Mark Jason Dominus

Mark Jason Dominus is one of the founders of Kibology. Dominus is also a famed Perl programmer. He was the managing editor of www.perl.com and was a columnist for The Perl Journal (http://www.tpj.com/) for several years. Mark's other Perl-related articles have appeared in magazines such as Wired and IEEE Software. He recently published the long-awaited book Higher Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs.

Dominus is the author of several well known and widely used Perl modules, including Text::Template, Memoize, and Tie::File. His work on Rx (http://perl.plover.com/Rx/), a Perl regular expression debugger, won the 2000 Larry Wall Award for Practical Utility.

Dominus earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. During or shortly after his attendance ar Rensselaer, he is rumored to have cut the Student Union in half with a chainsaw [1].