Ben Evans is a consultant, an IT pro, occasional CTO, system architect, JavaScript Jedi, and blogger. Ben has run his own business, been a program manager at Microsoft, a tech director for a London design agency, a contractor on the BBC iPlayer project, and CTO of the Australian Music startup "Guvera". He's now working with new startups and tech incubators in between mild bouts of animal fostering and blogging. Starting in the mid-90's working with PERL, Ben has used VB, Java, C#, Ruby, JavaScript, more DSLs than he can count and has even designed his own language and parser. After living in the UK for 8 years from 2000 he returned to live in Australia where the sun is warm and the programming is fun.