Tim Bunce has been a perl5-porter since 1994, contributing to the development of the Perl language and many of its core modules. He is the author and maintainer of the Perl DBI module.

He is the founder and CTO of Data-Plan Services, a perl, database and performance consultancy with an international client base. He is co-author, along with Alligator Descartes, of Programming the Perl DBI, the definitive book on DBI, published by O'Reilly Media.