Andrew Stellman, despite being raised a New Yorker, has lived in Pittsburgh twice. The first time was when he graduated from Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science, and then again when he and his O'Reilly coauthor, Jenny, were starting their consulting business and writing their first book together.

When he moved back to his hometown, his first job after college was as a programmer at EMI-Capitol Records--which actually made sense, since he went to LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and the Performing Arts to study cello and jazz bass guitar. He and Jenny first worked together at that same financial software company, where he was managing a team of programmers. He's since managed various teams of software engineers, requirements analysts, and led process improvement efforts.

Andrew keeps himself busy building software, giving talks and writing articles, playing music (but video games even more), studying taiji and aikido, and trying not to work too hard.

For more information about Andrew, Jennifer Greene, and their books, visit Building Better Software.