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Aaron Powell is a Senior Developer and Web Technical Specialist with Readify in Sydney and IE UserAgent. While .NET might be his home his passion lies in the land of JavaScript. He believes that one day the machines will take over and be programmed in JavaScript so it’s time to learn it.
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VP of Engineering at ShareableInk.com and full stack developer with a bent toward front end stacks, especially Ruby on Rails, JS, CoffeeScript. A manager technologist who leads teams using Agile methodologies and prefers low ceremony technologies. ( ruby > C# > Java, coffeescript > JS, Agile > Traditional/Waterfall )
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Alan Stevens is the Winston Wolfe of software development. He solves problems. He is currently a partner at NerdHive Industries LLC in Knoxville, TN where he collaborates with clients to create solutions that delight users. He is also a jerk on Twitter.
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Alex has been developing web apps for 15 years. In that time he has won a Webby, ranked third (briefly) on Project Euler, designed a content management system still in use by Fortune 500 companies and major non-profit organizations, and gotten paid to develop in at least 10 different languages. A native and current Knoxvillian, he works remotely for Carbon Five in San Francisco.
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Alex is speaker and writer who's passionate about looking beyond the code to build great software. In addition to founding Inedo – the makers of BuildMaster, the popular DevOps platform – Alex also started The Daily WTF, a fun site dedicated to building software the wrong way.
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Andy Leonard is CSO of Linchpin People, an SSIS Trainer and Consultant, SQL Server database and Integration Services developer, SQL Server data warehouse developer, community mentor, blogger, and engineer. He is a co-author of SSIS Design Patterns (Apress, 2012). His background includes VB and web application architecture and development; and SQL Server 2000-2012.
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Ben is a partner and senior software engineer at Firefly Logic, a Nashville based software solutions company. A native of England, Ben moved to the States in 1995 after graduating from Royal Holloway, University of London, with a degree in computer science. Ben is a passionate technologist who has frequent “genius” ideas and loves the social aspects of software development. You can find Ben on Twitter (@ben_henderson), app.net (@benhenderson), and learn more about Firefly Logic at: www.fireflylogic.com.
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Disciple of Jesus, husband of Crystal, father of Phoenix and Hunter, software developer, outdoorsman...that's about all I have time for.
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Braden Powers is the owner of Eccra Solutions, LLC. and is based out of Cincinnati. His company specializes in mobile applications that target iOS and Android devices for a variety of clients. Braden has 15 years of experience in the IT industry developing in a plethora of different languages and for a variety of clients from fortune 50 to startups. When not coding, he is either attending a meet up or attending to his 5 children.
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Brent is a software developer who has been working with Microsoft technologies since 2004. His interests include client and mobile application development and user experience design with a recent emphasis on Windows 8 and Windows Phone. Other platforms he has worked with include WPF, Silverlight, Windows Forms, and iOS. He is an Evangelist working for Infragistics with a focus on mobile platforms. He has a passion for making people’s experiences with software the best that they can possibly be. Brent is the author of Designing for Windows 8, a Windows 8 design primer, available now from Apress.
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Brian Friesen has been pretending to be a developer for the last 6 years and lives in constant fear of being found out. As an occasional public speaker, he prefers to talk about things that are slightly out in left field. This explains why some people know him as "the regex guy" or "the monad guy". Seriously, who would choose those labels? Anyway, when he's not writing code, he's probably thinking about it, or, if he's sleeping, dreaming about it. In the rare case that no part of his mind is occupied by something vaguely code-related, he is probably playing with his kids or spending quality time with his wife near Detroit, where he has lived since 2012, when he took a job with the best company he has ever worked for, Quicken Loans. He is also a raging smart-alec.
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Brian H. Prince is the Chief Technical Cloud Evangelist for Microsoft, based in the US.
He gets super excited whenever he talks about technology, especially cloud computing, patterns, and practices. His job is to help customers strategically leverage technology, and help them bring their architecture to a super level.
In a past life Brian was a part of super startups, super marketing firms, and super consulting firms. Much of his super architecture background includes building super scalable applications, application integration, and award winning web applications. All of them were super.
Further, he is a co-founder of the non-profit organization CodeMash (www.codemash.org). He speaks at various international technology conferences. He only wishes his job didn’t require him to say ‘super’ so much.
Brian is the co-author of “Azure in Action”, published by Manning Press.
Brian holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science and Physics from Capital University, Columbus, Ohio. He is also a zealous gamer. For example, he is a huge fan of Fallout 3, Portal 2, and pretty much every other game he plays.
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Brian Sullivan is a senior consultant for Improving Enterprises in Dallas. He got his start in programming maintaining legacy mainframe applications in COBOL at a large trucking company, but quickly realized he needed to find a more productive environment in order to stay sane. He jumped at the opportunity to help transition some of those COBOL applications to .NET, and he hasn’t looked back since. He has been working with Microsoft technologies for about 7 years, and is interested in increasing the exposure of agile techniques and methodologies in the Microsoft developer community. Brian is recipient of the Microsoft MVP award in ASP.NET and a graduate of Harding University.
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Burke Holland is a web developer who hangs out in Nashville, TN even though he doesn't really care for country music. He is a recovering Adobe Flex developer and current JavaScript / HTML5 fanatic working as a Developer Evangelist For Kendo UI. You can find him blogging for Kendo UI and on his personal blog A Shiny New Me. He hangs out on twitter as @burkeholland and avoids Facebook altogether. He has an obsession with Instagram and once updated everyone's last name in the corporate ERP database to "Holland". He is not a fan of SQL.
