I nominate Andy Lester, author of ack "a grep replacement" and
itinerant speaker on "Technical Debt" and employment in the tech
world.  He's a Perl guru working in the publishing indsutry.  Andy's
"Technical Debt" lecture would be a good fit, IMO, for the code4lib
group.

Technical Debt Talk:
http://www.media-landscape.com/yapc/2006-06-26.AndyLester/
Employment Stuff:
http://theworkinggeek.com/

He spoke at OSCON year on a couple of topics:
http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/speaker/6552

find him at twitter at: http://twitter.com/PetDance

Cheers,
-Chad