Principal Architect and Head of TASC ( Technology, Architecture and Software Craft), 15+ years of industry experience (Microsoft/ThoughtWorks) and 7+ years in leadership roles.
Primarily focused on the transformation of socio-technical systems: impacting software systems, the enablement of teams and engineering best practices.
Experienced with high scale backend systems, legacy modernisation and infrastructure as code across multiple domains and tech stacks. Experienced working with distributed global teams (multi-tz).
Public speaker, creator of knowledge sharing/D&I communities and social change advocate.
Why do we keep making the same mistakes over and over? Why do we praise best practices like TDD, DDD and Team Topologies but don’t practice them consistently? Why do I find the same problematic architectural patterns in almost every company I have worked in?
This talk will discuss seven real life architectural sins, discuss how they come to manifest and the impact they have using real case scenarios drawn from many experiences I have had with such problems. I will draw out the common factors that underpinned these difficulties, describing not only how they presented in code, but also the causes that led to them. I will introduce Holistic Engineering, the practice of designing tech thinking of all the intrinsic parts of the organic system, embracing how people, management, organisational structure, budgets, company goals, production vision, security and even the political climate impact directly your code. This talk will help you better understand the boundaries of the organic system you are making technical decisions for and apply strategies to incorporate technical and non-technical factors to your decision process for your ever evolving organic system.
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