Frank Wiles has worked in a wide variety of fields during his career and always enjoyed building applications, systems, and processes that improve upon the existing status quo. Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, not more complicated. The Open Source Software revolution has been showing the IT industry that you can have software that is easy, robust, and nearly error free with a low total cost of ownership. Frank started Revolution Systems to help businesses take full advantage of this revolutionary new type of software.
Some highlights of Frank's career:
- Co-authored the book Instant Perl Modules
Has published several articles in places like SysAdmin Magazine, www.perl.com, Linux Pro Magazine, and various other publications, on topics such as systems administration, mail filtering with milter, mod_perl 2.0, and large scale E-mail and Web systems.
His technical articles have appeared on the front pages of sites such as Slashdot, Digg, and Reddit.
- Frank has spoken on different aspects of Open Source technology at DjangoCon, Linux User Groups, ACM Chapter meetings, the CableLabs Small Market Conference, and the 5th Annual Southern California Linux Expo in 2007. View Frank's technical talks.
- 12+ years of enterprise level experience with Linux, Perl, Apache, Sendmail, PostgreSQL, DNS and many other Open Source technologies.
- Was honored to be invited to ORD Camp which was an amazing learning experience.
- Was invited to put together a top notch team of Perl developers for the 2007 Plat_forms Web framework contest help in Germany.
- Current maintainer of the Apache::DB, Apache::DProf, and Apache::SmallProf CPAN modules for debugging and profiling mod_perl applications. He is also the author of ModPerl::ParamBuilder which makes building custom Apache configuration directives easy.
- RHCE and LPI Level II certified.
Other places to find Frank
Please also take a moment to peruse Frank's technical writings, blog, or the services that Revolution Systems provides.