Jason Alba has been a Pluralsight Author since 2012, specializing in soft skills and professional development. He started his IT career as an intern developing tools for a robust intranet. He transitioned to an IT manager at another company where his job included web development as well as other IT functions. After an acquisition Jason became VP and then general manager at a newly formed tech company. He founded and manages JibberJobber.com, a CRM for job seekers. Jason has authored three books.... more He speaks and blogs regularly about soft skills, professional development, and career management. He has a CIS undergraduate and an MBA from Idaho State University.

Shelley has 20+ years of experience in IT as an Entrepreneur, Manager, Trainer, Docker Community Leader, and Sitecore MVP. She has a passion for tiaras, technology, gaming, and general nerdery. She loves to learn new things as well as mentor and teach others. She teaches leadership, communication, Docker, and Sitecore development. Shelley aims to provide her students with an immersive learning experience, not just a bunch of lectures and handouts. She has studied learning and instructional desig... moren so that she can combine her skills in development and training effectively. Many of her courses include entertaining animated scenarios using real experiences from her career to walk students through common workplace events to help visualize learning objectives. Shelley is currently a Co-Owner of HoffsTech, LLC, an organization that she started with her family to provide training and digital media production.

Dan Appleman is a well known author, software developer, and speaker. Currently the CTO of Full Circle Insights, he is the author of numerous books, ebooks, and online courses on various topics (technology and other). His latest book is "Advanced Apex Programming" - advancedapex.com Personal Website http://danappleman.com.

Jillian works at a large enterprise company where she has global responsibility for ensuring CSPs can monetize their investments in 5G through future Enterprise use cases. She is long-time Telecom industry veteran. Previous to her current role, Jillian spent 14 years at Verizon. She joined Network Engineering during the launch of FTTP (FiOS) where she managed over a billion dollars in inventory in the Central Offices. While she worked, she received a Technical MBA and upon completion started a n... moreew role in Product Management where she managed a B2B SaaS. She went onto various roles in Marketing Operations and Sales Enablement. She is a strong believer in ‘Technology for Good’ and works to bring it to the forefront of all messaging. She is an author, speaker and believer in paying it forward helping women in the industry find their voice and share their accomplishments. She currently resides in Massachusetts with her husband, daughter and dog. In her free time, she enjoys volunteering, spending time with her family, horseback riding, eating and working out.

Stephen Haunts is an experienced Software Developer and Leader who has worked across multiple business domains including Computer Games, Finance, and Healthcare Retail and Distribution. Stephen has worked in languages ranging from Assembler, various forms of BASIC, to C and C++, and then finding his love of C# and .NET. Stephen also runs a Software Development and Leadership blog called {Coding in the Trenches} which can be read at http://www.stephenhaunts.com . Stephen also runs a small music ... morelabel and sound design company where he also developed the site and content management system. As well as blogging, and running software teams for large companies, Stephen also runs some open source projects on CodePlex including SafePad - an encrypted text editor, Text Shredder - an encrpyted messaging tool, and Smoke Tester - a post deployment verification testing framework.

Tony Curtis is a Technical Program Manager at Health Catalyst in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has been developing software professionally since 1995. Tony has developed primarily in object-oriented languages and spent the majority of his career in the medical industry. For the past few years he has been working with the .NET Framework, but more recently has transitioned to JavaScript and specifically AngularJS web development. He is passionate about unit testing, and software craftsmanship. Tony lov... morees spending time with his wife and family, including a Malamute named Zeus. He also enjoys writing sci-fi and crafting pottery. He very much enjoys euro-games and other eclectic games with friends, family, and co-workers.