Pramod Sadalage

Principal Consultant

Why did you join ThoughtWorks?

I assembled a toy train set during interview.

What happened in your first year here?

Day one I was put on a large project with lots of developers, being the only database person I had to support all the developers and within couple of weeks transitioned to using Agile Methods (XP) for the whole project, we went from 500+ tables to 9 tables that was exciting.

Over the year we had lots of practices for doing evolutionary database design and development. We also developed the first working CI server CruiseControl during this time.

My talks

ThoughtWorks & BBC on Big Data, SQL & NoSQL

ThoughtWorks and the BBC present their first joint conference on Big Data, SQL & NoSQL...

Salford, Tuesday, October 16th 2012

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Webinar - ThoughtWorks Technology Radar - US roundtable

Gain insight into emerging technologies, strategic platforms & tools of the future by joining us for an engaging and interactive webinar on the recently released Tech Radar.

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Agile India 2012

ThoughtWorks is a Gold sponsor of Agile India 2012, Asia's largest international conference on Agile and Lean Software Development methods.

Attend the 3-day conference and exchange ideas with researchers and academics from around the world as they showcase the best of international research on Agile software development.

Watch out for the keynote by Rebecca Parsons, ThoughtWorks' CTO and sessions by more than a dozen ThoughtWorkers.

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About me

I have been involved with ThoughtWorks for about 13 years now, involved in making agile and databases work since the early days of agile and then taking our evolutionary database approach to everyone through books and talks at conferences.

I love data in any form, be it structured or unstructured, in OLTP systems or in other forms. Love the passion and energy of thoughtworkers.

I've worked here

Brazil, Canada, China, India, UK, USA

My articles

Behavior Driven Database Development

Pramod shows how the Behavior Driven Development (BDD) technique can be applied to database development and how this technique can be used to develop and design databases in an iterative and incremental way.