Perrin Harkins
Senior Developer

Perrin Harkins has helped build technology systems for some of the most well-known web-based companies in the world. He was one of the primary architects of the eToys.com web system, which handled e-commerce traffic second only to Amazon and eBay during the 2000 Christmas shopping season. Prior to eToys, he was a senior developer at CitySearch.com where he led efforts in performance tuning and restructuring the system architecture to allow for efficient development. He has also worked as a website performance tuning consultant.

Perrin is well known in the Perl community, and a member of the Apache Software Foundation. He has given technical presentations at ApacheCon and the O'Reilly Open Source Convention about techniques for building scalable websites, and has contributed to several books on web development. His articles can be found on the perl.com site run by O'Reilly & Associates.