Who are we?
Antony Marcano
Antony is a software craftsman skilled in developing software, coaching and software testing. He has over fifteen years multi-sector experience with numerous clients, including the BBC, Nokia, Vodafone, Barclays Bank, BT, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Kingfisher Group.
His background in Agile Software Development started in 2000 with an Extreme Programming project. Since then Antony has worked on numerous agile projects, whilst continuously developing his craft, writing code in Ruby, Java, C#, Perl and more. Antony has diverse skills with an emphasis on increasing throughput with quality.
Having a passion for sharing with the software-craftsmanship community, Antony created and continues to maintain the popular website testingReflections.com.
In March 2009, he co-founded pairwith.us with Andy Palmer. This successful partnership led to the formation of RiverGlide in June 2009, to make their unique flavour of energy and motivation available to companies that share in their values (transparency, integrity, trust) and benefit from their ability to continuously innovate and deliver.
Antony is referenced in several agile books. Further to this, Antony writes for Better Software Magazine and is a regular guest-lecturer on Behaviour Driven Development, Test Driven Development and Acceptance Test Driven Development at Oxford University.
As an Agile coach; Antony has substantial experience in helping teams benefit from better testing and write cleaner, well crafted, easy to read and maintain code.
You can follow what Antony has to say on his blog and on Twitter.
Andy Palmer
Andy is a software craftsman skilled in developing software, coaching and testing. With over 10 years experience across multiple sectors, including telecommunications, investment banking, retail and media. Andy was inspired by the Agile Manifesto in 2002, and since then has applied agile principles and practices wherever applicable. Andy was previously a senior consultant with ThoughtWorks and has several years experience working with high-availability systems for the mobile telecommunications industry.
In March 2009, he co-founded Pair With Us with Antony Marcano. This successful partnership led to the formation of RiverGlide in June 2009, to make their unique flavour of energy and motivation available to companies that share in their values (transparency, integrity, trust) and benefit from their ability to continuously innovate and deliver.
As a passionate programmer; Andy is continuously developing his craft, writing code in Ruby, Java, .Net, Perl and more.
As an Agile coach; Andy has substantial experience in helping teams benefit from better testing and write cleaner, well crafted, easy to read and maintain code.
You can follow Andy on Twitter.