Erich Gamma
Erich Gamma is a Swiss computer scientist.
He was one of the Gang of Four authors of the influential software engineering textbook, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.
He is an expert in the Eclipse Java development editor, and with Kent Beck he co-wrote the JUnit software testing framework which helped create Test-Driven Development and influenced the whole software industry. He also led the design of the Eclipse platform's Java Development Tools, and worked on the IBM Rational .
In 2011 he joined the Microsoft Visual Studio team and leads a development lab in Zürich, Switzerland that has developed the "Monaco" suite of components for browser-based development, found in products such as Azure DevOps Services, Visual Studio Code, Azure Mobile Services, Azure Web Sites, and the Office 365 Development tools.
