Amir Kirsh is an expert of Object Oriented development and architecture, leading development teams and projects in variety of environments ranging from C++ low level communication systems to JEE, data oriented, financial infrastructures. Amir serves nowadays as the chief programmer of Comverse and as a staff member at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo. In his spare time Amir writes in his blog On Software and Other Animals on items ranging from Unicode BOM to Google Chrome.