Simon Brown lives in Jersey (Channel Islands) and works as an independent consultant, specializing in software architecture, technical leadership and the balance with agility. Simon regularly speaks at international software development conferences and provides consulting/training to software teams at organizations across Europe, ranging from small startups through to global blue chip companies. He is the founder of (http://www.codingthearchitecture. com) Coding the Architecture (a website about pragmatic, hands-on software architecture) and the author of (http:// leanpub.com/software-architecture-for-developers) Software Architecture for Developers (an e-book that is being published incrementally through Leanpub). He still writes code too.