Michelle D'Souza is a software developer with over ten years of professional experience developing web applications and software development tools. Throughout her career, she has had a deep interest in collaborative software development and has been integral in mentoring and integrating new team members. Michelle is constantly improving the software development process and has refined and implemented several mentoring strategies to ensure team excellence and best practices. This includes working with the team to share knowledge and experience about programming techniques including design patterns, web development, software testing, and agile development.
In the last three years, Michelle has been experimenting with merging agile development and open source techniques to refine and individualize the development process based on the unique project requirements and team culture of the Fluid project.