Tudor Gîrba (http://tudorgirba.com) obtained his PhD in 2005 from the University of Bern, and he acts as software environmentalist at feenk gmbh, a consulting and coaching company that he founded (http://feenk.com).
He leads the work on the Moose platform for software and data analysis (http://moosetechnology.org), he founded the Glamorous Toolkit project for rethinking the IDE (http://gtoolkit.org), and he is a board member of the Pharo live programming environment (http://pharo.org).
He advocates that software assessment must be recognized as a critical software engineering activity, and he authored the humane assessment method (http://humane-assessment.com) to help teams to rethink the way they manage large software systems and data sets.
Tudor also argues that storytelling should be prominent in software development (http://demodriven.com).
In 2014, he won the prestigious Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize (http://aito.org) for his work on modeling and visualization of evolution and interplay of large numbers of objects.