Paul Hammant

Consulting Services

Paul Hammant DevOps LLC helps you get to Trunk Based Development
Selenium co-creator

Selenium 1's multi-language side is my contribution
Employment History

Where I've worked over 28 years
'Branch by Abstraction' inventor

My contribution to the field of computer science
Me on Twitter

Software related tweets (1,600 followers)
Trunk Based Development Advocate

I'm the flag carrier for this multi-decade practice
PicoContainer co-creator

The first 'constructor injection' DI container
My Blogging

Blog entries on software dev topics

Consulting Services

I visit companies who want to do software development more effectively, assess them, make a plan with them an help them execute it. Particularly to Trunk-Based Development, and all the safe and methodical steps to get there.

My consulting is detailed here: devops.paulhammant.com.
Selenium co-creator

Back in 2004 while at ThoughtWorks I made the original Selenium 1 with Jason Huggins and open sourced it. It is now a defacto standard (at version 3), and a multi-million dollar industry. Selenium has its own portal.

In 2014 I wrote ThoughtWorks’ “10-year old birthday congratulations for Selenium” [link].
Employment History

Mostly as a consultant, but always as a leader, I have worked at many blue chip employers and clients over the years in a variety software related roles. LinkedIn has the details.
'Branch by Abstraction' inventor

Branch by Abstraction rocks: See my blog postIntroducing Branch By Abstraction from 2007 (and related). Perhaps I did not invent it as such, but I was the first to document it.
Me on Twitter

Again, mostly on software technology topics (build-time and in production), I tweet. Not so much that you’d unfollow, hopefully just enough. I have 1,600 followers. Link.
Trunk Based Development Advocate

Google do it, and you should too. Learn more on the Trunk-Based Development portal that I put together with friends.
PicoContainer co-creator

I have been active in Apache’s Avalon Framework project from 2000, but in 2003 pivoted with Aslak Hellesøy (more famous for Cucumber these days) towards another take on “Inversion of Control” to use constructors for dependencies, and made PicoContainer (website) for the Java community to use. It is still used today in the industry leading IDEs that JetBrains make.

I am guilty of defining some numerical sub-types for IoC, before ThoughtWorks’ chief scientist, Martin Fowler, wrote his widely-read article renaming what I was talking about to Dependency Injection (DI)
My Blogging

I’ve blogged continually from 2002 onwards. Always on matters related to software development. I alternate between Build-time and run-time concerns. Most often, my style is pundit. I have quite often been early into technologies that would go on to move the industry, and in a few cases been one of the innovators.