Xpaul acquired his nickname in the late 1900s at dot-com incubator Idealab! while still pursuing undergraduate studies at Caltech.
The Internet was all the rage, compiling X11 frame buffer drivers on Linux for laptops was the new hotness, and the apps of the time were X11 widgets like xterminal, xcalc, and x-googly-eyes, so when it turned out there was already a "paul" on the qmail server, "xpaul" was born.
Reared by ethical hackers, he since developed, operated, and supported production platform and development infrastructure for:
* dozens of teams,
* hundreds of websites,
* tens of thousands of servers,
* millions of users per month,
* hundreds of millions of dollars of assets under management,
* billions of pageviews per month,
at companies from startups to large enterprises, including Yahoo! and Disney, Deep 6 AI, Peer Street, and now Crexi, largely using Free/Libre and Open Source software.
His enthusiasm for solving intricate software problems has yet to wane.