One has to have a hobby. Tragically mine is perilously close to work. So as part of learning about Infinispan (a distributed data grid) I created a RESTful server front end for it (in scala, of course), posted about it here.
Michael lives and works in the Blue Mountains, Australia (just outside of Sydney). 2 kids and a poodle.
He retired from Red Hat, worked on Drools and deltacloud and other bits, now working on a startup (CloudBees) when he isn't updating his profile, and various open source things.