About

Ted M. Young (he/him) is a Java trainer, coding coach, speaker, and tabletop game designer. He’s been in software development for over 40 years, teaching and coding in Java since the 1.0 beta, and doing eXtreme Programming since 2000.

Ted has worked for eBay, Google, Apple, and Guidewire Software. He is now an independent educator, helping those new to the industry and experienced folks increase their joy in coding by making it easier to understand and modify.

Ted’s favorite design techniques are test-driven development, refactoring, domain-driven design, testable architectures, and event-sourcing.

Social Media

Ted is known as JitterTed on:

• Mastodon
• LinkedIn
• BlueSky
• Twitch
• YouTube
• Twitter
• …and elsewhere.
  • If you see a JitterTed, you know it’s me (well, except for Twitter, where who knows who is who over in that tire fire?)

Podcasts

I’ve appeared on a bunch of podcasts over the years, which are listed on the Podcasts page.

Talks

For a list of conference, user group, meetup, online, etc. talk recordings, slides, source code repositories, etc., you’ll find them on the Talks page.

Where?

Sometimes I travel to attend and speak at conferences, user groups, and other gatherings. You can see where I am or will be going on my Where’s Ted? page.