Who (the heck) Am I?

I'm Tim Ottinger.

You may already know me.

I'm a long-time developer, agilist, XPer, CI/CD, teaming/ensemble, TDD, and general software delivery specialist.

I wrote the second chapter of Clean Code.  I am the originator and co-author of Agile in a Flash with Jeff Langr, and I wrote Use VIM Like a Pro.

I'm mentioned in the "acknowledgements" sections of many other books on Code Craft, Agility, Design Patterns, because I’ve been heavily involved in the tech community and have done reviews and edits of their pre-publication materials.

I worked with "Uncle Bob" Martin at Object Mentor (twice). With his company, I taught physicists at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center how to improve software design for high-energy physics. I worked with companies like Caterpillar, Xerox, and many others.

I worked with Ian Murdoch (who founded the Debian Project) in his company, Progeny Linux Systems. We created software to aid in the creation of custom commercial Linux distributions.

I built industrial balancing machines with ITW.

I have worked with Industrial Logic (Joshua Kerievsky's company) in the USA for the past 14 years. We helped companies create their flagship product. We worked with companies in oncology, heavy manufacturing, agriculture, insurance, respiratory health, and others. I’ve designed and delivered training courses. I’ve helped transform legacy code. I’ve coached software development executives.

I'm known as "the agile otter" (a play on my connections with XP and agile practices, and a play on my last name).

I have taught modern software practices and code craft to thousands of people around the world, including the USA, Canada, India, China, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Norway, Australia, and other countries. I enjoy international travel and love serving software organizations, whether large or small. 

I'm particularly well known for code craft, TDD, CI, CD, and refactoring.

In recent years, I've worked to bring Lean flow to organizations, helping them to reduce unpredictability, delay, and frustrations of typical delivery processes. This has been rewarding and fascinating, and will continue to make a big difference for the companies I’ve served..

I'm living in Scotland. I speak one human language and many programming languages.