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title: "About Roy Osherove"
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author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Name : Roy Osherove Date of Birth : 17/08/1975 Family Status : Married to a beautiful wife named Tal . Were married 2 days after the 9-11 at NYC. (Must be a good sign, right ...?). My wife Tal is a SP.NET/Win forms…"
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# About Roy Osherove

By Roy Osherove February 25, 2003

**Historical article** · Originally published February 25, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

**Name**: Roy Osherove

**Date of Birth**: 17/08/1975

**Family Status**: Married to a beautiful wife named **Tal**. Were married 2 days after the 9-11 at NYC. (Must be a good sign, right ...?).

**My wife Tal** is a SP.NET/Win forms  programmer for the past 5 years. We also have a Cat named "**Zion**" (pronounced "Tzi-yon"). It was named so because when Tal Found it on the street she said "Zion" and he Meowed (which, apparently, is a very big sign of trust in the cat world..).

We all live together at a city called “Petah-Tikva“ near tel-aviv, Israel

**Occupation**: Developer/Team leader/Methodologist/speaker/architect and so on and so forth....

I am a Microsoft **MVP**.

I Currently hold three **MCP** titles :

 - _**Developing Applications with Visual Basic 6.0**_

 - _**Developing Distributed Applications with VB 6.0**_

 - _**Developing Windows Applications with C#**_

My short bio:

Roy Osherove has spent the past 7+ years developing data driven applications for various companies in Israel. He's a Microsoft MVP, holds several MCP titles, written various .NET related articles, some of them published on MSDN, and most of which can be found on his [weblog](https://osherove.com/rosherove "http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove"). Roy is also the author of the now famous free regular expression tool, [The Regulator](http://regulator.sourceforge.net/ "http://regulator.sourceforge.net/"), and speaks in various community groups and conferences on topics such as Test Driven Development, Agile methodologies, Regular Expressions and extensible .Net applications. Roy works as a senior consultant at [Magen](http://www.magen.com/ "http://www.magen.com/"), a Microsoft Technology Center in Israel and his main passion is community and discovering new and wonderful things in the world of technology and methodology

![](https://osherove.com/img/wb/edda0eaa_www.mvpaward.com_assets_mvplogo.gif)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

### Social

- X: https://x.com/royosherove
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/

### Contact

- Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7

### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/