Aslak Hellesøy

Aslak Hellesøy is the Chief Scientist of BEKK Consulting in Oslo, Norway.

Aslak has worked with agile teams since 2003 and has contributed to over a dozen open source projects, lately mostly to RSpec, a popular Ruby framewowk for Behaviour Driven Development. In 2004 he was named one of the top 50 most influential Java programmers in the world by TheServerSide.com, probably for the work with PicoCointainer and XDoclet. Aslak first honed his agile skills while working for ThoughtWorks in the UK and US. He is an active member of the agile community in Norway and in 2007 he was one of the organisers of Norway’s first agile conference - http://smidig.no/smidig2007 with 300 participants.

Aslak is also a frequent speaker at other international conferences, and he has presented at Agile 2006, TheServerSide Symposium, SD West, RubyConf, RailsConf, QCon, BeJUG and several others.

He maintaines a more complete profile at LinkedIn