Amitai Schleier

Consult, coach, and train, centering on your code in your team space. To improve delivery, we learn best by doing: together, in context.

Member of pkgsrc steering committee and project sysadmin since 2005. Led porting of pkgsrc to Mac OS X. Implemented project wiki backed by CVS and Kerberos.

Rehabilitated feedback loops. Paired and mobbed to deliver valuable software. Designed and ran experiential-learning workshops that created excitement and demand. Helped several people improve their lives. Fortune 100 clients.

Promoted interactive online participation by members and alumni of Columbia’s oldest literary society, under tight constraints, by integrating an unusual CMS.

Oversaw resources, funding, and direction for a major Open Source Unix-like operating system.

Designed and implemented tools to manage application security contexts. Converted teammates and code to Test-Driven Development, resulting in markedly increased velocity. Converted projects to Scrum, yielding dramatic and adaptive improvements to planning and delivery. Earned rare trust of operations team. Delivered high-risk eight-month project on deadline. Presented a series of original talks on Agile topics. Coached other managers and developers in their Scrum adoptions.

Introduced TDD. Harmonized development and operations teams. Improved internal documentation. Selected tools for mining client data.

Grew Premium Support from pilot project to highly regarded team, then instigated its spinoff as the profit center of an independent corporation.

Built tools to customize flagship EMR product. Learned several Extreme Programming practices. Established internal wiki. Administered code repository.

Focus on music composition. Several courses in Linguistics.