My real name is Tarl Neustaedter (sometimes Neustädter), I changed my user name to something slightly less obvious when I noticed google searches of my name were showing my wikipedia edits. Nothing confidential about them, I just don't want my Wikipedia edits to be the starting point in conversations with someone who has googled me (like a potential employer).
I consider myself a WP:WikiGnome, tending towards the roles of WP:WikiDwarf and WP:WikiWizard, with an attitude that is primarily janitorial. As in "cleanup on aisle 7". It's remarkable just how much crud gets dumped on the pages of this encyclopædia.