Networks

Introduction

I'm CTO of Edutech Startup Knewton.

What languages/frameworks do you use (Java, .NET, PHP, Ruby, etc.)?

Java, Python, Ruby.

What topics might you be interested in?

Recruiting, Training and Retaining Technical Talent. New ways of solving old problems -- particularly effectively scaling without spot solutions.

Do you have any specific areas of expertise? Would you be willing to share it with the group?

Growing and managing software engineering teams from 0 to 80 people.

What is your favorite unit test framework and why?

JUnit. the original, still the best. Simple. Elegant. Test code with code. Not a fan of rspec and the other behavioral testing syntaxes. They're kind of the BizTalk server of unit testing frameworks.

What is your favorite version control system and why?

I know SVN/CVS the best. I'm new to GIT and see why it's totally awesome after my first pull request was merged.