He was instrumental in helping launch Powerset, a semantic search engine acquired by microsoft in 2008. He started out as a Java developer, was later reborn as a Rubyist, and lately has discovered he is an Erlanger. He is the person behind Dynomite, an Erlang based open source distributed key value database modeled after Amazon’s Dynamo. When not hacking on Dynomite, Cliff likes to cook and brew beer.