[Banking-pm] Intro: NIKC

[Nik Clayton]

Given the sudden flurry of introductions I thought I'd jump in.

I'm Nik Clayton, NIKC on CPAN.  I work for a bank (well, Citigroup, and 
we own several banks) but I don't do anything on the banking side.  I'm 
one of the very small team that does the engineering for the e-mail 
backbone.  That's pretty much everything between the Internet and the 
internal Exchange servers.

So, lots of Perl.  All of the antispam is Perl, as is the antivirus 
(perl XS wrapper around a vendor's C++ AV engine), the other general 
filtering, and the message archiving system for compliance.  We also use 
  Perl in the glue for our build system (all our configurations are 
deployed as versioned Solaris packages which makes things easier), and 
for running thousands of automated tests across our configurations 
before they get deployed.  Everything from "Does Sendmail start up 
correctly given this new configuration file?" to "Do all these sample 
messages get filtered in the expected way with this new configuration?". 
  We also use it for automated tests of a server's configuration and 
network connectivity.

There are a few Test::* modules that have come out of this work.  The 
other thing that's sprung from it has been my continued maintenance of 
SVN::Web, since we needed a web based front end to our Subversion 
repository and, at the time, that was the closest fit.

N