Matt S Trout is a pure mathematics graduate who accidentally got addicted to perl as a result of a nasty backup accident and has been coding for fun, profit and occasionally just to prove a point since, resulting in him becoming the lead technical staffer of Shadowcat Systems Ltd., an open-source software development and consultancy firm, one of the core team members of the Catalyst web framework project and the founder and lead developer of the Object-Relational Mapping library DBIx::Class.