William Pitcock

William Pitcock, also known as nenolod, (born June 3, 1987), is an American software engineer known for his work on Audacious Media Player, Hyperion (the IRC daemon software that the freenode open-source IRC service ran), and charybdis (which was closely forked into ircd-seven for use on freenode).
Creation of DroneBL
DroneBL was started to track botnets in 2003 as part of work he was doing on building an Intrusion Detection System platform. His idea was that every IDS could link together, and if an attack happened in one place, all the other IDS'es could know about it. It was then adapted for IRC usage later in 2004-2005, when Blitzed OPM was shut down.
Work on Hyperion
Pitcock began work on Hyperion in 2004 along with Jilles Tjoelker, as a fork of ircd-dancer used on freenode at the time. Pitcock left development on Hyperion in 2005 after a disagreement with lilo. He returned in 2007, but left again soon after policy disagreements.
Creation of Atheme IRC services
Atheme IRC services were created due to Pitcock's dissatisfaction with current IRC services at the time. Most of the initial Atheme code was written in late 2004 to early 2005 (with some code taken from shrike), with an initial release in April 2005. Freenode migrated to Atheme in 2008. He has continuously helped maintain the software since then.
Work on Audacious Media Player
Audacious Media Player started while George "nhjm" Averill and Pitcock discussed that BMP was being abandoned for BMPx (which in their opinion was suboptimal) in October 2005. He has continuously maintained this since then.
Creation of charybdis
Charybdis was created in September 2005 as a proposal for a new IRC daemon for freenode, based on Ratbox 2. After lilo vetoed his proposal to do this, Pitcock created atheme.org, a free software organisation as an entity separate from the PDPC.
In 2008, ircd-seven was branched from charybdis for use on freenode. Currently Pitcock works with Stephen Bennett to get features from ircd-seven merged back into charybdis.
Other projects
Pitcock is the founding member of atheme.org, a free software organisation that was intended to be separate from the PDPC, but has grown into an IRC standards organisation. He also created the first PSF2 player for Linux. In addition, he has created his own company, System in Place, a Virtual Private Server and Dedicated server company.

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