Dion Almaer is the Vice President of Engineering at WalmartLabs Mobile of Walmart.com. Prior to this, he worked as the director of developer tools at Mozilla, director of developer relations for webOS at Hewlett-Packard and Palm, open web advocate at Google, CTO of Seeking Alpha, team member at Adagio, editor in chief at TheServerSide.com, and technical director at MedServe. Almaer is the founder of Set Direction and co-founder of Ajaxian Inc.Almaer is a technologist who is involved in coding and building of programs, writing articles, and blogging. Pragmatic Ajax is a book co-authored by him.Dion Almaer studied at University of Minnesota.