Alastair Roy Poole is a programmer and writer from Aberdeen, Scotland. He has a passion for writing low-level implementations of popular technologies, as well as creating simple solutions to complicated problems.
He has been working with free and open source software since the mid-1990s, and many of his projects have been distributed worldwide as an author of both applications and libraries. He specializes in C, Perl, and, increasingly, in Go (among other technologies).
Alastair has a strong aversion to reliance on cloud-based technologies and severe reservations about the corporate-led direction of most open source technologies today. He has great admiration for projects with strong leadership, especially the OpenBSD project.
I would like to thank my family for their continued support throughout my life. Most specifically, I must mention my partner-in-crime, Anastasija, for pushing me and keeping me motivated in my work and making me happy too.