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Chris Gardner is the Senior Software Engineer and Architect for T & W Operations, Inc, and a Microsoft Certified Trainer Regional Lead. Tortured by years of contracts that valued buzzwords over results, Chris has developed a true passion for finding solutions that fit the problem, not the technology of the week. Chris received his B.S. in Mathematics and B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and is currently a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer, Information Technology Professional and Trainer.
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Chris blends the skills learned through his experience as a flight instructor, trained financial counselor, physics researcher, and software engineer to to enable himself and others to pick up and make practical use of technologies in solving business challenges. He is currently a Senior Architect at Cloudswell in Chattanooga, TN. He lives in the Chattanooga area with his wife and two children.
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Chris Price is a Sr. BI Consultant with Pragmatic Works based out of Tampa, FL. He has a B.S. in MIS and a MBA, both from the Univ. of South Florida. He began his career as a developer working his way into a software architect role before being bitten by the BI bug. His current focus is on ETL and Data Integration, Data Quality and MDM, SSAS, SharePoint and Big Data.
He regularly speaks at SQL Saturdays, Code Camps and other community events. He has authored multiple whitepapers and books while serving as technical editor for a range of BI topics.
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I am a software developer that got started in computers in 1996. Before that I was in the U.S. Navy for 6 years after high school.
When I started in computers I was programming in Pick Basic and it was crap. Then I converted to Microsoft using VB 5, then of course I moved on to VB 6. I got a great break in 2002 when I talked someone into letting me be their freelance web developer in ASP.Net 1.1 and C#. I didn't have a clue what I was doing, but they didn't know and I didn't bill them for at least half the hours. I got ramped up pretty quick mainly because I quit sleeping and was really working my butt off.
Now I have been doing C# and Asp webforms/MVC for the last 11 years and I love it. I have done the backend work building libs to get and save my data and that work is ok? I really like the UI stuff. I have been learning jQuery like a mofo. I am also digging the Backbone stuff not for the whole thing but really how it organizes my jQuery and makes it really easy to figure out.
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Daniel Mohl is a professional software engineer/architect whose interests include understanding the intricacies of various programming languages, enterprise application architecture, and how to bridge the gap between business and technology. He is an O'Reilly author, Microsoft MVP, C# and F# Insider, blogger, and speaker. You can follow him on twitter at www.twitter.com/dmohl. You can view his blog at blog.danielmohl.com.
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Daniel Nelson has been developing web apps in Rails since 2008 and is currently CTO at startup Populr.me. The disciplined approach to problem solving that comes with BDD and opinionated frameworks like Rails and AngularJS jives with his personality. He is enjoying the start-up life and working to become more involved in the tech community (both of which compete with his favorite activity: spending time with his wife and two children). When free time arises, he enjoys swimming, gardening, and one day he'll get back into studying Chinese. @bluejade Github: daniel-nelson
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Danny is a Software Engineer at InterKnowlogy in Carlsbad, CA. Danny began acquiring his expertise in software engineering and .NET at Neumont University in Salt Lake City, Utah where he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. Danny’s passion for technology has led him throughout the Microsoft Stack including WPF, Silverlight, WCF, Windows Phone, WinRT, and the Microsoft Surface. Danny has an expertise in NUI (The Natural User Interface) having built numerous multi-touch and gesture based interfaces for software applications across a broad spectrum of devices. Currently his passion includes building Metro/WinRT Applications for Windows 8 driven by gesture based interface with the Microsoft Kinect. Danny is a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer, obtaining certification in .NET 4. When not building beautiful software, Danny is an outdoorsman and family man. He loves to camp, hike and mountain bike.
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Dave Baskin is a senior consultant with Wintellect. He has worked with the Microsoft Web stack for many years and brings a broad range of experience to enterprise application development.
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Dave has worked in IT in one role or another for almost 20 years. He currently serves as the CTO of a great company in Franklin, TN and gets to work with a fantastic team of talented people. He loves to eat, he loves to cook, and loves spending time with his wife and three kids.
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David is a father, geek, musician, and software developer living in the Nashville, TN area. He has spent the last several years building high-performance, scalable social media software. David is passionate about software craftsmanship, user experience, music, and bacon. David currently serves as president for the Nashville .NET User Group.
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David Ruttka has been making computers do things since he first saw King's Quest on a 286 PC in the mid-80's, but he turned it into a career just over a decade ago. The majority of his experience is on the Microsoft stack, primarily using C# and the .NET Framework. More recently, he has been exploring JavaScript and Ruby. When he isn't coding, David enjoys spending time with his family, watching hockey, and playing the occasional video game.
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David C. Shepherd is a software engineering researcher and research area coordinator with ABB, Inc. based in Raleigh, N.C. While working with ABB's Software Engineering Group he looks into improving developer productivity and increasing software quality. While he is a researcher, and thus often found writing papers and attending research conferences, his industrial background compels him to actually implement his ideas as software tools. His current passion is creating better search tools for developers as the project lead for Sando, an open source code search tool and Visual Studio extension.
