PANOS MATSINOPOULOS

I love software engineering. I am passionate about my job. I find it the most creative job that one could have. After a long software engineering life that started with C/C++, then went to Java and then to .NET Visual Basic/ C#, the last 6.5 years, I have been developing web applications using Ruby on Rails and Django. But this does not mean that I am all Ruby and Python and nothing else. I shouldn't forget my JavaScript skills or my other backend skills like database design, SQL and NoSQL. Nevertheless, while I am putting my hands onto many technical tasks, every day, I am also managing my team with trust, simplicity, honesty, authenticity, learning and empowerment. I am always willing to take new challenges on big projects. My biggest reward is not the money that I get, but the software that I create when it makes their users happy to use it. “Test is my friend” and “Customer has always something useful to say when making a comment about my software.” It is my task to turn it into something valuable that will render my final work even better. “The enemy of good is the better one.” Nevertheless, I never go without planning and I like working on specific non-moving targets. Focus, Focus and Focus. Agile estimating and planning (by Mike Cohn) is one of my best books on that and I come back to read it again and again. And nothing is finished if not tested and if not customers says done.