James Luedke is a professional software developer that has contributed to several open source projects including Gearman and Drizzle. He has also been a key contributor to Project DoD. A software engineer for 10+ years, his professional interests and expertise include distributed computing, high-volume messaging, and clustering. In his spare time, James has hacked on Blizzard's WoW API and co-authored the BTP library, which can be used to automate tasks and actions in the game.