Corey Haines, Software Journeyman

Corey Haines has spent much of his 13+-year professional career in the Microsoft ecosystem, until moving out of the corporate world and joining a small startup doing Ruby on Rails. After leaving the startup in 2008, he began a year-long journey, traveling the midwest and east coast on a pair-programming tour, spending anywhere from a day to a week at different places, pairing with people in exchange for room and board. While on the road, he has also focused on expanding and defining the message of the Software Craftsmanship movement, as it pertains to both professionalism and career development.

Corey has been actively engaged in practicing the Extreme Programming techniques for nearly 6 years. He has been actively following the Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) techniques since the first rumblings of it in 2005. Lately, he has been actively mentoring others in the BDD workflow, as it pertains to day-to-day engineering practices, such as TDD and executable acceptance criteria.

Nowadays, Corey is focused on collecting ideas for establishing a craftsmanship-based school of software development in the next 3-5 years.