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Derik Whittaker is a Software Architect who specializes in all things .Net. Derik has been building enterprise systems on top of the .Net technology stack for over 12 years and along the way has picked up a thing or two about how to create killer systems. During his 12 year career Derik has worked in many different industries ranging from Marking, Healthcare, Retail, Insurance, Automotive and Online Entertainment. Currently Derik is working for a Marking startup (3 Birds Marking) in Chapel Hill North Carolina helping them build out a best of breed technology solution which will enable their users to create world class marking campaigns.
Derik believes that the job of a developer is more than just turning syntax into working 1’s and 0’s. He believes that our job is to produce a system which gets out of the users way and allows them to do their job better.
Derik has been awarded the Microsoft MVP in C# for the past 5 years. Along with being an MVP he is also a member of the ASPInsiders group. Derik is a community leader, helping to organize events such as Chicago Codeapalooza, Chicago Code Camp and the Raleigh Code Camp. He is also a blogger at Devlicio.us and runs the popular .Net screen casting site Dimecasts.net. Outside of his day job you can find Derik hanging out with his beautiful wife Tiffany and his 2 awesome boys Brendan and Ryan
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Devin Rader spends his day’s extolling the virtues of Twilio (www.twilio.com), the amazingly simple cloud communication platform. Most days he can be found showing developers how easy it is to add the ability to send and receive text messages and make and receive voice and VOIP communication to their apps.
Before his current gig, he worked at Infragistics, a world leader on .NET user interface controls where he focused on delivering great user experiences to developers using their controls.
Over the past decade he's done work on virtually all of the .NET platforms and is now as an evangelist focused on the .NET community, he is lucky enough to get to work with all of them on a regular basis.
As a co-founder of the St. Louis .NET User Group, a current board member of the Central New Jersey .NET User Group and a former INETA board member, he's an active supporter of the .NET developer community. He's also the co-author or technical editor of numerous books on .NET including Wrox's Professional Silverlight 4 and Wrox's Professional ASP.NET 4.
Follow Devin on Twitter @devinrader
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Omar Villarreal is a principal consultant at Gyroscopic Solutions, Inc. and is based in the Dallas, TX metro area. Omar enjoys helping software development teams improve their processes and procedures for Application Lifecycle Management using formal methodologies like Scrum as well as providing custom solutions that help clients maximize their return on their investment in Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management tools. He is also passionate about helping development teams improve the quality of code produced every day through the implementation of processes and tools; Omar has been an Application Lifecycle Management consultant since late 2004, working with the early beta releases of Visual Studio Team System.Omar is President of the Dallas .Net Users Group and has organized two Code Camps in Dallas, Tx. Omar speaks about Visual Studio ALM Tools at regional and local community events and when there is none of that going on, he rides his mountain bike at different off-road trails in the Dallas/Fort-Worth area.
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Don Miller is the President and Principal Consultant of GroundSpeed™. He has over 20 years of professional experience in addition to the sale of his first program (spaghetti code) at the age of 14. His broad range of experience makes him very relatable to programmers and system engineers. He is a crazed social networker within the nerd community, one of the founding partners of Seed Coworking in Toledo, and teaches iOS Application development at the University of Toledo. You can find him online easily with Twitter or LinkedIn.
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Douglas Starnes is an application developer in the Institute for Intelligent Systems at The University of Memphis where he is also a masters candidate in management information systems. One of the co-directors of the Memphis Python User Group, Douglas is a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups in Memphis and the surrounding area. He has also been a speaker in the past year at DevLink 2012 and PyArkansas 2012. A supporter of the Memphis tech community, he is a founding board member of GeekMemphis and an organizer of the local tech conference TechCamp Memphis. Douglas also participates in the startup community in Memphis in addition to being a music technologist, re-aspiring triathlete and avid Lego collector.
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Elijah Manor is a Christian and a family man. He is the President of Manorism, Inc., a PluralSight Author, and focuses on providing training and consulting in front-end web development. He is a Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft ASP.NET MVP, ASPInsider, and IE userAgent and enjoys blogging (http://elijahmanor.com), tweeting (@elijahmanor), and speaking about the things he learns.
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Eric is the owner of Sarnata Corporation a company which provides .NET and PHP programming services to large and small businesses. Eric has over 15 years of professional software development experience working with .NET, C#, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, SQL Server, and MySQL. Eric is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer - .NET 4.5 Web Apps. Eric has written applications which range from sophisticated common code libraries for MVC apps to semantic search engines to faxed image manipulation software. Eric has spoken at .NET user groups, GiveCamps and is past speaker at DevLink.
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Esteban Garcia is a software architect with a passion for ALM, TFS, and Scrum. He is a Solutions Architect and ALM Consultant at AgileThought, Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP, ALM Ranger, Pluralsight author Telerik Insider, and president of ONETUG (Orlando .NET User Group).
He has over 15 years of professional experience in software development, working in all phases of distributed object oriented enterprise application development and design using Microsoft technologies. Esteban has a BS degree in Computer Engineering with an emphasis in software design from the University of Central Florida.
You can follow his blog at http://www.almguide.com and follow him on Twitter:@EstebanFGarcia.
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Husband, Technologist, Entrepreneur, GitHubber, Hacker and General Human. Searching for the meaning of life through science and technology.
