Steve McConnell is CEO and Chief Software Engineer at Construx Software where he writes books and articles, teaches classes, and oversees Construx's software engineering practices. In 1998, readers of Software Development magazine named him one of the three most influential people in the software industry along with Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds.

Steve is the author of Code Complete (1993, 2004), Rapid Development (1996), Software Project Survival Guide (1998), and Professional Software Development (2004) as well as numerous technical articles. Steve's books have twice won Software Development magazine's Jolt Excellence award for outstanding software development book of the year.

Steve is Editor in Chief Emeritus of IEEE Software magazine, serves on the Panel of Experts of the SWEBOK project, and is Chair of the IEEE Computer Society's Professional Practices Committee.

Steve received a bachelor's degree from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, graduating Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and a master's degree in software engineering from Seattle University.