Dave Farley, is an independent software developer and consultant, and founder and director of Continuous Delivery Ltd. He is a thought-leader in the field of continuous delivery, DevOps and software development in general. He is co-author of the Jolt-award winning book "Continuous Delivery," a regular conference speaker, blogger and one of the authors of the Reactive Manifesto.

Dave has been having fun with computers for over 30 years and has worked on most types of software. He started working in large scale distributed systems about 25 years ago, doing research into the development of loose-coupled, message-based systems - a forerunner of Microservice architectures. 

He has a wide range of experience leading the development of complex software in teams, both large and small, in the UK and USA. Dave was an early adopter of agile development techniques, employing iterative development, continuous integration and significant levels of automated testing on commercial projects from the early 1990s.