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I work for the Centare Group in Chicago, IL as a Staff Consultant helping deliver client solutions. As part of my job I focus primarily on web and client solutions involving the .NET stack. I am also very passionate about mobile and have exposure to three of the four major platforms (Apple, Microsoft, and Google). In my free time, I enjoy running, traveling, Halo, and Anime. Yorushiku
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Jason Follas is an Architect for Perficient, helping clients located in the greater Detroit region (including Toledo, where he lives and leads the Northwest Ohio .NET User Group). For nearly two decades now, he has created interesting solutions using Microsoft technologies, including an aircraft load planning system used by an air freight company, geospatial web applications, and material blend optimization software.
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Solving real human problems is my primary focus as a developer. As a diabetic, I understand the daily struggle of living with a chronic condition, and I'm working hard to develop a way to manage our condition that is usable regardless of the socio-economic factors of the person using it. Without a need for accounts and interacting with my fellow users in contexts that are available and understandable to them, Sucratrend (www.sucratrend.com) is my life's work personified.
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Jay is a code wrangler, software consultant, and president of Arana Software. He has been developing on the web for over 15 years, since the Blink tag lured him away from Visual Basic 3 in 1995. With a career focus on user experience, he has a passion for practices that improve quality and usability, and is an expert in continuous integration and in performance analysis and optimization. Jay is also an active contributor and speaker in the developer community, a Microsoft MVP in C#, ASPInsider, INETA Mentor, and an organizer of many conferences and user groups in the Ann Arbor area.
Originally from Rochester, New York, he and his wife, Amy, have lived in Michigan since 2003. They like Michigan, but still consider themselves tourists, and probably always will.
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Ultra passionate. That’s how Jeff Blankenburg describes his relationship with technology. Over the past 10 years, Jeff has enthusiastically applied his technical expertise to build industry-changing websites and marketing efforts for mega brands including Victoria’s Secret, Abercrombie & Fitch, Ford Motor Company, Sony, and several pharmaceutical companies. He’s especially proficient in user interface design, web standards and mobile application development. In addition to his developer evangelist role for Microsoft, Jeff is the author of Migrating to Windows Phone, and serves as an organizer for the CodeMash, Stir Trek, and M3 conferences. On the academic front, Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Ohio’s Bowling Green State University.
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A mild mannered developer by day and a hopeless technology junky by night. Jeff focuses on web development and is quite obsessed with agile processes and deployment automation. He constantly strives to learn how new technologies can help solve real world problems.
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Jeff Strauss is a developer, analyst, and attorney, but first and foremost, a consultant. Jeff entered the software industry professionally after having practiced law with a private firm in St. Louis for several years. Although he enjoyed the counseling aspect of his original career, his lifelong passion for technology drew him back into the fold, where he has been happy ever since. For his day job, Jeff works with a team of passionate technology professionals at ArchitectNow.
With a background in both business and technology, Jeff's biggest focus is on consumer product development, working with technology entrepreneurs, start-ups, and small businesses.
When not busy playing with his new son or jamming with his local band, Jeff has served the past four years on the board of directors of the St. Louis Days of .NET Conference and the St. Louis .NET User Group. As a lover of community events, he speaks on both technology and business-oriented topics at user groups and professional conferences throughout the Midwest.
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Jennifer Marsman is a Principal Developer Evangelist in Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Evangelism group, where she educates developers on Microsoft’s new technologies. In this role, Jennifer is a frequent speaker at software development conferences across the United States. In 2009, Jennifer was chosen as "Techie whose innovation will have the biggest impact" by X-OLOGY for her work with GiveCamps, a weekend-long event where developers code for charity. She has also received many honors from Microsoft, including the Central Region Top Contributor Award, Heartland District Top Contributor Award, DPE Community Evangelist Award, CPE Champion Award, MSUS Diversity & Inclusion Award, and Gold Club. Prior to becoming a Developer Evangelist, Jennifer was a software developer in Microsoft’s Natural Interactive Services division. In this role, she earned two patents for her work in search and data mining algorithms. Jennifer has also held positions with Ford Motor Company, National Instruments, and Soar Technology. Jennifer holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering and Master’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her graduate work specialized in artificial intelligence and computational theory. Jennifer blogs at http://blogs.msdn.com/jennifer and tweets at http://twitter.com/jennifermarsman.
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Jeremiah Peschka solves data problems using SQL Server, Hadoop, and other non-relational tools. He has over a decade of experience with performance tuning and scalability. Jeremiah is a Microsoft MVP; MCITP for SQL Server development and administration; and a Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop. He's also a big fan of coffee.
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Jeremy Likness is a 3 year Microsoft MVP and was named Silverlight MVP of the Year in 2010. He is a principal consultant for Wintellect, LLC and has spent the past 15 years building web-based commercial solutions using the Microsoft technology stack. He has 20 years of experience developing enterprise applications across multiple verticals including insurance, health and wellness, financial, supply chain management, and mobility. He is the author of Building Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML and Designing Silverlight Business Applications.
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Jerrel is a software craftsman specializing in Microsoft technologies. He's developed .NET projects spanning from traditional desktop to web and mobile apps. He's a big proponent of agile development and spends his time working with and teaching developers who want to learn to build software more effectively. He's literally written the the book about agile .NET development (Pro Agile .NET Development with SCRUM, Apress, 2011). When he's not being a developer he invests his time and energy into his family, fishing, chess, Cleveland sports teams and gaming. You can read Jerrel's ramblings at www.jerrelblankenship.com.
