Paul Hammant's info & links, in lieu of a business card

I am that widely-cited Trunk-Based Development and Monorepo expert, who co-created Selenium v1 in 2004, develops software generally for 31 years (including many new open-source tools), fills exec management roles, consults at and assesses corporates towards dialing up their software release cadence.

I recently co-founded a "new-bank" startup in Brazil, cutting the first code, staffing it up, and seeing it go-live and start to scale (with pivots) in a matter of months. As part of that, align all hires to a high-throughput way of working.

I also blog about architecture/design, agile, lean/TOC & flow, testing/testability, dependency injection, CI/CD, DevOps, team throughput, application strangulation, pseudo-declarative UI technologies, cookie-cutter scaling, merkle-trees, source-control generally, and more.

I'm ex of ThoughtWorks (12 years). And via them, Google's Test Mercenaries team.

Professional Links

• My book: Trunk-Based Development and Branch by Abstraction
• Linked In: linkedin.com/in/paulhammant - where I've worked, etc
• Twitter: twitter.com/paul_hammant
• Blog: paulhammant.com - 400+ posts over 18 years
• GitHub: github.com/paul-hammant - 200+ original repos
• Home page: hammant.org - a pictorial jumping board to notable things (needs updating).
• My Trunk Based Development site: TrunkBasedDevelopment.com (a serious info-portal, with 95K views a month)
• My related "Branch by Abstraction" site: BranchByAbstraction.com (some "artistic license" & more fun than the TBD site above)
• My Continuous Delivery & DevOps consulting: devops.paulhammant.com
• Founder of the open source Servirtium technology (a service virtualization standard)
• Co-founder of DigiCash Technology Venture, and the Brazil-based bank that resulted from that! Me on Crunchbase re that
• Before Selenium, I co-created "PicoContainer" which competed with SpringFramework for about 5 minutes and could have been commercialized if Cucumber's Aslak Hellosøy and I had quit ThoughtWorks to pursue that. Martin Fowler mentioned it in the article that he coined Dependency injection in

Pandemic

• I bought a sewing machine in Feb 2020, and made masks for donation to local non-profits. This mask is best performing one I made. A year too late to have helped the pandemic during the shortage of N95s and alike. Thanks to an anonymous benefactor and a university in Thailand for the considerable testing effort.

Personal

I am based in Edinburgh, UK. I lived and worked in the US for 14 years. I consult over video conferencing or fly to clients (when lockdown ends). Email me to talk: paul@hammant.org