Dave Cottlehuber has worked in IT and outsourcing for more than 20 years. He's worked in startups and Big Corporations, been a cook, sysadmin, a manager, & most preferred, as a ski patroller. Above all he enjoys exploring and sharing stuff with other people. As founder of http://www.skunkwerks.at/ he pushes UDP packets with the Swirl Project http://www.swirl-project.org/ using Erlang and Elixir. In his ample spare time, he contributes to Apache CouchDB http://couchdb.apache.org/ and hangs out with his family in the outdoors.