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Jesse Liberty is a Technical Evangelist for Telerik, an author and he creates courses for Pluralsight. Liberty hosts the popular Yet Another Podcast and his blog is required reading. He was a Senior Evangelist for Microsoft, a Microsoft MVP, Distinguished Software Engineer at AT&T; Software Architect for PBS and Vice President of Information Technology at Citibank. Jesse can be followed on twitter at @JesseLiberty
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Jim Cowart is a web developer, tragically geeky about JavaScript, HTML5, open source, hybrid mobile development...but he's not a fan of lists, so we'll stop there. Having journeyed through Cold Fusion, an obscure proprietary JavaScript BI implementation, C#, a smidgeon of Erlang (<3 <3 <3) and even spent some time as a data warehouse architect and developer (apparently he lied to us about not liking lists), he's most passionate about connecting with other developers – learning, sharing and promoting patterns and ideas that will make development more productive, enjoyable and empowering. Jim lives in Chattanooga with his wife and two sons, and will be happy to make epic restaurant recommendations to any devLink attendees. He works for Telerik as a Developer Advocate for Icenium, and you can follow him on twitter - @ifandelse.
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Joe began his love of programming on an Apple III in BASIC. Although his preferred language is javascript, he has worked professionally with just about every major Microsoft language. He is currently a front end developer for Domo Inc. Joe has always had a strong interest in education, and has worked both full and part time as a technical teacher for over ten years. He is a frequent blogger and speaker, the curator of testdrivenjs.com, and a panelist on the JavaScript Jabber podcast (http://javascriptjabber.com/) He can be found at @josepheames
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Joe Kuemerle is a developer and speaker in the Cleveland, OH area specializing in .NET development, security, database and application lifecycle topics. He is currently a Senior Developer at Gibraltar Software ( www.gibraltarsoftware.com ). Joe is active in the technical community as well as a speaker at local, regional and national events. Joe blogs at www.kuemerle.com and is on Twitter as @jkuemerle.
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Joe is a principal and founder at Logichaus, a software consultancy specializing in Ruby, Rails and iOS development. He's written two books for the Pragmatic Bookshelf: Deploying With JRuby and The Healthy Programmer. Joe also maintains numerous open source projects including Ruleby, guard-jruby-rspec, and he is a contributor to the Torquebox Application Server.
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Joel Cochran is a Manager Consultant with Sogeti, an international consulting firm. He is a Microsoft Expression Blend MVP, an ASPInsider, and is currently serving as the INETA Mentor for Virginia. Joel is the author of "Expression Blend in Action" and co-author of "Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript", both by Manning Publications, as well as "The Practical MVVM Manifesto" (http://practicalmvvm.com). A technology generalist, he works with technologies such as Windows 8, ASP.NET MVC4, SQL Server, SSIS, Azure, and much more. His languages of choice are C# and JavaScript. He spends an inordinate amount of time on Twitter (@joelcochran) and far less time on his blog http://joelcochran.com.
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Joe is a professional developer with a commitment to well-crafted, test driven code. He has applied his test driving techniques in a wide range of languages, technologies, and organizational structures. He currently rests his keyboard at Credit Suisse programming in C#, Ruby, Java and whatever else he can get his hands on.
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Since its inception, Joe Webb has served as Chief Operating Manager for WebbTech Solutions, a Nashville-based consulting company. He has over 17 years of industry experience and has consulted extensively with companies in the areas of business process analysis and improvements, database design and architecture, software development, and technical training.
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John K. Paul is the lead architect of Conde Nast's platform engineering team and former lead front end software engineer at TheLadders.com. He is a contributor to numerous open source projects including learn.jquery.com. He has spoken to various startups around NYC about front end development, and scalable engineering practices, in particular, unit testing javascript. Additionally, he has taught Javascript and jQuery fundamentals to teams throughout the NYC area.
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John Petersen has been developing software for over 20 years. It all started when, as a staff accountant, he was asked to get involved in a system upgrade to replace an old IBM Series 1 computer (about the size of a large refrigerator!). Those first programs were written in Clipper, summer 87. Since that time, tools included dBase, FoxBase, Visual FoxPro and Visual Basic. An early adopter of .NET, he then decided to go to law school. After practicing law for a few years, John realized that technology was a lot more interesting than the law. Today, John focuses on ASP.NET development and is having more fun than ever solving for clients. John is a Practice Director for Custom Application Development at Neudesic, a Microsoft Gold Partner and the Trusted Technology Partner in Business Innovation. A 9 time recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional Award, John is a current ASP.NET/IIS MVP. John is also an ASP Insider and is the INETA Mentor for PA and WV. John is the author of several books and is a frequent contributor to Code Magazine and DevConnections Magazines. John holds a BS in Business Administration from Mansfield University, an MBA in Information Systems from St. Joseph’s University and a JD from the Rutgers School of Law – Camden
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I am a web developer focusing mostly on JavaScript, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, and C#. I believe that you cannot ever stop learning which is why I stay active in the .NET world attending User Groups, blogging for http://FreshBrewedCode.com, http://jcreamerlive.com, http://net.tutsplus.com/author/jonathan-creamer/, and http://tech.pro/jonathancreamer/blog and scouring Twitter and the interwebs for as much knowledge I can squeeze into my brain. I work at appendTo and am having a great time developing front end applications in jQuery and JavaScript. I am also an IE userAgent Please feel free to contact me, I love meeting other devs who are passionate about what they do.
