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    <title>About &amp;mdash; Ian Cooper - Staccato Signals</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[About Me&#xA;&#xA;I am a polyglot coding architect with over 30 years of experience delivering solutions in government, healthcare, and finance and ecommerce. During that time I have worked for the DTI, Reuters, Sungard, Misys, Beazley, Huddle and Just Eat Takeaway delivering everything from bespoke enterprise solutions, &#39;shrink-wrapped&#39; products for thousands of customers, to SaaS applications for hundreds of thousands of customers. &#xA;&#xA;I am an experienced systems architect with a strong knowledge of OO, TDD/BDD, DDD, EDA, CQRS/ES, REST, Messaging, Design Patterns, Architectural Styles, ATAM, and Agile Engineering Practices&#xA;&#xA;I am frequent contributor to OSS, and I am the owner of: BrighterCommand. I speak regularly at user groups and conferences around the world on architecture and software craftsmanship. I run public workshops teaching messaging, event-driven and reactive architectures.&#xA;&#xA;I have a strong background in C#. I spent years in the C++ trenches. I dabble in Go, Java, JavaScript and Python.&#xA;&#xA;LinkedIn&#xA;My Tech Talks&#xA;Activity Pub for this blog: @ian-cooper@write.as]]&gt;</description>
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<p>I am a polyglot coding architect with over 30 years of experience delivering solutions in government, healthcare, and finance and ecommerce. During that time I have worked for the DTI, Reuters, Sungard, Misys, Beazley, Huddle and Just Eat Takeaway delivering everything from bespoke enterprise solutions, &#39;shrink-wrapped&#39; products for thousands of customers, to SaaS applications for hundreds of thousands of customers.</p>

<p>I am an experienced systems architect with a strong knowledge of OO, TDD/BDD, DDD, EDA, CQRS/ES, REST, Messaging, Design Patterns, Architectural Styles, ATAM, and Agile Engineering Practices</p>

<p>I am frequent contributor to OSS, and I am the owner of: <a href="https://github.com/BrighterCommand">BrighterCommand</a>. I speak regularly at user groups and conferences around the world on architecture and software craftsmanship. I run public workshops teaching messaging, event-driven and reactive architectures.</p>

<p>I have a strong background in C#. I spent years in the C++ trenches. I dabble in Go, Java, JavaScript and Python.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-cooper-2b059b/">LinkedIn</a>
<a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZgLq02FHsbcScJaUjITEHS0Y0dmglavP&amp;si=3qilcSokZzScicMp">My Tech Talks</a>
Activity Pub for this blog: <a href="/@/ian-cooper@write.as" class="u-url mention">@<span>ian-cooper@write.as</span></a></p>
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