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Mark Thomas

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Located in:
Birmingham, United Kingdom

About Me

Mark Thomas is a Senior Software Engineer for the SpringSource Division of VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW). Mark has been using and developing Tomcat for over six years. He first got involved in the development of Tomcat when he needed better control over the SSL configuration than was available at the time. After fixing that first bug, he started working his way through the remaining Tomcat bugs and is still going. Along the way Mark has become a Tomcat committer and PMC member, volunteered to be the Tomcat 4 & 7 release manager, created the Tomcat security pages, become a member of the ASF and joined the Apache Security Committee. He also helps maintain the ASF's Bugzilla instances. Mark has a MEng in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Experience

Current: Senior Guru at VMWare, Inc. since January 2005 (7 years, 1 month)
at Apache Software Foundation since June 2009 (2 years, 8 months)
Past: Junior Guru at Self Employed from May 2001 to December 2004 (3 years, 7 months)
Swami Initiate at from January 1999 to May 2001 (2 years, 4 months)
Programmer & Barrista at Starbucks from June 1996 to December 1998 (2 years, 6 months)
Education: MEng in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from University of Birmingham in 1996
Skills: Expert in Tomcat 7, tc Server, Java Programming, Security, Project Management
Proficient in MS Office, RabbitMQ, Ruby on Rails
Experienced in Python, JBoss, MSMQ, Making Coffee
Website: My Website
Twitter: mthomas
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mark-thomas/0/5a9/8ba

Activity

Blogs:
Best Practices for Securing Apache Tomcat 7 (November 02,11 | 0 comments)
New closeMethod for JNDI Resources (August 17,11 | 3 comments)
4 Mistakes To Avoid On Apache Tomcat (August 03,11 | 1 comments)
Blog Comments:
New closeMethod for JNDI Resources (August 17,11 | 3 comments)
Session Fixation Protection (April 25,11 | 5 comments)
Apache Tomcat 7 has been released (June 29,10 | 5 comments)
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