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Mike Whitaker is a Perl consultant, currently working for CricViz and Shadowcat, and a founder board member of Enlightened Perl. He has an MA in Computer Science from Cambridge University, England, and in the past he's also ported a CAD/CAM modeller to various Unix platforms (including one of the first HP PA2-RISC machines in the world), worked as postmaster at the UK's largest ISP, sworn at the Y! Euro News codebase, written the backend for the Perplexcity puzzle card game (in Perl, naturally) and developed the web infrastructure for the world's largest single-sport website, CricInfo. To add to that, for his sins, he's helped maintain and modernise legacy codebases for LOVEFiLM and multiple UK ISPs.

In his spare time he writes novels, takes photographs, runs a small recording studio, plays guitar, bass and sings, manages multiple Discord servers and the odd Science Fiction convention. He's married to a computer-literate, cricket-loving, keyboard-playing veterinary surgeon, with whom he has a 24 year old son and a variable number of cats (currently 5).

• London Perl & Raku Workshop 2024
• London Perl Workshop 2018
• London Perl Workshop 2017
• London Perl Workshop
• London Perl Workshop
• London Perl Workshop 2011, the UK Perl Workshop
• London Perl Workshop 2010
• London Perl Workshop 2009
• Italian Perl Workshop 2009
• YAPC|10
• The Perl Oasis
• London Perl Workshop 2008
• YAPC::NA 2008