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Troy Kranendonk is a Curriculum Manager for Data Access and Analytics as well as an author with Pluralsight Troy studied Digital Media Education and loves to innovate and push the boundaries in with tech. Troy has taught motion graphics, film, graphic design, and 3D animation as well as Action Script, HTML, and CSS and currently teaching Data.

Pinal Dave is an SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert and independent consultant with over 21 years of hands-on experience. He holds a Master of Science degree and numerous database certifications. Pinal has authored 14 SQL Server database books and 61 Pluralsight courses. To freely share his knowledge and help others build their expertise, Pinal has also written more than 5,700 database tech articles on his blog at https://blog.sqlauthority.com.

As a data analyst enthusiast, Mihaela has special interests in translating vision into action using end-to-end data analysis. She is very passionate about teaching and resolving real-world business problems. Her greatest joy is learning new data exploration techniques and pushing the boundaries of data analytics. Mihaela has a bachelor’s degree in economic cybernetics and in her spare time she loves to travel and dance.

Ervis started his career as Mathematics teacher where he came to realize power of effective teaching. After one year of teaching professionally, he decided to challenge himself in the ever evolving and changing tech industry. He never stopped learning new programming skills and languages. Early on, he started creating web apps just for fun. This passion has since lead to his decision to work full-time in the tech field. The success and fun he has in this field keeps that passion alive today. Hi... mores educational background includes an Master of Science in Math and Computer Science. His passion for foreign languages has driven him to learn and fluently communicate in five languages: Albanian, English, Turkish, Italian and German. Creating courses is the best way to combine my hunger for knowledge about new technologies and passion to teach.

Emilee has an M.S. in Business Statistics from Mercer University and currently works as a Data Scientist. She has worked with data for 5+ years, spending the majority of her time in finance. She created marketing solutions at an investment management firm, consulted with lenders on risk models at a credit bureau, and currently works in consumer banking. Through her love of data, she has always had a passion for teaching. Prior to grad school, she worked as a teacher and enjoys simplifying comple... morex topics and helping students learn.

Victoria Clark is a Financial Management Consultant with a background in Finance projects and systems, especially facilitating workshops and education on developments in her field, and has a great interest in new technologies, especially how Finance is evolving due to automation and the role of Finance in the Digital Age. Born in South Africa she is currently living in the Netherlands and enjoys writing, learning new topics and spending time with family.

Pratheerth is a Data Scientist who has entered the field after an eclectic mix of educational and work experiences. He has a Bachelor's in Engineering in Mechatronics from India, Masters in Engineering Management from Australia and then a couple of years of work experience as a Production Engineer in the Middle East. Then when the A.I bug bit him, he dropped everything to dedicate his life to the field. He is currently working on mentoring, course creation and freelancing as a Data Scientist.

Martin studied biostatistics and worked for several pharmaceutical companies before he became a data science consultant and author. He published over 15 courses on R, Tableau 9 and other data science related subjects. His main focus lies on analytics software like R and SPSS but he is also interested in modern data visualization tools like Tableau. If he is not busy coding, blogging or working out new teaching concepts you may find him skiing or hiking in the Alps.

Nertil is a freelance software architect working with different companies around the globe to help them bring their products to market. He has a master’s degree in computer science with a focus in software architecture. One of his main passions is discovering new tools and libraries that exists out there. Knowing what tools are available building apps much easier and gives you the confidence you need when challenging task comes along. Nertil enjoys building practical open source apps in his spar... moree time, it’s how he stays up to date with the latest technologies and contributes back to the open source community.

Tiffany France is a designer and front end developer focused primarily on data visualization. She resides in Virginia where she works as a freelancer on web projects for companies such as Google, Indeed, and Capital One. Tiffany also moonlights as an adjunct professor at a local college teaching Digital Art. Her three goals are: make it beautiful, make it usable, but above all, make it smart.

Roland is a Microsoft MVP enjoying a constant curiosity around new techniques in software development. His focus is on all things .Net and browser technologies. As a long-time trainer, he led many courses on these topics and spoke about them at international conferences. He also travels around the globe to offer his self-developed workshops. The word that comes to mind when he thinks about software development is passion! Roland lives in The Netherlands with his wife and two boys.

