Ipek Ozkaya is a senior member of the technical staff at the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI). With her team at the SEI, she works to help organizations improve their software development efficiency and system evolution. Her work focuses on software architecture practices, software economics, and requirements management. Her latest publications include articles on agile architecting, dependency management, and architectural technical debt. Dr. Ozkaya also serves as the chair of the advisory board of the IEEE Software magazine and as an adjunct faculty member for the Master of Software Engineering Program at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). She also organizes different events (tutorials, workshops, and sessions) and is an invited speaker at software engineering, agile, and architecture venues (e.g., ICSE, OOPSLA, SATURN, and WICSA). She holds a doctorate from CMU in Pittsburgh. She can be reached at ozkaya@sei.cmu.edu.