Steve Lydford is an experienced technology leader currently serving as Chief Operating Officer at Codurance since April 2015, with previous roles including Regional Director, Head of Professional Services, Head of Delivery, and Principal Software Craftsman. Prior to Codurance, Lydford worked as a Senior Software Development Consultant at Totaljobs Group and as a Development Lead on a significant pharmaceutical project at Solidsoft Reply Ltd., where the company earned the Microsoft Global Partner of the Year award for Cloud Development. Earlier career experiences include software engineering at Coleg Llandrillo, authoring a book on ASP.NET Web Pages for Apress, and analyst programming roles at Top Jobs on the Net and Hampshire Police.
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They build well-crafted software and help development teams to get better at continuously delivering software through the application of Extreme Programming practices and Software Craftsmanship values. Software Craftsmanship is at the heart of their company. In 2010, the founders started the London Software Craftsmanship Community (LSCC) which hasgrown to become the largest and most active Software Craftsmanship community in the world, with more than 3,500 developers that meet a few times a month to share and learn. Codurance was founded in 2013 and inherited the same community spirit. Since 2013, they have been organising SoCraTes UK—an International Software Craftsmanship Gathering that attracts software crafts[wo]men from all over Europe.