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About Chris Pettitt

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I’ve been programming for the majority of my life, starting with gw-basic on an IBM XT. I taught myself Turbo Pascal and learned C++ (and C in the process) in a college course while I was a freshman in high school. Since then I have had the opportunity to work with a number of great developers and to work on several exciting projects. At VERITAS and Symantec, I worked on VERITAS Cluster Server. At Laszlo I led server development for Laszlo Webtop. Most recently I’ve been working in the Kernel team at LinkedIn.

In my spare time I enjoy working with open source projects and trying new technologies. I’ve contributed to git (git-p4, specifically), Rubinius, and MacPorts. I’ve also written Samsarin PHP Widget, a plugin that allows PHP code in the Wordpress sidebar. I’ve enjoyed working with Ruby for years and more recently I’ve been looking at Lua.

Outside of programming, I have a number of other interests:

You can reach me via email: chris [at] samsarin [dot] com