Niall Stapley is a senior software developer at CERN who has worked in the area of accelerator controls for nearly 10 years. At the moment he is involved in automated testing, software quality and release management, including providing tools to support the work of developers and projects.

Originally he arrived at CERN on the technical student programme to help develop ACCIS, the database driven Accelerator Information System. After graduating in Computing from University West of England, he returned to CERN to work on the CERN alarm system, where his primary task was integrating the disparate controls and infrastructure systems around CERN to report abnormal events to the alarm system.

Primarily working with Java/J2EE, he is interested in agile and lean development, and especially anything that improves the software development process, or software quality.