Patrick Chanezon is an API Evangelist at Google since 2005. These days his main interests are Google APIs, social software and identity, REST, SOAP and Ajax, Java, Groovy, Javascript, PHP, Ruby and Python. Previously he worked on portals, blogs and syndication feeds at Sun Microsystems, AOL and Netscape. He's the co-founder of the ROME - Atom and RSS utilities in java open source project.

More on his blog at http://wordpress.chanezon.com/

Patrick is French, so he takes long vacations in the summer and likes to drink red wine with baguette and stinky cheese while wearing a beret.

Apart from programming and reading books his main interest in life is spending time with his wife and 3 kids.