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Shortly after it arrived at his home in 1993, Jordan began disassembling his first computer - his mother was not happy. He quickly moved from hardware into programming, starting with BASIC. He has written code in hordes of languages for everything from IBM mainframes to TI calculators and for relational to XML databases. Jordan's experience includes multiple startups, companies large and small, and one large university. He is a contributor on a few open source projects and regularly participates in community events such as local user groups, barcamps, and hackathons. The primary focus of Jordan's work for over 10 years has been on utilizing and evangelizing JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to bring web applications into competition with their desktop rivals. In his down time he enjoys puzzles of all sorts and board games.
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Josh is a passionate software craftsman with nearly 10 years of professional software development experience. He has worked in a variety of industries creating solutions for student loans, health care, and political campaign management. Josh's primary focus is on combining Microsoft and Open Source web technologies to deliver a rich user experience in the browser and mobile devices. He believes the future of computing resides in distributed services, and works to build web applications that are easy to deploy and scale.
Besides the technology, Josh is also very passionate about the business of building software. He is an advocate for strong engineering practices such as Test Driven Development and Automated Acceptance Testing. He actively works to apply Lean and Agile principles in order to improve the quality and delivery of valuable software to the customer.
When he isn't plugging away on his computer, Josh enjoys spending time with his wife and three children, hiking, boating, and occasionally going out with the guys for a little target practice.
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Keith Beckman, an independent software development and architecture consultant, has been writing software for the Web, Windows and whatever for the past 11 years. A converted Rubyist after years of working solely on the Microsoft stack, Keith is grateful for the Open Source community and is passionate about contributing. He believes in using the best technology and language for the job, attempts to automate everything, refactors often and drives development by writing tests – lots of them. Keith blogs for street cred at http://coding4streetcred.com/blog and tweets at @code4streetcred.
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Kevin is a SQL Server expert, working exclusively with the product since v6.5. With over 20 years of database experience and 40000+ man hours of SQL Server engine experience, he holds many related certifications, is an MCT and was a SQL Server MVP from 2007 to 2012. Kevin teaches occasionally and has been a very successful independent consultant for almost 15 years. His passion is the relational engine, especially designing, building, analyzing and tuning high-performance database applications.
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Kevin Griffin has been working as a professional developer since 2006, where his first job was working on components for the Symantec security suites. Kevin is the owner of Griffin Consulting, Inc, CTO of Winsitter, and always looking for new challenges. As an Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and ASPInsider, Kevin spends a lot of time teaching and mentoring developers to learn new technologies and to be better developers. Over three years ago, Kevin started the Hampton Roads .NET Users Group. He serves as the Director of Membership for INETA. You can find Kevin speaking at conferences, code camps, and user groups across the country.
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Over the past 15 years, Kevin Grossnicklaus has established himself as a go-to expert and a local and regional community leader for the software development industry. Prior to founding ArchitectNow in 2009, Kevin spent over a decade as the Chief Architect and Practice Leader for a large St. Louis IT firm. He also spent many years as an instructor at Washington University’s Center for the Application of Information Technology (CAIT) where he taught continuing education courses on a wide array of development technologies.
Since 2009, Kevin has been recognized annually as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). This prestigious award puts Kevin in the company of just over 4,000 technology professionals worldwide and recognizes his commitment to technology and working to further the understanding of software development within the region.
Originally from the small town of Shelby in the plains of central Nebraska, Kevin moved to Missouri to attend the University of Missouri – Rolla (now called the Missouri School of Science and Technology). After moving to St. Louis and starting a family in 1998, Kevin has been heavily involved in the Midwest development community and has traveled the world as a consultant and a trainer. Kevin has also contributed to a number of books in the Microsoft .NET development space, most recently as a contributing-author of the popular Real World .NET, C#, and Silverlight: Indispensible Experiences from 15 MVPs.
Outside of technology, Kevin has spent years playing his Telecaster in bands throughout the St. Louis area and, when not on stage, can be found traveling with his family or in a stream with a fly rod in his hands.
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Kevin Hazzard is a consultant, author and Microsoft Windows Azure MVP from the Richmond, Virginia. He serves as a Director at CapTech Consulting, a technology consulting firm of 400+ where he designs and implements large-scale SQL Server databases and .NET services for Fortune 500 clients, focusing on the health care, retail, manufacturing and communication industries. Kevin is the author of Metaprogramming in .NET by Manning, a book that concerns the value of adaptable software design. He serves as an elected School Board member and gives most of his free time to supporting teachers and promoting public education.
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Lauren has been a software developer for 15 years. In this time, she has contributed to network security, web, and mobile applications. She has cowritten a book about Agile development using the Yii PHP framework. Last year she spoke about JavaScript mobile development at Coder Faire in Nashville. Currently she runs a small software consultancy in Franklin, TN.
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Lee has been programming professionally for more than a decade and currently works as a Practice Director with AdventureTech. He speaks regionally about software development practices and has mentored teams on improving their approach to lean software development through achieving technical proficiency. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, one of the leaders of the Kansas City .Net User Group, and serves as the Regional Mentor for .Net user groups in Kansas and Missouri.
