Tim Allwine is a Senior Software Engineer at O'Reilly &
Associates. He develops software for the Market Research group,
various spidering tools that collect data from disparate sites
(including Amazon.com), and is involved in the development of web
services at O'Reilly.
Jeff Barr handles web services evangelism and developer relations for
Amazon.com. In his spare time he collects RSS newsfeeds at
www.syndic8.com. He's happily
married and the father of five, including a second-generation hacker.
Erik Benson is the Technical Program Manager of Personalized
Merchandising at Amazon.com. He runs allconsuming.net
(http://www.allconsuming.net/) and has a weblog
at erikbenson.com (http://www.erikbenson.com/).
Duke Bhuphaibool studied Fine Arts in preparation for the grueling
rigors of Amazon.com web development. He, his lovely wife, and their
five rambunctious golden retrievers enjoy daily tea in the shade of
their home, Plum Cottage. Duke is currently trying to figure out the
difference between a bamboo flute and a back scratcher.
Bruce Bracken works as a Lead Web Development Engineer in the Search
& Browse group at Amazon.com. After collegiate studies in English
and Computer Science, he joined the ranks of Amazon.com to further
his exploration of search and browse technologies. He co-founded the
JavaScript advisory group to help standardize JavaScript use on
Amazon.com. Bruce also took eighth place in a Mellow Yellow drinking
contest when he was seven.
James Crowley turned to web development after failing in the
high-risk, low-reward field of medieval manuscript study. After
completing graduate school he decided that he would much prefer the
task of helping people find what they want to buy on the Internet. He
is happily married and the proud owner of a lot of books.
Joanna Daneman is a baby boomer, grew up in Pennsylvania, and
attended the University of Michigan. She works in the biotech field
and lives in Delaware. Her hobbies are reading, listening to and
playing music, and knitting. She also happens to be an Amazon Top
Reviewer.
Rael Dornfest (http://www.raelity.org) assesses,
experiments, programs, writes, and edits for O'Reilly &
Associates. He has edited, coauthored, and contributed to various
O'Reilly books. He is program chair for the O'Reilly Emerging
Technology Conference. In his copious free time, Rael develops bits
and bobs of freeware, including the Blosxom weblog application
(http://www.blosxom.com), and
maintains his raelity bytes weblog.
Cyrus Durgin is an Information Security Engineer and software
developer at Amazon.com. He spends his spare time house-hunting in
Seattle with his sweetie.
Alf Eaton (http://www.pmbrowser.info)
Kevin Hemenway (http://www.disobey.org), coauthor of
Mac OS X Hacks, columnist for MacTech, and
better known as Morbus Iff, is the creator of disobey.com, which
bills itself as "content for the discontented." Publisher and
developer of more home cooking than you could ever imagine, he gets
sleepy whenever he drinks merely one cup of coffee.
Adam Kalsey (http://kalsey.com)
Jonathan Leblang is VP of Web Services at Alexa Internet (http://www.alexa.com) and is working on
integrating Alexa's web information into the Amazon platform. Prior
to Alexa, he was at Amazon for three and a half years, where he
launched Wish List, Honor System, and many other site features.
Before joining Alexa, Jonathan was one of Amazon.com's first
customers and a beta tester of the Amazon.com web site, where he
found the infamous "negative quantity" bug (you could order a
negative number of books, and Amazon would owe you money). He lives
in Menlo Park, CA.
Chris McGarel has been a Senior Software Engineer with Cape Clear
(http://capescience.capeclear.com/) for three
years. Prior to that, he worked as a Technical Consultant in Java and
web technologies with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. Chris is also a
guitarist and composer, holding a postgraduate diploma in Music
Technology from Queen's University in his native Belfast, Northern
Ireland.
Myk Melez has been working with Mozilla since 1999, when he started
using it as a DHTML application platform. In 2000 he wrote ForumZilla
(http://forumzilla.mozdev.org/), a weblog reader
built with XUL and other Mozilla application framework technologies,
and since 2001 he has worked as a web application developer for
mozilla.org (http://www.mozilla.org/).
Nelson Minar likes hacking stuff on the Internet, particularly
distributed and decentralized systems. He is a software engineer at
Google.
Sean Nolan founded Software Poetry
(http://www.softwarepoetry.com/), and was the
Chief Technical Officer for drugstore.com, where he was the fifth
employee and led the design and implementation of their award-winning
e-commerce systems. While at drugstore.com, Sean was honored as one
of the nation's Premier 100 IT Leaders for 2001 by Computerworld
magazine.
Reid Philpot lives and works in London, England. He runs Exploding
Fist (http://www.explodingfist.com/), a popular,
award-winning weblog that focuses on new media and technology.
Mark Pilgrim (http://diveintomark.org) is the
author of Dive Into Python, a free Python book
for experienced programmers, and Dive Into
Accessibility, a free book on web accessibility
techniques. He works for MassLight, a Washington, DC-based training
and web development company where, unsurprisingly, he does training
and web development. But he lives outside Raleigh, NC, because it's
warmer.
Jim Roche has worked as a Software Test Engineer for Amazon.com for
four years. Since initially joining the Auctions team, he has worked
in some degree with most of the software teams in the company. His
dog, Maxine, holds court on the seventh floor of the company
headquarters, where she makes sure that no one is loitering
unnecessarily or wasting food.
Scott Windsor is a code monkey for Amazon.com in Seattle, WA. In his
spare time he collects odd PEZ dispensers and tries to take over the
world.
Dan Wood is chief architect of Watson (http://www.karelia.com/watson).
David Yarbrough is a Senior Systems Engineer at Amazon.com in
Seattle, WA.
Michael Yoon (http://michael.yoon.org) has worked in the
software industry since 1995, most recently at ArsDigita Corporation
(now part of Red Hat). He has a BA in English.
