Chris Mullins Application 2006

About me
My name is Chris Mullins. I'm the Chief Software Engineer at Coversant. I have been a member of the JSF for a number of years now, and work on XMPP software round the clock.

XMPP Projects
I am the one of the principal engineers behind the SoapBox Server and the SoapBox Framework. I've implemented a huge number of JEPS on both the client and server side (MUC, PubSub, and too many little ones to list), and have been instrumental in the adoption of XMPP across a number of commerical applications based on .NET.

The most recent project I participated in was a productization of the SoapBox Server and Framework running on 64-bit Itanium boxes.

Code

 * Working on all sorts of XMPP googies.
 * As part of the Itanium rollout, I built some very interesting dynamic xmpp load generation tools. Stressing a big server is really tough, and these are the tools to do it with!

Plans for the future

 * Continue integrating XMPP into corporate applications.
 * Continue deploying the SoapBox Solution to small, medium, and large companies for their federated IM solutions.

XMPP - Why I like it
Open protocols based on XML are the way to go. We're continuing to see XMPP used in all sorts of way it was never intended, and this trend looks to be accelerating.

Contact
xmpp:cmullins@coversant.net mailto:cmullins@coversant.net