Tony Strauss

Tony started programming with Logo in elementary school, and he has been hooked ever since (although, due to spiritual confusion and angst in college, he actually majored in Applied Mathematics). After graduating college, Tony was very fortunate both to be hired by Bloomberg LP, the world's preeminent financial information services company, and placed within its Ticker Plant group, which provides Bloomberg's proprietary, real-time, market data engine (data storage, processing, and distribution). Tony architected and executed many projects while in Bloomberg's Ticker Plant and gained extensive knowledge of systems programming, parallel computing, networked systems, object oriented programming, systems architecture, development environments, mission critical software, market data feeds, and scalability. In addition, motivated by a desire to see the birth place of the Transformers, Tony co-founded the Ticker Plant's team in Japan and became its first team leader, overseeing and setting the technical direction for several programmers also working in Japan as well as hiring new programmers locally. As the Ticker Plant is a poster child for "continuously available, mission critical" systems, Tony also handled on call duties for the system, becoming proficient in performing root cause analysis, crafting workarounds, solving problems, and escalating serious issues, all under severe time pressures.

Tony co-founded Designing Patterns after leaving Bloomberg and is very motivated to make the company one that both exceeds its customers' wildest expectations and that provides an environment where fellow programming addicts can thrive happily.

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Janet Leland

Janet got her Bachelors in Computer Science from Cornell University. After graduating, she worked for five years in Bloomberg LP's Ticker Plant group. Here she worked on a highly available and performance critical large scale software system, for which she developed and helped maintain existing software, as well as troubleshot issues of all priorities. Her work included incremental development, systems programming, concurrent programming, making scalable software, performance measurement and profiling, and automated unit testing. As the system was a market data engine and the volume of data was ever growing, performance was critical. Her work often involved ensuring existing and new software was capable of scaling. She relocated to Japan to be a part of the initial Ticker Plant Tokyo group, where she continued to develop for the Ticker Plant market data engine, while handing operational and software trouble shooting responsibilities for the group at large.

Janet co-founded Designing Patterns after leaving Bloomberg and is excited by the new opportunities to develop great software.