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.

Pluralsight author for the Software Development and Operations space. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer. Always says Hi to dogs.

Jeremy Morgan is on a mission to help developers get better at what they do. He's a Senior Developer Evangelist for Pluralsight, and an avid tech blogger and speaker. He has two decades of experience as an engineer building software for everything from Fortune 100 companies to tiny startups. He stays immersed in the .NET/Azure world while always keeping one foot in the Linux ecosystem building Python and Go applications. He's primarily focused on backend API development and cloud infrastructur... moree, and finding new ways to deploy software safely and quickly. Jeremy enjoys teaching through his popular tech blog as well as contributing to open source as a .NET Foundation Member, and DevOps Institute Ambassador.

As a mobile developer, James always had a passion for building exciting apps and always striving to make user interfaces that were easy and intuitive to use. Today, he now works at Pendo where he is helping to build tools that can be used to make apps that people love. He is accomplishing this by building distributed systems that scale using Go and Google Cloud. Never satisfied with his knowledge, he is a life-long learner and is always interested in looking to grow and learn and then shares ... morehis knowledge with others. James has worked in a wide array of fields whether as a technician working with radar and communication systems or as a developer building on platforms such as .NET, iOS, and Android. In his free time, James enjoys spending time with his family, playing video games, and reading fiction and non-fiction.

Ashish is a Technology Manager and architect with a deep passion for Cloud and been engaged with developing Cloud based solutions for Global Clients. He began his career with Windows NT and has done MCSE 2 times (now legacy) and he's Azure Architect certified. For many years, he worked on implementing Enterprise IP Telephony and deploying different CRM systems. He's had the privilege to work for different industries like Service, Manufacturing, Automotive and Banking. He loves understanding clie... morent business requirements and translating them into technology solutions. He also specialize in delivering POCs, escalation management, running pilots and managing technology projects. Teaching comes naturally to him as he started teaching university students when he was a student. Ashish is an advocate of MS Azure and has developed cloud Enterprise solutions specially for Emerging technologies like IOT, AR and Cognitive services. When he's not glued to his computer, he's either watching movies or playing video games.

Alex Schultz an award-winning machine learning software engineer with over 10 years of experience working across the entire development stack. In that time he's worked with many languages and frameworks and built applications for everything ranging from mobile and IOT, to front-end web development, to scalable backend web services. He ran the Amazon Web Services (AWS) User Group in his hometown for three years and is also a former AWS Machine Learning Hero.