Pluralsight Instructors


Aaron Skonnard

Aaron Skonnard is co-founder of Pluralsight, a premier Microsoft .NET training provider. Aaron is coauthor Pluralsight's WCF, Web services, and BizTalk Server courses. Over the years, Aaron has written numerous articles and books on XML and Web services technologies and he's a contributing editor with MSDN Magazine where he authored The XML Files and Service Station columns. Check out his blog at http://pluralsight.com/aaron/.
Aaron's blog

Jon Fancey

Jon Fancey is a founder of Affinus, a UK-based consultancy focused on large-scale enterprise integration. In particular Jon is interested in BizTalk Server, Web services and associated technologies and standards. He has written for MSDN Magazine and Web site and talked at various Microsoft-focused conferences including TechEd. Jon is recognized by Microsoft as an MVP for his community contributions.
Jon's blog

Brian Randell

Brian A. Randell is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on Visual Studio Team System. Brian is also a senior consultant with MCW Technologies, LLC. For over 20 years, Brian has been building software solutions and educating his fellow developers. Brian spends his time teaching Microsoft technologies to developers, working with new and emerging technologies like Visual Studio Team System 2008, and consulting worldwide for Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft, state and local governments, and small businesses. Brian enjoys helping people get the most out of their software.
Brian's blog

Jon Flanders

Jon is most at home spelunking, trying to figure out exactly how things work. Jon wrote Essential ASP for Addison-Wesley, and co-authored Mastering Visual Studio.NET for O'Reilly. Jon has also been involved with Windows Workflow Foundation since its beta release, and currently has been working with Microsoft delivering jumpstart training for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and BizTalk RFID.
Jon's blog

Craig Andera

Craig is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on architecture and design. Specializing in large-scale web system implementation, Craig spent his early career working with COM and C++, but since 2001 has been teaching and consulting full-time on the .NET platform in C#. Craig has written for MSDN magazine and spoken at conferences both nationally and internationally.
Craig's blog

Keith Brown

Keith is a co-founder of Pluralsight with a focus on security and identity. Keith spends most of his time researching security techniques and technologies, and has spent a decade teaching and developing course material for professional software developers. Keith is a contributing editor for MSDN Magazine, and has authored several books for developers covering Windows security, ASP.NET, and COM. Keith has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for several years.
Keith's blog

Dan Sullivan

Dan is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he heads up the SQL Server curriculum. Dan is also an independent consultant, author, and speaker. He likes data; pointy data, rectangular data, even data just lying around on the floor. He is a co-author of the book "A Developers Guide to SQL Server 2005". His articles have been published in MSDN Magazine and SQL Server Magazine and he has spoken at WinDev, Microsoft events, as well as to various developer groups.
Dan's blog

Kevin Jones

Kevin is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he helps out with the patterns, agile, and architecture curriculum. Kevin is an independent software consultant with over 25 years experience in the industry. Kevin specialises in web development, both in Java and ASP.Net and more recently has started investigating Ruby on Rails. Kevin is passionate about books, Welsh rugby and Manchester United, as well as layered design, the use of patterns and unit testing during development.
Kevin's blog

David Cowles

David is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on connected systems technologies. David is also an independent consultant and has experience developing software for UNIX, Windows, and other platforms using C++, Java, and C#. He has developed large-scale, mission critical applications for government, banking, and manufacturing industries.
David's blog

Matt Milner

Matt is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on connected systems technologies. Matt is also an independent consultant specializing in Microsoft .NET technologies with a focus on Windows Workflow Foundation, BizTalk Server, Windows Communication Foundation, and ASP.NET. As a writer Matt has contributed to several journals and magazines such as .NET Developers Journal and MSDN Magazine where he currently authors the workflow content for the Foundations column.
Matt's blog

Fritz Onion

Fritz is a co-founder of Pluralsight where he focuses on Web development with ASP.NET, Ajax, and Silverlight. Fritz is the author of the books 'Essential ASP.NET' and 'Essential ASP.NET 2.0' published by Addison Wesley. He is a regular speaker at industry conferences including the PDC, TechEd, and VSLive!. Microsoft recognizes Fritz as an MVP for his contributions to the ASP.NET community.
Fritz's blog

Mike Woodring

Mike Woodring is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight. Mike is also an independent software consultant that develops for, writes about, and speaks on .NET technologies. He is particularly interested in runtime internals, multithreading, and speech-based application development. Mike is co-author of Win32 Multithreaded Programming and Debugging Windows Programs: Strategies, Tools, and Techniques for Visual C++ Programmers.
Mike's blog

Ian Griffiths

Ian Griffiths is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on the presentation layer curriculum. Ian is also an independent consultant, developer, speaker, and author. He has written books on Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Forms, and Visual Studio. He lives in London but can often be found on various developer mailing lists and newsgroups, where a popular sport is to see who can get him to write the longest email in reply to the shortest possible question.
Ian's blog

Sahil Malik

Sahil Malik, the founder and principal of Winsmarts, has been a Microsoft MVP and INETA Speaker for many years, author of many books and numerous articles, consultant and trainer who delivers training and talks at conferences internationally.
Sahil's blog

Jim Wilson

Jim Wilson is president of JW Hedgehog, Inc. (www.jwhh.com) a New Hampshire-based consulting firm specializing in solutions for the Windows and Windows Mobile platforms. Jim has worked extensively with the .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework since the original beta release of each. Jim writes frequently for MSDN online and has developed mobility and smart client curriculums for several organizations. As a speaker, Jim can be seen at Tech Ed, VSLive, Mobility & Embedded DevCon and WinDev.
Jim's blog

Scott Allen

Scott Allen is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on connected systems and Web development. Scott has over 15 years of experience in commercial software development and is a frequent speaker at national conferences, and local user groups. Scott is a Microsoft MVP and has authored books on several Microsoft technologies, including ASP.NET, C#, and Windows Workflow.
Scott's blog

Dr. Joe Hummel

Joe is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on High Performance Computing and .NET languages. Joe has been specializing in Microsoft technologies since 1992, and is well-versed in Microsoft's High-Performance Computing initiative (HPC Server, Compute Cluster Server, MPI, MPI.NET, OpenMP, PFx), web technologies (ASP.NET and Ajax Extensions for ASP.NET), the desktop (WinForms), LINQ, .NET Framework, and its most popular languages (VC++, C#, F# and VB).
Joe's blog

Ted Neward

Ted Neward is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on connected systems, languages, and virtual machine technology. He is also a Principal Consultant for ThoughtWorks, a consulting firm focusing on Agile solutions for customers large and small. He has authored over a half-dozen books and hundreds of articles in both the Java and .NET technology spaces.
Ted's blog