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Louis has been in the IT industry for 18 years as a corporate database developer and architect. He has been a Microsoft MVP for 9 years and has written 5 books on database design. Currently serves as the Data Architect for the Christian Broadcasting Network supporting offices in Virginia Beach, Virginia and Nashville, Tennessee. For more information please visit drsql.org
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Mark Stafford has a passion for data and APIs. He is currently a program manager at Microsoft contributing to the future of the OData protocol. Before that, Mark worked on open sourcing the Entity Framework.
Mark has a unique perspective on data access technologies given his many years of pre-Microsoft experience building and deploying real-world applications, managing developers and directing a business intelligence team.
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I've been a web developer since 2005 starting off using Asp.Net, and now focusing on more front end development using HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript. I also create responsive websites using a mobile first design.
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Often going by the nickname “Hondo”, I am a designer / developer with a passion for simplicity. I enjoy working across the entire range of user experience from conception and design to efficient development during implementation.
I have been helping companies craft solutions to their online interaction challenges for over ten years. I have worked with companies large and small such as Macy’s, McLaren, Limited Brands, Rue La La and EH Publishing.
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Matt is a Principal Program Manager on the HDInsight team at Microsoft focused on building tools to make developers’ lives easier using Hadoop to process big data. Matt has been at Microsoft for 6 years working on developer tooling for distributed systems and cloud applications as well as technical evangelism.
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Michael is a passionate developer who has written code for web, desktop, mobile, and games. With his co-founders at FuncWorks he hosts GameMarx, a weekly podcast for indie and hobby level game developers. In the past GameMarx covered news and reviews of Xbox Live Indie Games (XBLIG) and continues to support XBLIG by running XboxIndies.com – a central source for XBLIG news and reviews from more than 10 gaming websites and a full database of all XBLIG games. FuncWorks is currently working on games targeting the Xbox and PC platforms.
Michael has been a regular speaker at developer conferences and user groups, and has been awarded Microsoft MVP twice. He is the founder of CodeStock, an annual developers conference in Knoxville,TN and a co-founder of the Technology Cooperative to create a technology-focused community providing technology access and awareness to all. Proud father of three amazing daughters, Rachel, Hannah, and Jasmine. Loving husband to Cicelie who inflates and pops his ego as necessary.
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Michael Crump is a Microsoft MVP, INETA Community Champion, and an author of several .NET Framework eBooks. He speaks at a variety of conferences and has written dozens of articles on .NET development. He currently works at Telerik with a focus on our XAML control suite. You can follow him on Twitter at mbcrump or keep up with his blog by visiting michaelcrump.net.
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Michael Eaton has been a software developer since the early 90's, but left the so-called security of a "real job" for the freedom and flexibility of independence in 2001. Since then, he has focused on client-based technologies and has worked with clients throughout the mid-west. Michael speaks throughout the United States at various regional events, user groups and conferences sharing his love of client development to other developers. Michael runs the Kalamazoo X Conference and is a C# MVP. When not working on projects or spending time with his family, he will most likely be found reading, training for the GORUCK Challenge or honing his marksmanship skills on the pistol range.
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Michael Johnson is a senior software developer at SSW Holding Company, Inc. in Fort Smith, AR. Michael has over 12 years of experience developing desktop applications, websites, and services using Microsoft technologies. Michael is also involved in the .NET community and is part of the Fort Smith .NET User Group leadership.
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Michael Wiley is a Premier Field Engineer with Microsoft who specializes in Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Powershell, and Windows troubleshooting. He is a regular technical presenter at local and regional events. Prior to working with Microsoft, Michael was a Microsoft MVP (VB.Net) and a software engineer who delivered solutions in a variety of markets including healthcare, government, financial services, and information management. He is heavily involved in the Developer community and was the Founder and President of the Little Rock .NET User Group for three years, Additionally, he was a cofounder of the Little Rock Tech Expo events, and a former INETA Board Member. In his spare time Michael enjoys hiking, scuba diving, and creating haunted houses.
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Mickey Gousset is a Principal Consultant for Infront Consulting Group, a consulting company focused on the Microsoft System Center family of products. He focuses mainly on System Center Operations Manager, Service Manager, and Orchestrator. He is a Microsoft ALM MVP, a Microsoft Certified Professional, and lead author of several books, including "Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012" from Wrox Publishing. Mickey runs ALM Rocks! (http://almrocks.com), a community site devoted to Visual Studio and TFS. He speaks on ALM, Visual Studio, TFS, and System Center topics at various user groups, code camps, and conferences around the world.
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Husband, Father, Entrepreneur & Polyglot Technologist. Founder & CEO of @appendTo. Passionate about Virtual Working, HTML5, JS, Entrepreneurship, Freedom
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Mitchel Sellers specializes in software development using Microsoft technologies. As the CEO of IowaComputerGurus Inc., he works with small and large companies worldwide. Mitchel prides himself on delivering cost-effective solutions that include proper architecture, performance, and stability.
He is a Microsoft C# MVP, a Microsoft Certified Professional, and the author of "Professional DotNetNuke Module Programming" (Wrox Press, 2009). Mitchel frequently writes technical articles for online and print publications including SQL Server magazine and he regularly speaks to user groups and conferences.
