"billo" has been a professional programmer for a long time. He has
written a wide range of software that includes VMS kernel tools,
publishing software (written in LISP), embedded factory automation
systems and Java web applications. In 1994, while at Interleaf, he
invented one of the first large-scale HTML web site publishing
systems,
Cyberleaf.
His pragmatic, possibly cynical, views on software development and
technology are evident in this description of
kayak.com technology.
Recently, billo was a Chief Architect at Intuit. During his tenure at Intuit, he drove design of a common Java platform for building web applications that has been adopted by many Intuit business units.