I'm a software engineer and architect with more than 20 years of experience. My main areas of specialization and interest are networking protocols, distributed systems (yeap, that includes cloud), performance, availability, and scalability of web services. My main programming languages are C/C++, Java, Perl, and Python. In that order. I love Linux. I have a masters in Computer Science in the area of data networks, have some patents, and several publications in the area of networking protocols, system manageability, and web services performance and scalability.