About the Author

Daniel Sauble is part UX designer, part developer, and part researcher. He loves enterprise software start-ups and has worked at companies including Puppet Labs and Sonatype on problems encompassing configuration management, repository management, and patch management. Ironically, his first foray into book authorship has nothing to do with any of these.

In his leisure time, he runs, speaks, writes, and spends time with his family. He has learned that there is nothing more painful than the end of an ultramarathon, more nerve-racking than your first conference talk, or more satisfying than a long writing project. One day, he may be foolish enough to start his own company, but for now, he is content to hone his product designing skills in the midst of the start-up culture.

Home is the verdant landscape of the Pacific Northwest, but Daniel enjoys a bit of travel now and then. Between travel, family, work projects, and the personality of an INTJ, he doesn't have much of a social life. He has no illusions that writing a book will change this much.

I would like to thank my wife, Audrey, for bearing with my weekends and evenings spent on this project. I would also like to thank my son for his patience and forbearance while his Papa spent so much time writing this thing called a "book". Not least, I would like to thank Randall Hansen for introducing me to UX design and pushing me to write, speak, and be a better person.