Andy Singleton (Author)

Andy Singleton is the founder of Assembla, where he leads an Agile software development team that crosses 15 countries. He has built more than 20 software and information products. He founded PowerSteering Software, a company providing project portfolio management software and Cambridge Interactive, an eBusiness developer. He has a BA in Applied Mathematics from Harvard.

Jon Friedman (Editor)

Jon Friedman provides product marketing and collateral development services to software and IT services companies, particularly in the Agile software development and IT security fields. He is on the board of directors of Agile New England, has worked with Andy Singleton at Assembla for three years, and was a marketing executive at Fiberlink, Astaro, Wang Software and Unisys.

Michael Chletsos (Contributor)

Michael Chletsos has been the CTO, VP of Engineering and Lead Developer at Assembla, where he helped the company accelerate from two releases a month to several per day. Prior to that he was a system administrator at Black Mesa Capital and an information technology supervisor for the State of New Mexico, among other technical roles.

Tyler Jewell (Contributor)

Tyler Jewell is CEO of Codenvy and a partner with Toba Capital managing investments in middleware and application development. He sits on the board of WSO2, Sauce Labs, and eXo Platform. He has investments in ZeroTurnaround, InfoQ, and AppHarbor and is an advisor for SD Elements, shiftMobility, and SourceGraph. He is the author of three books on Java, including O'Reilly's Java Web Services.

Stephane Kasriel (Contributor)

Stephane Kasriel is Vice President of Product and Engineering at oDesk. He has more than 12 years of high-tech product and general management experience, including leadership roles at pioneering companies such as Fireclick, Zong, Work4Labs, and PayPal. Defining and leading PayPal's consumer strategy, Kasriel achieved unprecedented growth for the company. Stephane holds a Master's from Stanford in Computer Science and an MBA from INSEAD.

Luca Milanesio (Contributor)

Luca Milanesio is the Director and cofounder of GerritForge, the leading Git and Gerrit competence center for the enterprise. Luca has over 20 years of experience in software development. He has facilitated the introduction of enterprise Code Review workflow in large enterprises worldwide, including major telecoms and banks. Luca is the author ofLearning Gerrit Code Review and Git Patterns and Anti-Patterns.

Damon Poole (Contributor)

Damon Poole is a methodology and process improvement expert. He is Chief Agilist at Eliassen Group. Previously he founded AccuRev, a leading provider of Software Development tools, and consulted for Ford, Polycom, Xerox, Orbitz, Texas Instruments, Verizon Wireless and other industry leaders. Damon speaks at many major Agile and software industry conferences, writes frequently on Agile development, and is the author of Do It Yourself Agile.

Elias Torres (Contributor)

Elias Torres is the VP of Engineering at HubSpot, where is he focused on building the best engineering organization in Boston. Elias joined HubSpot after they acquired Performable in June 2011, where he was the CTO and co-founder. His team at HubSpot builds a distributed, cloud-based software platform for marketers that powers HubSpot's ambition to become the #1 marketing company in the world.

Ajit Zadgaonkar (Contributor)

Ajit Zadgaonkar, Senior Director of Software Engineering, Edmunds.com. He has built a career of helping organizations transition from inefficient processes to systems that align business and technical requirements. His experience includes development, software testing and quality engineering and devOps roles. At present, besides software development and testing, Ajit leads Continuous Delivery and Cloud initiatives at Edmunds.com.