale, MA
Also known as: mark_atwood
I speak and write publicly to increase awareness of open source development philosophies and of noteworthy projects, especially in the area of cloud computing. I am a regular speaker and participant at conferences covering software technology, cloud computing, and open standards. I regularly speak at O'Reilly OSCON, MySQL, Linux.conf.au, Internet Identity Workshop, and at CloudCamps. I also regularly speak at smaller meetups, users groups, classrooms of students, and at unconferences. I have been regularly interviewed and quoted in the technology press. I am skilled at self-directed distributed team working styles collaborating via email, IRC, IM, voice, and shared docs. I am used to extensive travel. I am a coauthor of the original OAuth Core specification. I have contributed to DrizzleDB and related projects. I am the author of a MySQL storage engine for Amazon AWS. The net changes everything it touches. I like changing it so it changes more. Specialties public speaking, community management, open source advocacy, developer evangelism, cloud computing, mysql, drizzle db, web APIs, memcached, gearman, nosql, identity, security, cryptography, perl, python, C, unconferences, open source, open standards, oauth
