Martin Fowler

Martin Fowler
Talk at University of São Paulo, Brazil in 2015
Born	1963 (age 53–54) Walsall, England
Residence	Melrose, Massachusetts
Education	University College London (BSc, 1986)
Occupation	Software developer, author, public speaker
Employer	ThoughtWorks
Website	martinfowler.com

Martin Fowler (born 1963) is a British software developer, author and international public speaker on software development, specializing in object-oriented analysis and design, UML, patterns, and agile software development methodologies, including extreme programming.

His 1999 book Refactoring popularized the practice of code refactoring. In 2004 he introduced Presentation Model (PM), an architectural pattern.

Fowler was born and grew up in Walsall, England, where he went to Queen Mary's Grammar School for his secondary education. He graduated at University College London in 1986. In 1994 he moved to the United States, where he lives near Boston, Massachusetts in the suburb of Melrose.

Fowler started working with software in the early 1980s. Out of university in 1986 he started working in software development for Coopers & Lybrand until 1991. In 2000 he joined ThoughtWorks, a systems integration and consulting company, where he serves as Chief Scientist.

Fowler has written eight books on the topic of software development (see Publications). He is a member of the Agile Alliance and helped create the Manifesto for Agile Software Development in 2001, along with 16 fellow signatories. He maintains a bliki, a mix of blog and . He popularized the term Dependency Injection as a form of Inversion of Control.