After gaining his PhD in Computer Science, Stuart Blair worked as an associate lecturer at Glasgow University before a mixture of curiosity and poverty drew him into the world of software development for a tier 1 investment bank. For the last 5 years he’s worked in teams delivering Equity derivatives risk calculation systems, reference data feeds, grid computing projects and web-based CDO portfolio management systems. He now coaches an XP team which happily spends their time working with the business to beat the competition through better software.