Andrew Stellman, despite being raised a New Yorker, has lived in Pittsburgh twice. The first time was when he graduated from Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science, and then again when he and Jenny were starting their consulting business and writing their first book for O’Reilly.

When he moved back to his hometown, his first job after college was as a programmer at EMI-Capitol Records—which actually made sense, since he went to LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and the Performing Arts to study cello and jazz bass guitar. He and Jenny first worked together at that same financial software company, where he was managing a team of programmers. He’s had the privilege of working with some pretty amazing programmers over the years, and likes to think that he’s learned a few things from them.

When he’s not writing books, Andrew keeps himself busy writing useless (but fun) software, playing music (but video games even more), experimenting with circuits that make odd noises, studying taiji and aikido, having a girlfriend named Lisa, and owning a pomeranian.

Jenny and Andrew have been building software and writing about software engineering together since they first met in 1998. Their first book, Applied Software Project Management, was published by O’Reilly in 2005. They published their second book in the Head First series, Head First C#, in 2009.

They founded Stellman & Greene Consulting in 2003 to build a really neat software project for scientists studying herbicide exposure in Vietnam vets. When they’re not building software or writing books, they do a lot of speaking at conferences and meetings of software engineers, architects, and project managers.

Check out their blog, Building Better Software, at: http://www.stellman-greene.com.

Jennifer Greene studied philosophy in college but figured out pretty soon afterward that she really loved building software. Luckily, she’s a great software engineer, so she started out working at an online service, and that’s the first time she really got a sense of what good software development looked like.

She moved to New York in 1998 to work on software quality at a financial software company. She’s managed a teams of developers, testers, and PMs on software projects in media and finance since then.

She’s traveled all over the world to work with different software teams and build all kinds of cool projects.

She loves traveling, watching Bollywood movies, reading the occasional comic book, playing PS4 games, and hanging out with her huge Siberian cat, Sascha.