Andrea is a professional software developer and has accrued many years of experience building solid applications. Looking for ways to improve code she came across Rails and the Castle stack, which includes Monorail.

Like many developers, Borland Delphi played a major part of her early career. After developing small applications, Andrea moved on to build a travel-related product written in Delphi and VB. That set her in good stead to spend time developing Customer Relationship Managment(CRM) products. First in a company using a mix of Delphi and .Net, where she learned about the Castle Stack and NHibernate.Then she moved on to another CRM product where she was using GWT ( Java) . At the moment she works using the .net stack and many OSS frmeworks.

Andrea liked the Castle stack so much that she co-developed an eCommerce solution using Monorail in her spare time. She has been using Castle projects for over two years on a variety of projects, gathering experience and knowledge as she goes: experience and knowledge that she would like to share!

Castle is a series of Open Source projects that work on top of the .Net Platform. They can work together or separately. Some of the projects from Castle are: Monorail (MVC), Winsdor (IoC), ActiveRecord
(an implementation of the Active Record pattern that sits on top of NHibernate) and many others. Castle has huge community support and It helps you write better code.

Andrea is heavily involved in the organisation of Alt Net in Dublin.  She is also involved in Ruby Ireland as she has a growing interest in Ruby.She is a keen musician and music enthusiast.

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Thanks to Craig, Martha, Colin and Andrew for all the help make sense of this bio.