Carl Mercier’s blog

	Name: Mercier, Carl Date of birth: May 23, 1979 Place of birth: Granby, Quebec, Canada Place of residence: Granby, Quebec, Canada Spoken & written languages: French, English
I am a long time entrepreneur with a passion for technology and Ruby on Rails. I started my first technology company (although it was very small) at age 13. I am currently at the head of Karabunga, the makers of Defensio

Work Experience

• Karabunga, inc., founder & CEO, 2006-…
• AjaxWhois.com (acquired)
• AdonisTech Corporation, founder & CEO, 1998-2006 (acquired)
• MyBinaries.com (Usenet provider), founder, 2002-2004 (acquired)
• BinCrawler.com (Usenet search engine), founder, 2002-2003 (acquired)
• Steelwave Studios (recording studio), founder, 1995-1998

Current projects

• Karabunga, inc. > Defensio

Education

• Business Management, Stonehill College (North Easton, MA, USA)
• Business Management, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (Québec, Canada)
• Sound engineering, Trebas Institute (Québec, Canada)
• Autodidact computer programming, hardware, networking and database management (since I’m 7 years old)

Interests

• Business, Internet startups
• Technology, mobile devices, computers
• Fitness and healthy lifestyle

Technology/Coding/Geeking

• Mac OS X, Linux, Windows
• Ruby on Rails, Python (Django), Microsoft .NET (WinForms & ASP.NET), (X)HTML, JavaScript
• TextMate, Visual Studio 2003/2005
• MySQL 5, Postgresql 8, MS SQL 2000/2005
• Nginx, Lighttpd, Apache, Mongrel