Steve Vinoski is a veteran software developer focusing on distributed systems, middleware, and server-side web development. He's contributed to a variety of Erlang projects, including the Riak database developed and maintained by his employer, Basho Technologies, and the Yaws web server. He's also contributed dozens of bug-fix and feature patches to the Erlang/OTP codebase. Steve is also an author and speaker, having written or co-authored numerous articles and papers and given hundreds of presentations and tutorials at technical conferences and workshops.