Ken Auer is the founder and master craftsman of RoleModel Software. He is the author of Extreme Programming Applied and a variety of early software patterns works. Ken learned Smalltalk and Objective-C in the mid-80s and was introduced as “the father of Software Craftsmanship” as the opening keynote speaker at the first Software Craftsmanship North America conference. Though he occasionally speaks in various venues, he is most at home in his custom designed facility outside of Holly Springs, NC (designed and built using Christopher Alexander’s architectural design patterns ). There he focuses on working with his agile, high- performance, multi-disciplinary team to turn others’ innovative ideas into well-crafted software and raising up generations of software craftsmen through the Software Craftsmanship Academy and RoleModel Software. You can occasionally find him on twitter (@kauerrolemodel), or read about his quest for an integrated life at http://kenauer.com.