Personal Details

First Name

Aslak

Last Name

Hellesøy

Employer

BEKK Consulting

Years Experience in Agile

6

Short Bio

Aslak Hellesøy is the Chief Scientist of BEKK Consulting in Oslo, Norway.

Aslak has worked with agile teams since 2003 and has contributed to over a dozen open source projects, lately mostly to Cucumber (http://cukes.info), a popular Ruby framework for Behaviour Driven Development. In 2004 he was named one of the top 50 most influential Java programmers in the world by TheServerSide.com, probably for the work with PicoCointainer and XDoclet. Aslak first honed his agile skills while working for ThoughtWorks in the UK and US. He is an active member of the agile community in Norway and in 2007 and 2008 he was one of the organisers of Norway’s first agile conference - http://smidig.no/smidig2007 with 300 participants.

History

Member for

3 years 6 weeks