Peter Clark is a Senior Java Developer at Code42 software, helping to keep data safe for the masses. Prior to that, he was the Director of Software Development for the Terra Populus project at the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota, where he led a group of 3 full-time staff and a varying number of grad students in developing the software infrastructure behind the MPC's data projects. Prior to joining the Minnesota Population Center, Clark worked in the private sector as a software developer for a small software startup that you've never heard of and is now out of business, an engineering manager for a dotcom-era technology company named Net Perceptions (which was a fun rollercoaster ride on the way up, and not-so-much-fun on the way down), and prior to that as a software engineer for Sun Microsystems and a small consulting company that you also haven't heard of, where he spent time building NeXTStep and OpenStep apps. He's hopeful that the number of dead companies on his resume won't be growing.He lives in Minnesota with his wife and two children, one of whom is jealous that he's a published author and she isn't yet.