xb95.com

Welcome

This is the home page for Mark Smith aka xb95. I don't keep detailed information here, but there is enough to give you an idea of my background and the sort of things I do. If you want to get in touch, send an email to "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 - created the EVE API and the new killmail system [me]
• [2008] Mozilla - worked in the IT group as MySQL DBA/Assorted Web Stuff
• [2009] Google - worked as a Site Reliability Engineer
• [2010] Dreamwidth - co-founder, technical lead, just about everything

More information and references are available upon request.

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 since 1995, 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 the California twisties