Julian Simpson is The Build Doctor. He started his career formatting 5.25 inch hard disks in IBM AT PC’s. That was quite some time ago. Since then he has been a:
- Marketing student
- Proprietor of a business connecting people’s computers to the Internet
- Very grumpy helpdesk operator
- Unix Systems Administrator
- Build and release consultant at ThoughtWorks and other companies
- Systems administrator, Puppet coder and deleter of fraudulent accounts at a startup
Presently he is Principal Consultant at The Build Doctor Limited, the consultancy named after this very blog! Julian’s desire is to help everyone get their code into production as soon as they can. Software is better when it works for us, not when we lose it in the cracks between our development and operations teams.
Headline Skills
- Continuous Integration
- Build, and release engineering for Java, Ruby and .NET
- Agile engineering practices
- DevOps – reconciling Development and Operations practices and teams
- UNIX and Linux Systems Administration
Articles and publications:
- Large Build Teams: help or hindrance?[PDF] Experience report from the Agile 2007 Conference
- Refactoring Ant – essay in the ThoughtWorks Anthology
- Deployment is The Goal – article for InfoQ
- You Could Totally Use A Dependency Manager – CM Crossroads
Professional Memberships:
- Member of the British Computer Society
- Institute of Directors
- FLOSS UK
Conferences and Talks:
- Has attended every Citcon Europe, and DevopsDays Europe, ever
- Organises the London Continuous Integration meetup
- Agile 2007 – presented experience report above, and co-ran a workshop on Continuos Integration
- XP Days 2007 – presented experience report
- UKUUG Spring conference 2007 – Agile Systems Administration
- QCon London 2009 – Continuous Integration from the Trenches
- LRUG October 2009 – Drunken Build Monkey
- QCon London 2010 – Silos are for Farmers
- UKUUG Spring Conference 2010 – Hudson hit my Puppet with a Cucumber
- Agile Comes To You keynote, 2011
- BCS CMSG Conference – Silos are for Farmers
- Agile 2011 – Continuous Integration – the Minimum Viable Product
- Agile 2011 – Continuous Integration For the World
Contact
If you’d like to discuss anything with Julian, please get in touch!
- Phone: (+44) 0207 183 0323
- Email: julian@build-doctor.com
- Twitter: @builddoctor
