xb95.com

Welcome

This is the home page for Mark Smith aka xb95. There's not really much here. If you need to get in touch with me, please email "mark" at this domain.

Professional

• [2004] Danga Interactive - worked on LiveJournal.com, Perlbal, MogileFS, other projects
• [2005/6] Six Apart - worked on the above, Vox.com, and other stuff
• [2007] CCP Games - worked on the EVE API, the new Killmail system [me]
• [2008] Mozilla - working in the IT group as MySQL DBA/Assorted Web Stuff
• [2009] Google - working as a Site Reliability Engineer

Ask for more information if needed.

Projects

• Net::DNS::Multicast - a Perl implementation of multicast DNS
• Proximo - a Perl implementation of a proxy for MySQL
• HTTP::HeaderParser::XS - an XS implementation of HTTP header parser
• LifeWiki - a Mason (mod_perl) based wiki with full OpenID support
• ...others, haven't gotten around to writing the list out

Hobbies

• Amateur Radio (Ham Radio) - licensed operator, callsign KC8BCW
• Electronics/Software - dabbling in various things, trying to get into home automation type projects
• Video Games - typically MMOs; EVE Online, World of Warcraft, etc
• Motorcycles - riding my blue BMW F650GS around