Jeff De Luca is a global information technology strategist and an author in the field of software development methodology.
He is considered the primary architect of Feature Driven Development (FDD) circa 1999 [^JDLBIO], a lightweight methodology for developing computer software with reduced management overhead, time and money.
In 1999, Jeff De Luca co-authored Java Modeling In Color With UML (1999, ISBN 0-13-011510-X), along with Peter Coad and Eric Lefebvre.
Although Jeff dropped out of secondary school (high school), and did not start with a college degree, he learned, on-the-job, working for years with programmers and designers at IBM in Melbourne, Australia and transferred with IBM to the United States in Raleigh, North Carolina (^JDLBIO).
After IBM, Jeff formed his own consultancy company, Nebulon Pty Ltd, based in Melbourne, Australia, and developed extensive, complex software systems using the Java technology (with the programming language), object-modelling in UML, and FDD.