Udi Dahan

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Andrew Siemer

His technology focus has revolved around Microsoft offerings. Currently this equates to Asp.NET, Asp.NET MVC, Web API, C#, and SQL Server. He has also spent quite a bit of time in the Azure, Amazon, and Rackspace cloud with most of his time lately being dedicated to AWS.

Jeffrey Palermo

He has spoken and facilitated at industry conferences such as VSLive, DevTeach, the Microsoft MVP Summit, various ALT.NET conferences, and Microsoft Tech Ed. He also speaks to user groups around the country as part of the INETA Speakers’ Bureau.

Indu Alagarsamy

She is currently a Global Lead Applications Architect at Unisys. Indu works with clients to help them in their application modernization journey of their legacy systems and remove business friction. Indu is also passionate about diversity and inclusiveness in the tech industry. When not programming, she is either rock climbing in sunny Southern California or spending time with her kids including her giant puppy!

Oren Eini aka Ayende Rahien

Oren Eini has over 15 years of experience in the development world with a strong focus on architecture and best practices that promote quality software and zero-friction development.

An internationally known presenter, Oren has spoken at conferences such as DevTeach, JAOO and Oredev, and is the author of the book "Building Domain Specific Languages with Boo", soon to be published by Manning. Oren, using his pseudonym as Ayende Rahien, is a frequent blogger at http://www.ayende.com/Blog/. His hobbies include reading fantasy novels, reviewing code, and writing about himself in the third person.

Oren is also a Microsoft MVP, a fact that he tends to forget when writing a bio.

Oren has been primarily involved in projects that are part of the Microsoft and .NET ecosystem and has been awarded the Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional since 2007.

A popular international expert, blogger and speaker at many international conferences including Skills Matter's NOSQL eXchange and The Progressive.NET Tutorials as well as at other conferences like DevTeach, JAOO, QCon, Oredev, NDC, Yow!, Oren regularly shares his skills, expertise and experience with the developer community.

He has also been sharing his vision and skills at Skills Matter's In-the-Brain or Real Experts Sessions and by running his RavenDB classes and his NHibernate classes here at Skills Matter.

Oren is the author of the book "DSLs in Boo: Domain Specific Languages in .NET" (Manning).

Oren, using his pseudonym as Ayende Rahien and is a fervent blogger on http://www.ayende.com/Blog/.

Projects Oren leads or contributes to:

• Rhino Mocks, one of the most popular mocking frameworks on the .NET platform and the Rhino Tools Suite
• NHibernate
• RavenDB
• Castle project.

Sam Martindale

With over 14 years in the industry, Sam has devoted his career to helping others transform their organizations by adopting and promoting scalable, extensible solutions based on modern frameworks and architectural paradigms.

Sean Farmar

Carl Franklin

He was awarded the MVP for Kinect because of his work on gesture recognition. Namely, KinectTools and GesturePak. KinectTools is an abstraction over the Kinect 2.0 SDK that takes the detail work out of using the Kinect in a Windows application. GesturePak lets you record, edit, and recognize gestures in a Windows application. Both are free open source products.

Carl is also the creator of Music to Code By, a set of 25-minute long instrumental music pieces designed to get you into a state of flow and keep you there. Music to Code By has been praised widely by developers for keeping them focused and helping them solve difficult problems.

Carl has been a leader in the .NET community since 2002, and in the Visual Basic (VB) community before that.

Richard Campbell

For years he's served as a consultant to companies in many countries, including Barnes&Noble.com, Dow Chemical, Johnson & Johnson Health Care Services, Reuters, Subaru/Isuzu and the U.S. Air Force, providing advice on architecture, scaling systems and mentoring development teams. His long experience in working with large scale systems made him a sought-after consultant during the halycon years of the DotCom boom. He worked closely with venture capital and private equity firms providing architectural guidance and due diligence.

He is a Microsoft Regional Director and is recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the area ofASP.NET development.

In 2004 Richard first met Carl Franklin, creator of .NET Rocks!, The Internet Audio Talkshow for .NET Developers. Richard was a guest on show 69, but his friendship with Carl quickly evolved into a partnership and by show 100 in early 2005 he came onboard as co-host. In 2007 he started RunAs Radio, a podcast for IT Professionals.

Jeffrey Palermo

He has spoken and facilitated at industry conferences such as VSLive, DevTeach, the Microsoft MVP Summit, various ALT.NET conferences, and Microsoft Tech Ed. He also speaks to user groups around the country as part of the INETA Speakers’ Bureau.

Ted Neward

He is an authority in Java and .NET technologies, particularly in the areas of Java/.NET integration (both in-process and via integration tools like Web services), back-end enterprise software systems, and virtual machine/execution engine plumbing.

Adam Fyles

Kijana Woodard

Jimmy Bogard

Jimmy has delivered solutions ranging from shrink–wrapped products to enterprise e–commerce applications for Fortune 100 customers. He is an active member in the .NET community, leading open source projects, giving technical presentations, and facilitating technical book clubs.

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Andreas Ohlund

Yves Goeleven

His main interests are software architecture, windows azure, messaging and hacking around with devices.

Udi Dahan

Udi can be contacted via his blog at www.UdiDahan.com and also follow Udi on Twitter @udidahan