Chief Monkey, Peter Seibel
I am either a writer turned programmer or programmer turned writer. After picking up an undergraduate degree in English and working briefly as a journalist, I was seduced by the web. In the early ’90s I hacked Perl for Mother Jones magazine and Organic Online. I participated in the Java revolution as an early employee at WebLogic and later taught Java programming at UC Berkeley Extension. I am also one of the few second generation Lisp programmers on the planet and was a childhood shareholder in Symbolics, Inc. In 2003 I quit my job as the architect of a Java-based transactional messaging system to hack Lisp for a year. Instead I ended up spending two years writing a book, the Jolt Productivity Award winning Practical Common Lisp. My most recent book is Coders at Work, a collection of Q&A interviews with fifteen notable programmers and computer scientists. When I'm not writing books and programming computers I enjoy practicing tai chi. I live in Berkeley, California, with my wife Lily, daughter Amelia, and our dog Mahlanie.
Gigamonkeys Consulting
If you need an experienced software developer who can get up to speed on your problems quickly, who can write great code, and who can communicate well both in person and in writing, I’m your man. Whether you need some quick-turnaround tactical programming or help getting a handle on your overall development process, I can help. I’m particularly interested in helping teams establish good development and QA practices.
I’m available for in-person consultations in the San Francisco Bay Area and can work remotely for clients elsewhere. Contact me to discuss availability.
You can hire a billion monkeys, or you can hire me.