Christian Wenz is an architect, consultant and author focusing on web technologies. He wrote or co-wrote over 100 books, is a fixture at international developer conferences since 2001, is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Developer Technologies since 2004, and the main author of the official Zend PHP certification. His day job includes conducting security audits, migrating old code bases, implementing complex web applications and helping companies choose the right web strategy an... mored web technology mix.

Michael Van Sickle is an application architect in Akron, Ohio. He started his career as a mechanical engineer, designing components for the automotive industry, before changing to software engineering. He is passionate about learning new programming languages and is comfortable working in Java, C#, JavaScript, PHP, and F#. Mike also loves learning about user experience design and is taking a lead role in his company's attempt to make applications that are elegant and simple. When he i... mores not writing code, Mike loves to go camping and take long walks with his wife and two girls.

Venkatesh Muniyandi is a passionate IT professional having over 15 years of experience in BI, Big Data, Web & Cloud technologies. He has worked with prestigious clients like Microsoft, Bank of America, Accenture, etc in various roles and responsibilities. He believes in learning through sharing knowledge. Venkatesh is passionate in teaching and also he is an active contributor in Stack Overflow. He believes in providing training content that is aligned with practical software development job ski... morells. His courses are focused on real-time skills/topics to make students productive at a fast pace to contribute to software development activities.

Eugene Meidinger works as an independent BI consultant and Pluralsight author, specializing in Power BI and the Azure Data Platform. He has been working with data for over 8 years and speaks regularly at user groups and conferences. He also helps run the GroupBy online conference.

Emmanuel Segui is a data scientist and instructor of biostatistics at the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine. He regularly teaches courses in data science with R to medical students. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from France and a Master's degree in Industrial Psychology with a concentration on research methods, training & development, and advanced statistics in R. Emmanuel has co-authored several professional posters and published articles in peer-reviewed academic j... moreournals such as MedEdPublish. He is an R enthusiast and is using his expertise and innovative approach to create data pipelines to streamline academic research processes. He delivers lectures on statistical concepts (descriptive and inferential, machine learning, graphical presentation), and provides insight and support to students, faculty and medical doctors in research design, data management, statistical analysis and reporting.

Tim Boles is an Oracle Database Administrator with over 18 years experience. He has worked with every version of Oracle since version 7. His professional specialties include Operations and Management in high value systems, Oracle database backup & recovery and providing database managed services to clients.

Charles Nurse is a Senior .NET developer with over 20 years of application development experience on the Microsoft stack. He is an alumnus of the Microsoft MVP program having been a member for over 10 years. His current passions are Blazor development, Graph Databases and Genealogy.

Craig is passionate about solving problems with the right tools. He has over 20 years of software development experience with large enterprises and small startups on everything from search engines to fighter jets. He has a bachelor's and master's degree in computer science with extensive experience in AWS, microservices, and artificial intelligence. Craig enjoys teaching and mentoring others so they can save time and accomplish their goals faster.

Ranjan Relan is a Founder/CTO of GenAI company - AgentAnalytics.com . He previously worked as AI, Data and Tech Strategy Consultant with more than 16+ years of experience in the field of Analytics which includes working on Machine Learning, Big data and Data ware housing projects. He has helped clients across Hi Tech, Telecom and Pharma domain in developing data strategy, cloud adoption strategy, analytics strategy ,solution architecture.

Matt Calderwood is a Senior Software Engineer from the UK with over fifteen years' experience of building web applications with the Microsoft technology stack. Recently he has been creating solutions using the Microsoft Azure platform and Power BI - enabling organizations to gain new insights with their data and to push the boundaries of what is possible with business intelligence. His background in programming, along with his passion for all things AI, Data, and Machine Learning, gives him a un... moreique perspective on modern application development.

Sai Krishna has started his career in analyzing data using Excel sheets. He had gained experience and became expert in Advanced Excel and SQL techniques to build Dashboards and Reports for fortune 500 organizations. His experience is mostly into supply chain domain and data visualization. As data volumes increased over time, he mastered state of the art visualizations tools like Qlik Sense, Sisense and Tableau to analyze huge data sets. He has all skills for full stack data engineer.