Scott Lystig Fritchie
Decade-long Erlang addict
Gemini Mobile Technologies
Scott Lystig Fritchie met his first UNIX system in 1986 and has almost never met one since that he didn't like. A career detour as a UNIX systems administrator got him neck-deep in messaging systems, e-mail and Usenet News. He rediscovered full-time programming while at Sendmail, Inc., where a colleague introduced him to Erlang in 2000. His world hasn't been the same since then.
Now at Gemini Mobile Technologies, Inc., he's back in the messaging world. He's deploying a distributed key-value database with strong consistency semantics, micro transactions, and on-the-fly resizing, all in Erlang to support a multi-million user webmail system. In addition to hacking Erlang code and occasionally the Erlang virtual machine, he's had papers published by USENIX, the Erlang User Conference, and the ACM. He is the workshop chair for the 2010 ACM SIGPLAN ICFP Erlang Workshop to be held in Baltimore, Maryland in September.
Now at Gemini Mobile Technologies, Inc., he's back in the messaging world. He's deploying a distributed key-value database with strong consistency semantics, micro transactions, and on-the-fly resizing, all in Erlang to support a multi-million user webmail system. In addition to hacking Erlang code and occasionally the Erlang virtual machine, he's had papers published by USENIX, the Erlang User Conference, and the ACM. He is the workshop chair for the 2010 ACM SIGPLAN ICFP Erlang Workshop to be held in Baltimore, Maryland in September.
