Chromatic is the technical editor of the O'Reilly Network, specializing in programming, Linux®, and open source development. He's also been known to evangelize to his co-workers toward better development practices. chromatic has been known to produce startling numbers of test suites — and a few testing modules — for a few projects, including Perl 5, Perl 6, and Parrot. Someday, he'd like to claim some responsibility for improving the quality of all software, by writing articles, producing good code, giving interesting talks, and developing better tools. He lives just west of Portland, Oregon, with two programmers, one cat, and a backyard full of surprisingly pleasant swamp.
It's too late for him to choose a more realistic-sounding pen name.