The mononymous Spike is the sort of person who throws around words like "mononymous". Having derived the MVC pattern from first principles in Perl he discovered Rails and never looked back. And that was after he'd already started the world's first ISP looking like 'Morpheus' from The Matrix.Also, Spike Ilacqua founded Indra's Net in 1994. He was previously the chief engineer and systems administrator for the nation’s first Internet Service Provider, Software Tool & Die. Spike serves as Indra’s guiding visionary and hands-on CTO. His devotion to customer service is as legendary as his technology skills.