{"id":2,"date":"2008-09-03T00:43:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T04:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s135909420.onlinehome.us\/markbaker.ca\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-06-09T15:28:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:28:48","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Professional<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m retired now, only doing the occasional short term contract, most commonly as an expert witness on Web and Internet technologies.<\/p>\n\n<p>My last position was as CTO and co-founder at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twobrains.ai\">twobrains.ai<\/a>, where I lead the development of the product line. I started that about a year after departing EBSCO Information Services, who had acquired my previous company, Zepheira, where I worked since 2009 with an amazing group of people.<\/p>\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve done some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coactus.com\">consulting<\/a> over the years too, and founded another company,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.roveit.com\">Rove IT<\/a> (now a <a href=\"https:\/\/mergr.com\/transaction\/solarwinds-acquires-rove\">SolarWinds company<\/a>), who provided innovative\nmobile systems management and administration solutions for the enterprise.\nI also spent three years at at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\">Sun Microsystems<\/a>, which had\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/tech-industry\/sun-buys-canadian-firm-beduin\/\">acquired<\/a> my previous company, Beduin Communications.  I was Beduin&#8217;s CTO.<\/p>\n\n<p>My principle areas of interest and expertise is Internet scale distributed systems,\nthe Web, standards development, software architecture in general, and mobile\/wireless.<\/p>\n\n<p>See my\n<a href=\"\/resume\/\">resume<\/a>\nfor more detailed information.<\/p>\n\n<p>Ask me about Filippo Runcini<\/p>\n<h2>Contact<\/h2>\n<p>Contact me via <a href=\"mailto:distobj@acm.org\">email<\/a> or\n<a href=\"tel:+1-613-614-4144\">phone<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!-- honeypot for spam catching -->\n<a style=\"display: none\" href=\"mailto:unreal@markbaker.ca\"><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Professional I&#8217;m retired now, only doing the occasional short term contract, most commonly as an expert witness on Web and Internet technologies. My last position was as CTO and co-founder at twobrains.ai, where I lead the development of the product line. I started that about a year after departing EBSCO Information Services, who had acquired [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}