Profile: 

Jezz Santos is a Principal Product Development Consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services, who specializes in Enterprise Product Development, Guidance Automation and Software Factories. His IT career has led him around the globe in several countries of Europe, Asia and the South Pacific. He has been immersed in Microsoft product development since the mid 1990's in a multitude of development roles for various types of companies including research, ISV, GSI, and now as a field consultant. As the result of this work, he explores the means and methods of developing and packaging reusable assets and automated guidance, making it actionable and customizable in the form of Software Factories. Jezz currently works very closely as an advisor to the Microsoft patterns & practices team, the Visual Studio Architects (VSTESA) and the DSL Tools team to help realize the concrete vision of Software Factories for Microsoft.
Jezz created one of the world’s first implementations of a software factory (the ‘EFx Factory’) which demonstrates many of the advanced features of a future generation of software factories to come from Microsoft. He now spends his time helping customers and partners realize the practical vision of software factories. His blog “Software and Factories, and making sense of it for you” is dedicated to socializing and advancing fellow software developers’ understanding of this space. He is very active in the software factory building community providing guidance and various tooling innovations pushing software factory development forward. Jezz is the owner of the DSL Editor PowerToy, an open source community project for enhancing domain specific languages. You can also find him speaking at various technical events, on building software factories.