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Mike Long is a software consultant, currently based in Oslo, Norway.  His specialties include coaching and mentoring teams to adopt modern technical practices in hostile legacy environments.

He has over 10 years professional software engineering experience, working in a variety of cultures and business domains.  Mike considers software as a craft, and enjoys sharing the pursuit of technical excellence with fellow professionals.

Mike is active in the software community.  As founder and organizer for the Beijing Software Craftsmanship Meetup he has helped bring together passionate software craftsmen to share experience and skills.  He is also a regular speaker and workshop facilitator at international conferences in Europe and China, with focus areas on Cleaning Code, Testing Legacy C, Long Life Software, and C++ Toolchains in addition to organizing and facilitating workshops such as coding dojos and code retreats.

His previous experience working with embedded systems development in Norway and England have instilled a great passion for test driven development, code craft, and avoiding oscilloscope debugging as much as humanly possible.