Brian McCallister is a programmery kind of person who loves that folks are willing to pay him to write code. He works as an Architect and Engineering Manager at Ning, a platform for building your own social websites. Brian has worked variously as a programmer, technical writer, and systems administrator for over a decade on projects ranging from telecommunications GIS systems to loom control drivers. He is proud to be a Member of the Apache Software Foundation, and serves there as Vice President, Apache ActiveMQ.