Mark Atwood is a Senior Consultant in Professional Services for Sun MySQL, where he directly helps users of MySQL to optimize applications, architect and design solutions, and to modify MySQL storage and behavior in new and innovative ways. In his spare time he writes new MySQL plugins, and contributes to the Drizzle project. He is the author of a storage engine for Amazon AWS. He is a coauthor of the OAuth Core specification, and is a contributor to technologies such as OpenID, Microformats, OTP, and SNMP. In the past he has been involved in projects to build large self-configuring internet networks, including a widely deployed net-connected CATV consumer appliance, a PSTN internet application, and a Mil-Spec decision support intel application. He lives in Seattle.