Welcome to Our Online Home
Who We Are…
We are C. Michael (Mike), Amy Lyn, Gavin Michael, and Aidan Joseph Pilato. We hail from Harrisburg, North Carolina, a small but rapidly growing community just outside of Charlotte.
Mike is into computer-ish things. He works for the Bay-area company CollabNet, where he leads the Version Control team. Mike is one of the primary developers of Subversion (an open-source version control tool), the core maintainer of ViewVC (a web-based version control repository browser), and co-author of Version Control with Subversion (2004, O'Reilly Media). Mike enjoys writing and recording music, graphic and website design, video editing, photography, and countless other activities for which he, in all honesty, really doesn't have time.
Amy is a full-time wife and mother. She spends her days taking care of Gavin and Aidan. In her free time, she enjoys reading, playing board games, stamping/scrapbooking, and checking her Weather Watcher taskbar icon every ten minutes or so. And sometimes, when Mike is fortunate enough, Amy lends her incredible vocal talents to his musical dabblings.
Gavin is our firstborn, now four years of age. He loves singing, planes/trains/automobiles, and imitating life with very loud noises. His imagination must be a wonderful place to hang out, because he spends quite a bit of time there. During his occasional visits to the real world, Gavin has been learning (successfully) to read this mess of a language we call "English".
Rounding out the team is our newest member, Aidan. Where Gavin lives in mental space, Aidan is all about the physical. Aidan is fixated on the study of gravity as it applies to, well, basically everything he can put his hands on (and then release them from, at whatever height his little frame can afford). Nothing holds his attention like a basketball goal, even if no one is using the goal. We're fortunate that his aim is as good as his arm—in fact, that's probably the only reason our windows remain unbroken.
The Pilatos are active members of Plaza Baptist Church, where Mike and Amy serve in musical and technical capacities, on various committee and ministry positions, and (as of recently) as Youth Sunday School teachers.
That's us. And that's who this little website is about. Bored yet? Try some Web Sudoko.