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Bio: Michel Grootjans has been programming since the age of 12. He has programmed strange machines like the TI 99-4A, the Atari 2600, Mac128, HP28, Apple II, Siemens PLC's using languages like Basic, Pascal, C, HyperTalk, Assembler, … along the way.

His professional experiences includes building enterprise applications for government, chemical plants, telecom, HR, insurance companies, … in java, C# and ruby.

He's an independent technical agile coach. He coaches agile teams on continuous improvement, trying to find the most productive principles and practices to deliver value for the customer as fast as possible, while aiming for a product that is both flexible and maintainable.

Presentation Bio
several internal presentations, including

• continuous integration in .net (in 2004, long before TFS)
• the importance of readability in code
• refactoring to patterns with ReSharper
• several coding dojos in C#, Ruby and javascript
• getting started with NHibernate
• pragmatic project setup ⇒ how to privately setup source control and CI in 15 minutes

Gives a three-day training about principles, patterns and practices, including the GoF patterns and the SOLID guidelines

XP days benelux 2009 and mini XP days 2010

• agile acceptance testing with FitNesse

Agile .net Europe 2011

• timesaving tools for .net developers
• the importance of readability in code

ACCU 2012

• the importance of readability in code

Arrrrcamp 2012

• lightning talk on ook!

Email:michel.grootjans@gmail.com

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