Independent agile software and web developer with 16 years experience, currently working on Java, Python and PHP projects on Windows, Linux. I've contributed to a couple of open source projects. Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration. Subversion, Trac, Eclipse. I'm a useful bloke to have around. Clients have included universities, thinktanks, independent consultancies and other small businesses. Much experience working on research projects with constantly changing requirements.
Agile methods have been my thing even before they were called that. I've spent most of my professional life working on international, cross-disciplinary European academic research projects, including the European Space Agency's Cluster satellite mission and the European Commission's PorGrow project. These research projects tend to have unclear and constantly evolving requirements and priorities: I've learnt to cope with that by writing tests as I go, delivering a working product in stages, and constan