Hello, I'm Shawn McCool.

I am a software engineer with more than 26 years of industry experience. I work at a payment processing company where my focus is maintaining and modernizing payment processing systems.

I was born and raised in the United States but am now a citizen of the Netherlands.

I have at various times focused on software development, systems administration, entrepreneurship, and providing training through organizing and operating conferences and workshops.

I am deeply dissatisfied with the status quo.

I believe software can be better. I believe that we should be delivering product value with shorter lead times. Feature development throughput doesn't need to degrade over time, crippling projects and businesses, as we are so used to seeing in this industry.

You might be interested in..

• A video course I produced about domain modeling and event sourcing.
• My criticism of the traditional data-centric approach to software design.
• An exploration of decoupling at feature boundaries in PHP frameworks.