Mat Johns is an agile software engineer, hands-on architect, and general technologist based in London. His experience with the Web reaches all the way back to his misspent youth and some rather hacktastic code, but he eventually grew up to graduate from the University of Southampton with a Masters degree in Computer Science with Distributed Systems and Networks. Having worked for a number of startups on various web projects and systems since then, nowadays Mat specializes in designing and creating high performance and scalable web services, currently in the Internet TV world.Away from technology, Mat is an avid explorer, and he endeavors to seek out new destinations and adventures as much as possible. He is also a qualified yacht skipper and regularly races in, around, and beyond the Solent. You can follow him on Twitter at @matjohns