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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, etc along the way.

His professional experiences includes building enterprise applications for government, chemical plants, telecom, HR, insurance companies, etc 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
Recent presentations include:

• Agile tour Brussels 2014: The importance of readability in code
• XP days benelux 2013: Rails for n00bs
• Arrrrcamp 2013: lightning talk on ook!
• ACCU 2013: TDD Rails from the outside-in
• ACCU 2012: the importance of readability in code
• Agile .net Europe 2011 - timesaving tools for .net developers
• Agile .net Europe 2011 - the importance of readability in code
• XP days benelux 2009 + mini XP days: agile acceptance testing with FitNesse

Other presentations, include:

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

Homepage:
Location: Belgium

Email: michel.grootjans@gmail.com

Seven Languages in 90 minutes
Workshop ElasticSearch
Concurrent Algorithms