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The Erlware Team

Martin Logan

Martin Logan has been heavily involved with the Erlang community since 1999. Since that time he has had the privilege to work on Erlang full time for over 5 years. Martin’s great interest in distributed systems and service based design has led him to spend much of his career to studying and solving problems in that space. Wherever possible he tries to implement his solutions with Erlang.

Currently Martin brings his expertise to Orbitz Worldwide, one of the largest online travel companies in the world. There he leads the technical travel business services group developing solutions for their large scale distributed service based infrastructure. Most recently Martin has taken a leadership role with Erlware where he is a core developer and the primary developer of the Faxien package management system.

Eric Merritt

Eric is a veteran entrepreneur, author and public speaker. He is expert in the architecture, development and deployment of large-scale distributed systems on heterogeneous hardware, and the languages and platforms required to support them. His experience spans from IBM mainframe and mid-range systems, to distributed build systems and massive fleet deployment tools for Amazon.com, and to high-frequency trading systems and financial exchange systems for leading private brokerages. Eric is a co-author of the popular book “Erlang and OTP in Action” and a long time Erlang Developer. He is the primary author of the Sinan build tool for Erlang and the Joxa Language.

Tristan Sloughter

Tristan Sloughter specializes in large-scale concurrent systems and information retrieval. While at the IIT IR Lab Tristan worked on a scalable XML search engine and on developing a system for better diagnosing UTI's through the use of data mining technology to take advantage of patterns in patient data that are not obvious. Tristan brought his expertise to Orbitz Worldwide where he worked on their distributed cache system, real time monitoring and Hadoop based metric analysis.

Tristan now lends his expertise to eCD Market on their Erlang-based aggregation market system, build tools and cluster management. This work with the build tools has led him to be a core member of the Erlware team working on the Erlang build tool Sinan.

Jordan Wilberding

Jordan Wilberding is currently a Ph.D. student at the Information Retrieval Laboratory at Georgetown University. He focuses on several areas including: mediated search, large scale data mining, secured indexing, and hardware-optimized search.

Jordan is also employed at MITRE, where he works on prototyping solutions for multiple government agencies. He also does consulting work developing an Erlang-based application and configuration deployment system for eCD Market and is a key contributor to Erlware.

Some might say Jordan is a beer snob, but he prefers the term beer enthusiast. He enjoys homebrewing and drinking a wide variety of craft beers, but especially enjoys Belgian Trappist Ales and high-gravity hoppy ales. Jordan is also an amateur photgrapher and never leaves home without a camera or two.