Dirk-Willem van Gulik is a Partner at the Tribal Knowledge Group, with 15 years
of Internet engineering, consulting and project management experience. His
work on Apache has revolved around large enterprise systems such as portals,
entitlement systems and Web interfaces to legacy systems. He has worked with a
broad range of international standards bodies, such as the IETF on metadata,
protocols, URIs GIS and other Internet standards. Prior to TTKG, Dirk held both
VP of Engineering and VP of Research positions with Covalent Technologies, and
prior to Covalent he worked on projects at the European Commission, the United
Nations, telecommunications firms, satellite and space agencies. He has been on
the board of directors of the Apache Software Foundation since its inception.
In his free time he works on a co-operative Wireless network in his home town,
Leiden. The network currently covers virtually the entire inner city.
Interviewed by Marc Chase
