Grigori Melnik

Dr. Grigori Melnik is a Director of Product Management at Splunk focusing on the Splunk Developer Platform (http://dev.splunk.com). He helps software engineers embrace good practices and fosters software craftsmanship.

Formerly at Microsoft, he produced patterns & practices components as well as architectural guidance to address common cross-cutting software engineering concerns. He also drove the Design for IT Efficiency imperative. Prior to that, he was a researcher and developer -- long enough ago to remember the joy of programming in Fortran.

He is an Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Software magazine and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Calgary, Canada. He speaks around the world on the topics of operational and business intelligence, code reuse, cloud computing, agile methods, and software testing. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Calgary.

Contact him at http://twitter.com/gmelnik