Mike was the Head of Curriculum at Pluralsight, where he led the team that drove the vision and strategy for delivering world class technical content for professional technologists around the world working as developers, architects, IT operations professionals and data scientists and analysts. A former Microsoft C# MVP and multiple U.S. patent holder, Mike has over 20 years of experience developing high performance software systems and training developers around the world.
Gill Cleeren is a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP and Pluralsight author. Gill is the CTO of Xebia Microsoft Services Belgium and focuses on web and mobile architecture. He's also a frequent speaker at many international conferences. Gill also founded Techorama, the biggest IT conference in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Neil has worked on everything from early mobile .NET compact framework apps to modern Azure based web apps during his years in IT. As a developer and architect, he has focused on .NET and JavaScript application development, security, and hosting across a variety of Microsoft platforms, including ASP.NET, SharePoint, and Dynamics CRM. Neil has several Microsoft Certifications, including MCPD, MCSA, and MCSD.
With over 15 years of experience in both frontend and backend software development, Jason Roberts is a freelance developer, trainer, and author. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computing, is the author of several books, and writes at his blog DontCodeTired.com. Jason is an open source contributor and in addition to enterprise software development, he has designed and developed Windows Store and Windows Phone apps.
Paul has over thirty years of experience architecting information systems and his expertise is in much demand from Fortune 500 companies. Paul is a Pluralsight author, has published 400+ articles, and authored over 14 books on topics ranging from JavaScript, Angular, C#, SQL Server and many .NET technologies. Paul is a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups.
Filip is an enthusiastic developer that strives to learn something new every day. With almost two decades of experience in .NET, Filip actively spreads his knowledge and ideas around the globe, be it speaking at conferences or online. Filip has worked in a range of different technologies such as WPF, Win Forms, ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, Xamarin and .NET MAUI. In 2012, Filip published the book C# Smorgasbord, covering a vast variety of different technologies and patterns using C#, and right after Fi
... morelip was introduced as an author at Pluralsight. After that, he was awarded the Microsoft MVP award for 10 years in a row.
Thomas is a Microsoft MVP for Windows Development. He works as a developer, consultant, and trainer in the fields of .NET, C#, TypeScript, XAML, and Azure.
Thomas is a well-known speaker and book author. He has written several special interest books in his areas, including an extensive handbook for Windows Presentation Foundation and a handbook on development with TypeScript. Thomas lives in Germany's Black Forest with his wife and their three daughters. In his spare time, he plays football and
... moreguitar, works out at the gym, and likes riding into the sunset with his motorcycle.
Steve Gordon is a Pluralsight author, Microsoft MVP and senior engineer based in the UK. He works for Elastic maintaining their .NET client libraries. Steve is passionate about community and all things .NET related, having worked with ASP.NET for over 17 years. Steve enjoys sharing his knowledge through his blog, in videos and by presenting talks at user groups and conferences. Steve is excited to be a part of the .NET community and founded .NET South East, a .NET Meetup group based in Brighton.
... more He enjoys contributing to and maintaining OSS projects.
Alex has spent the past 30+ years working as a software developer, application architect, cybersecurity professional, and technical trainer. He is a lifelong learner and holds over 20 active certifications in IT. Alex is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and enjoys sharing his knowledge with others. He has taught at Rutgers University, Bergen Community College, County College of Morris, College of Southern Nevada, and UNLV. He holds a BS in Software Development and a Masters in Cybersecurity from We
... morestern Governors University. As a developer, Alex works with Java, C#, and Python helping small businesses and entrepreneurs achieve their vision from a technical perspective. He also works as a virtual CISO, performs penetration testing, and educates businesses and individuals on the importance of cybersecurity. When not working, Alex spends his time with his beautiful wife, and many pets, including two cats, and three Boston Terriers. He is an active runner and cyclist and is an ethical and health-conscious vegan.
