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Michael G. "Schwern" Schwern is a prominent member of the Perl community and presenter at Open Source conferences. Schwern is the author of Perl's Test::More framework, which has been credited with greatly increasing the prevalence of tests being written in Perl.

Schwern's other notable contributions to Perl include fixing the year 2038 problem in Perl, maintaining the ExtUtils::MakerMaker build framework, and the creation of perl5i, a module to bring many modern language features into the language.

Schwern was responsible for the creation of the Perl 5 wiki.

In addition to his programming work, Schwern is also a frequent and prominent speaker at many open source conferences.

Schwern is based in Portland, Oregon, United States.