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.
Jason Edleman is a certified life coach with over 10 years of experience providing coaching to individuals aiming to reach their goals either personally or professionally. Jason is certified in Motivational Interviewing, an NLP Master Practitioner, Stephen Ministry care giving, and holds his associate certified coach certificate (ACC) from the International Coaching Federation. He has received over 400 hours of training and supervision in coaching and caregiving. Additionally, Jason holds multi
... moreple other professional certifications related to project management (PMP, CSM) and business strategy (BRMP). Coaching is a part-time passion for Jason. He is an active business leader working in the IT Services industry. Jason is also an insatiable shutterbug often taking to the streets to capture the more interesting aspects of our planet.
Harry has a Masters in Advanced Computer Science focusing on cloud application development and software quality assurance. He has a passion for the open-source community and a love for cloud technologies, such as Microsoft Azure.
Emilio Melo is a globetrotting IT professional with projects in over 15 countries, mostly focused on Microsoft software. After 15 years of On Premises experience in Infrastructure, Data and Collaboration, he became fascinated by Cloud technologies and the incredible transformation potential it brings.
William C. Myers (Billy Clay Myers) is a Senior Azure FastTrack Engineer with the Customer Experience Engineering Team (CXP) at Microsoft. He holds many certifications including Azure Developer and Architecture Certifications. With over 20 years of experience as a software developer starting with Visual Basic 2, he has focused on continually improving himself through learning and enjoys the opportunity to now share his knowledge to help others learn. He grew up in Refugio, Texas a small South Te
... morexas town where he was fortunate enough to be mentored early on by the late Charles Ezra Cook. Mr. Cook was a fantastic educator with a passion for teaching and sharing his knowledge. That passion has infected Billy Clay and has driven him to become a Pluralsight author. Billy Clay currently resides in Nashville with his wife Wendy and two cats. He has a great love for Rock Crawling and when he is not learning or teaching he is constantly working on his latest offroad project.
Brian has been working in the Cloud space for more than a decade as both a Cloud Architect and Cloud Engineer. He has experience building Application Development, Infrastructure, and AI-based architectures using many different OSS and Non-OSS based technologies. In addition to his work at Pluralsight, he is always trying to educate customers about how to get started in the cloud with his many blogs and videos. He is currently working as a Cloud Solution Architect for Microsoft designing solution
... mores using his many areas of experience.
James Bannan is a consultant based in Melbourne, Australia. He has worked in the IT industry for over 18 years and has worked in a variety of roles, from helpdesk to systems administration and now as a consultant. He is a published author, having written many articles for both print and online publications as well as a book on System Center Configuration Manager. James is an experienced public speaker and was awarded the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award from Microsoft for eight years in a
... morerow. He has worked in all aspects of Microsoft technology from end-user computing to on-premises datacenters, but now spends all his time working with Microsoft Azure, deploying and automating solutions for customers across a wide range of industries from government and retail to higher education. When not focusing on IT, James enjoys music and reading, spending as much time as possible with his wife and two daughters and taking the family dog Lexi to the beach.
John Savill is an 11-time MVP, and he holds many Microsoft certifications including Azure Infrastructure and Azure Architecture specialist. John is the author of the popular original FAQ for Windows and posts numerous blogs to his https://savilltech.com site. John has written eight books on Microsoft technologies including Mastering Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Services and Mastering Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V.