Sam Newman is a technical consultant at ThoughtWorks, and have been working there since 2004. If you asked him what he does, he'd say "I work with people to build better software systems". He's written articles for O'Reilly, presented at conferences, and sporadically commit to open source projects. Sam spent most of his career so far coding in Java, but now spend a lot of his time with Python, Clojure, Infrastructure Automation and Cloud systems.
Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith