Contributors

Sebastian Meine, PhD

Sebastian is a principal trainer and consultant with sqlity.net llc (http://sqlity.net) and CTO for TSTS Inc, a company that provides an online personalized training and workout solution (http://www.tanyastroh.com). He specializes in T-SQL Test Driven Development (TDD) and performance and shares his passion and knowledge regularly with audiences world-wide through his writings and speaking engagements.

After receiving his PhD in Computer Science, Sebastian moved to the United States to begin his career as a software developer for a global Fortune 50 company. He quickly rose to the role of software architect, functioning as a SQL performance and TDD expert, assuming responsibility for the code quality and performance of dozens of large-scale database installations nationwide.

Dennis Lloyd

Dennis is a software development coach at Curiously Correct, where he is currently promoting the Test Driven Databases Initiative. He has broad experience in the software development life-cycle with specialized focus on Agile practices and database technologies. He has successfully assisted development groups through learning key practices including test driven development, continuous integration and deployment, iteration planning, retrospectives, pair programming and collective code ownership. His goal is to help development teams deliver value to their customers by focusing on improving quality and development work-flow. Dennis holds a BS in Information Technology from Rochester Institute of Technology and an MS of Software Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. When he is not coaching or developing software, Dennis can be found at a milonga, an Argentine Tango dance party. He recently spent six months on sabbatical in Buenos Aires indulging in this passion. He has observed that some of the techniques used to teach tango can be applied to teaching software development.