In addition, Mitchel is a firm believer in enhancing the greater development community. He frequently answers questions on community forums such as StackOverflow and MSDN. He is also a DotNetNuke Core Team member as well as an active participant in the .NET and DotNetNuke development communities.
To obtain additional information on Mitchel’s professional experience, certifications, and publications refer to his resume at MitchelSellers.com or his Microsoft MVP profile.
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Nathan Honeycutt is a software developer with over 16 years of experience writing professional software, much of it using the .NET stack. He has spent the last couple of years focused on web application development for the banking industry. He has also written software for the defense, law enforcement, and medical industries. When not writing code, you will likely find Nathan in his workshop, turning small pieces of wood into archaic writing implements.
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Ondrej Balas is the owner of UseTech Design, a small .NET-focused development company based in Troy, MI. He became interested in programming at a young age, and has been developing professionally for over 10 years now. Most of the work he does is in creating tools to support the analysis of large quantities of data.
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Patrick currently works as a technical instructor for Sencha, certified to teach both the ExtJS and Sencha Touch 5-day Advanced Fast Track classes. He has been involved in server-side web development since 1997, and software development since 1989. He started programming BASIC in middle school, and since then has suffered through x86 assembler, Pascal, C, C++, and C# (among many other languages). He has also worked as a database consultant specializing in Teradata and Microsoft SQL Server. In 2009, one of his iOS apps was briefly a #3 Hot New Game in the Apple App Store. More recently, he has been specializing in Javascript-related technologies such as Sencha, Node.js, hybrid mobile app development, and Coffeescript. Past speaking engagements include SenchaCon, where he led the day-long Mobile Bootcamp. Past consulting clients include AT&T, Auspex, and the US Air Force.
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An international speaker, Microsoft MVP, MCSD, CSM, and CSP, and a passionate member of the developer community, Phil Japikse has been working with .Net since the first betas, developing software for over 20 years, and heavily involved in the agile community since 2005. Phil works as a Senior Developer Evangelist for Telerik's RadControls for Windows 8 as well as the Just family of products (JustCode, JustMock, JustTrace, and JustDecompile), and serves as the Lead Director for the Cincinnati .Net User’s Group and the Cincinnati Software Architect Group, co-hosts the Hallway Conversations podcast (www.hallwayconversations.com), and founded Agile Conferences, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to advancing agile in all aspects of software development. Phil also serves as Cub Scout Committee Chair for his sons’ Cub Scout Pack, volunteers for the National Ski Patrol, and is a recently retired Firefighter/Paramedic. You can follow Phil on twitter via www.twitter.com/skimedic and read his blog at www.skimedic.com/blog.
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Robert Boedigheimer works for Schwans Shared Services, LLC providing business solutions with web technologies and leads Robert Boedigheimer Consulting, LLC. Robert has been designing and developing web sites for the past 18 years including the early days of ASP and ASP.NET. He is a columnist for aspalliance.com, a Pluralsight Author, an ASP.NET MVP, an author, and a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Robert has spoken at industry conferences including VSLive, Heartland Developers Conference, DevLink, DevTeach, Tulsa Tech Fest, DevWeek, DevReach, SDC, TechEd, DevConnections, AJAXWorld, and numerous national and international events.
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Robert C. Cain (http://arcanecode.com) is a Microsoft MVP in SQL Server, MCTS Certified in BI, and works as a Senior Consultant for Pragmatic Works. He is also a technical contributor to Plurasight Training, and co-author of 3 (soon to be 4) books. A popular speaker, Robert has presented at events such as the SQL PASS Summit, TechEd, SQL Rally, and numerous SQL Saturdays. Robert has over 25 years experience in the IT industry, working in a variety of fields ranging from manufacturing to telecommunications to nuclear power.
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Ryan Niemeyer has been working with web technologies for the better part of 14 years and lives just outside Madison, Wisconsin with his wife and two daughters. He is a Senior JavaScript Engineer at appendTo and in his spare time loves to participate in open source development. He is a member of the Knockout.js core team, has written several Knockout plugins, and blogs about his experiences at knockmeout.net.
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Sergey Barskiy is an architect with Tyler Technologies. He is a Microsoft MVP. He holds the following certifications: MCPD, MCTS, MCSD for .NET, MCAD for .NET, MCDBA, MCP. He has been working with Microsoft technologies for 15 years. He is a frequent speaker at various regional and national conferences, such as VS Live, DevLink, CodeStock, and Atlanta Code Camp as well as local user groups. He is one of the organizers of Atlanta Code Camp and Atlanta Windows Apps users group. He is also INETA membership mentor for the state of GA.
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Steven Swenson is a software developer for Rackspace in Blacksburg VA where he writes enterprise web applications and back-end services using c#, MVC 4, and SQL Server. Steve enjoys talking about programming and technology to students of all ages. He is a graduate of Radford University and can be found on twitter and github as @CTIGeek.
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I've been a developer since I discovered I could write apps for my calculator in middle school. Javascript is currently my language of choice, and when I'm not coding, you'll find me playing with my two young sons, hiking, camping, or doing anything else that gets me outside.
www.codethug.com
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Dr. Timothy Korson is a Certified Scrum Trainer with over 25 years of corporate IT experience.
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Will is a Principal Consultant with Infragistics, working to create large systems with many different organizations in a number of industries. Specializing in software and parallel architecture, Will works mostly in the .NET space but also works with a number of other technologies.
