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Beyond anything else, I value people using the products I build. I like the feedback, I don't like breaking things. I like improving the user experience. I _want_ people to enjoy the product.I also value a good understanding of how a business works. Who uses the product? Why is it important to them? Why are we changing it? How does the business stay in business?I also place a great deal of importance on good clean code. This means a lot of things: clean code is small and elegant; clean code has tests that clearly and reliably demonstrate what the code does; clean code is _simple_; clean code is easy to understand, and code that is easy to understand is easy to change.There are of course, lots of other things I place importance on: I always fix bugs in upstream open source projects, I always automate tasks, I deploy fully tested code to production several times a day, I fix the broken architecture, I talk to people at all levels to make it happen, I make sure I understand - and that I'm understood, I show progress.I share all of these values with the people at Featurist. That's why Josh, Adrian and I started Featurist, because we all shared the same values. Teams who share the same values, especially these ones, are very very productive.

Listed skills include Agile Methodologies, Test Driven Development, Design Patterns, .Net, and 19 others.

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  The University Of Western Australia

  Computer Science