Simon Robinson first cut his developer teeth in the early 1980s writing a scheduling system in BBC Basic(!) for his local college. Since then, his programming career has spanned industries ranging from academic research to telecoms to finance, and many computer languages such as C++, C# and Python, as well as writing front-end and back-end code for Windows and Web. He believes knowledge is to be shared, and has written or co-written more than a dozen books for professional programmers, includin
... moreg the influential first edition of Professional C# Programming, the first comprehensive book on C#. You can follow his blog at http://TechieSimon.com
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.
Zoran Horvat is Principal consultant at Coding Helmet Consultancy, speaker
and author of 100+ articles, and independent trainer on .NET technology stack.
He can often be found speaking at conferences and user groups, promoting
object-oriented development style and clean coding practices and techniques
that improve longevity of complex business applications.
Dan Wahlin founded Wahlin Consulting, which provides consulting and training services on JavaScript, Angular, Node.js, C#, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Docker, and Kubernetes. He is a Google GDE (and former Microsoft MVP and Regional Director), Docker Captain, and speaks at conferences and user groups around the world.
Dan is active on Twitter (@DanWahlin), blogs at https://blog.codewithdan.com, and adds a lot of code to his Github repos at https://github.com/danwahlin.
Henry Been is an independent architect and developer from The Netherlands. He enjoys working with software development teams to create and deliver great software. His interests include the Azure cloud, Agile, DevOps, software architecture, and testable and maintainable software design and implementation. Besides his work, he is a conference speaker at international conferences, is the author of two books, and creates online training courses for Pluralsight and A Cloud Guru. For his work in the c
... moreommunity, he has been awarded the Microsoft MVP Award since 2019.
Mel Grubb has been a professional software developer since 1995, working with .Net
since version 1.0. Before that, he was a hobbyist since receiving his first
computer, a TI-99/4a in 1982, and heavily modifying it over the course of
several years. He's a software developer in central Ohio, concentrating on
C# and ASP.Net MVC solutions with a focus on simplicity,
testability, and overall coding craftsmanship.
Steve Smith (@ardalis) is an entrepreneur and software developer with a passion for building quality software as effectively as possible. He provides mentoring and training workshops for teams with the desire to improve. Steve has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for over 10 consecutive years, and is a frequent speaker at software developer conferences and events. He is the top contributor to the official documentation on ASP.NET Core and enjoys helpings others write maintainable, testable app
... morelications using Microsoft's developer tools. Connect with Steve at ardalis.com.
Kevin Dockx is a freelance solution architect, author & consultant, living in Antwerp (Belgium). He's mainly focused on solution/application architectures & security for web-based (API) applications built with .NET, but he also keeps an eye out for new developments concerning other products from the .NET stack. He's a Microsoft MVP and board member of the RD MS Community.
He's also a regular speaker at various (inter)national conferences & user group events, and works on various open source pro
... morejects, like Microsoft.AspNet.JsonPatch & Marvin.Cache.Headers.
Kevin likes to travel to places he hasn't seen before, and enjoys a good glass of wine in the company of a few good friends.
Xavier has a two passions. He loves the challenge of learning about complex topics and then sharing this newfound knowledge with others. The topics he is currently focused on are AI, ML, Generative AI, Search and Big Data.
He is also an entrepreneur, project manager, technical author, trainer, and holds a few certifications with Cloudera, Microsoft, and the Scrum Alliance, along with having been awarted Microsoft MVP.
He has spent a great deal of his career working on cutting-edge projects.
... more Throughout multiple projects, he has acquired skills to deal with complex enterprise software solutions, working with companies that range from startups to Microsoft.
Xavier also worked as a worldwide v-trainer/evangelist for Microsoft and is currently the cofounder of Lupo.ai, a SaaS platform for video creation, which is his Ikigai.
Talk to Xavier on Linkedin. He loves to chat and has countless stories.
Chris B. Behrens is a writer, speaker and software developer, specializing in DevOps. He has been a developer and architect for more than twenty years focusing on small to medium size companies and the development changes they face. He focuses on his flavor of Fear Based Development, whereby a developer ranks their tasks in descending order of anxiety, and how to tackle them in that order. Chief among these anxiety-inducing processes is software deployment, a topic that Behrens focuses upon. He
... morelives in Kennedale, TX with his wife and children.