me

Hi.
I'm Jon Jagger.
  • I'm head of software at Merkely. I specialize in practice, process, test driven development, and complex-adaptive systems-thinking.
  • I'm 35 years old (hex) and I've loved software since I was 10 (decimal).
  • I'm married to the beautiful Natalie, and proud father of Ellie, Penny and Patrick.
  • I built https://cyber-dojo.org to promote deliberate practice for software developers.
  • I was a self-employed consultant for 20 years. I've worked with Accenture, Aviva, Cisco, Ericsson, Friends Provident, HP, Microsoft, Opera, Ordnance Survey, RBS, Reuters, Renault F1, Schlumberger, Tandberg and many many more.
  • I'm the co-author (with Olve Maudal) of the Deep C/C++ slide deck (over 1,000,000 views)
  • I'm the ex ECMA Task Group 2 C# convenor.
  • I've had some C# books published.
  • I'm the ex ACCU conference chairman.
  • I love coarse fishing and salmon fishing.
  • I live in Somerset, England.
  • On twitter I'm @JonJagger