David Starr is a principal craftsman with Guild 3 Software specializing in agile software development practices, patterns and practices of .NET development, and judicious application of various Microsoft technologies.

He is a Microsoft MVP in Visual Studio Team System and an instructor with Pluralsight where he leads the agile development and Team System curriculums. David is the founder of the community blogging site ElegantCode.com and host of the PluralCast podcast.

David is a frequent contributor at conferences, an active blogger, and a frequent writer. He has successfully led several product development teams and believes in defect avoidance over detection.

David lives in Boise, Idaho with his wife and four children, where he spends time being a dad, creating software, having accidents while camping, and falling over on his motorcycle.

Contact David here if you have an project, proposal, or idea you would like to discuss.

Recent Posts by David Starr

• Pluralcast 23 : Visual Studio LightSwitch with Jay Schmelzer - August 30th, 2010
• Pluralcast 22 : How Pluralsight.com gets built with Keith Brown - August 18th, 2010
• Software, “It’s not what we do”. - August 9th, 2010
• Software Craftsmanship on the Polymorphic Podcast - August 4th, 2010
• Pluralcast 21 – Extending Visual Studio 2010 with Kate Gregory - August 1st, 2010
• Pluralcast 20 : Technical Community and Geek Give with Steve Andrews - July 20th, 2010
• Pluralcast 19 : OData with Matt Milner - July 5th, 2010
• Pluralcast 18 : BDD in .NET with StoryQ - June 21st, 2010
• Pluralcast 17 : M, the Modeling Language - June 7th, 2010
• Pluralcast 16 : A Software Journeyman’s Journey - May 23rd, 2010