Joshua Gertzen is a professional computer programmer with over ten years experience in software development. His knowledge and experience range from utilizing differing programming languages, development frameworks, and architectural patterns, to troubleshooting complex architectural issues. Over the last six years, he has played a key role in building the technology infrastructure at Custom Credit Systems, a Dallas-based software company. His primary focus over that time has been building web architectures that utilize DHTML and/or Ajax programming techniques. Additionally, he has been the primary architect behind building, maintaining, and enhancing the ThinWire Ajax Framework, which was recently open sourced.