Daniel Lopez is a senior software engineer with Covalent Technologies, the leading provider of solutions for Apache. Lopez is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, he speaks regularly at open source and Apache conferences, and he is the author of the Comanche configuration tool for Apache--which gives him a daily exposure to the problems new users face taking their first steps with Apache.
He enjoys teaching and writing and has published popular how-tos on Apache and Linux networking that have been translated into seven languages and included in several books.