Niall’s Weblog

Niall O’Higgins lives and works in San Francisco. He studied French and Computer Science at University College Dublin, where he didn’t do so badly and had an interesting time - even getting to spend a year at Paris X university reading French literature.

He’s been an active developer of the OpenBSD project since 2005 where his contributions include the rum 802.11b wireless driver (with Damien Bergamini), large file support for ext2fs and major portions of the OpenRCS and OpenCVS sub-projects.

He has a strong interest in P2P technology. He is a co-founder of the not-for-profit P2P Research Institute, where he writes articles, conducts large-scale crawling and quantitative analysis of P2P networks and authors a simple, efficient and portable BitTorrent implementation written in C, released under a BSD license.

He is employed at Metaweb Technologies where he gets to work on all the problems you might imagine are involved with creating a public database of all the world’s knowledge.

Outside of technology, he enjoys playing Jazz guitar and staying fit through boxing, Krav Maga and bicycling.