Tom has  toiled as a single programmer for forty-four years in the software application building trenches, researching and employing different software methodologies to construct software. His background does not come from the spacious suites of pristine corporate campuses of billion-dollar software companies with colossal programmer organizations. His knowledge comes from his decades of solo programming in lousy, noisy cubicles, sometimes in closets by himself for all sizes of companies. For five decades, he has continuously struggled to deliver successful (94%) single-programmer applications with minimal resources for small groups of inpatient clients.

Tom started as the lone programmer in a two different aerospace research departments. After that, he worked at Exxon as the only programmer in several research groups for eleven years. He left Exxon to become an independent computer programmer, where he spent thirty years functioning as a solo programmer on over a hundred projects.

In 2014, he retired, and since then, he has applied his many years of experience and research; along with some serious retroflection to complete this book, FAST Solo Development.