Aaron is a co-founder of Pluralsight where he serves as the Chief Executive Officer. Aaron has authored numerous Pluralsight courses in the areas of Azure (cloud computing), WCF, Web services, XML and BizTalk Server. Over the years, Aaron has written numerous articles, whitepapers, and books and he's a contributing editor with MSDN Magazine where he authored The XML Files and Service Station columns for years. Aaron frequently speaks at industry events including TechEd, PDC, and VSLive!

Adam Grocholski is a Technical Evangelist and Partner at RBA Consulting in Minneapolis, MN as well as a Microsoft MVP in client application development. He can usually be found talking to anyone who will listen about Silverlight, Windows Phone, and Windows Azure.

Adam Tuliper is a Software Architect specializing in WCF, ASP.NET, SQL Server, MVC, C#, jQuery, and Silverlight with a strong emphasis on security. He is a top rated INETA Community Speaker, MSDN Magazine Author, national conference presenter, and regularly speaks at .NET User Groups and code camps.

Bob Beauchemin is a database-centric application practitioner and architect, instructor, course author, writer, and Developer Skills Partner for SQLskills. He is lead author of the books "A Developer's Guide to SQL Server 2005" and "A First Look at SQL Server 2005 For Developers", author of "Essential ADO.NET" and has written articles and whitepapers on SQL Server and other databases, database security, ADO.NET, and OLE DB for MSDN, SQL Server Magazine, and other publications.

Bret is a consultant based in Ramona, CA. Bret has over 20 years of experience in the IT field, and over a decade of experience as a trainer. He is a published author having contributed to multiple Syngress publications. He is also frequent speaker at regional events such as Code Camps and user groups. He focuses primarily on SQL Server, but is an expert in .NET development as well as SharePoint development, configuration and administration.

Brian is the Lead Software Engineer / Software Solutions Architect for Gayle Manufacturing Company, a steel manufacturing company, located in Nampa, Idaho. He has been developing professionally for over 10 years, and specializes in enterprise application development using a variety of Microsoft technologies, but focuses on WPF and Silverlight.

Clemens Vasters is a Software Architect and currently works for Microsoft where he helps shaping the technical strategy for the Windows Azure Service Bus. Clemens has a long history educating developers, having taught some of the first available .NET training courses for developers in Europe in early 2002.

Specializing in large-scale web system implementation, Craig spent his early career working with COM and C++, but since 2001 has been teaching and consulting full-time on the .NET platform in C#. Craig has written for MSDN magazine and spoken at conferences both nationally and internationally.

Craig Shoemaker is a software developer, podcaster, blogger and Product Guidance Manager for Infragistics. As host of the Polymorphic Podcast and Pixel8, Craig does what he loves most - making community contributions drawing the best out of industry luminaries. Craig is a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP, ASP Insider and regular guest speaker. Craig is co-author of the Wrox books "Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX", "Beginning ASP.NET Ajax" and a contributor to CoDe Magazine.

Dan is an independent consultant, author, and speaker. He likes data; pointy data, rectangular data, even data just lying around on the floor. He is a co-author of the book "A Developers Guide to SQL Server 2005". His articles have been published in MSDN Magazine and SQL Server Magazine and he has spoken at WinDev, Microsoft events, as well as to various developer groups.

Dan Wahlin founded The Wahlin Group (http://www.TheWahlinGroup.com) which specializes in ASP.NET, jQuery, Silverlight, and SharePoint consulting. He is a Microsoft Regional Director and has been awarded Microsoft's MVP award for ASP.NET, Connected Systems and Silverlight.

David has over 18 years of experience in software development, and as an Agile coach, he specializes in VSTS and Agile software development.

Donald Belcham is a senior software developer, independent contractor, and agile development expert who is a strong supporter of fundamental OO patterns and practices. Since 2007, he has been awarded the Microsoft MVP Award in C# and is a member of the JetBrains Academy.

Joe focuses on High Performance Computing and .NET languages. Joe has been specializing in Microsoft technologies since 1992, and is well-versed in Microsoft's High-Performance Computing initiative (HPC Server, Compute Cluster Server, MPI, MPI.NET, OpenMP, PFx), web technologies (ASP.NET and Ajax Extensions for ASP.NET), the desktop (WinForms), LINQ, .NET Framework, and its most popular languages (VC++, C#, F# and VB).

Dustin is a co-founder of Developer Advocates, a freelance evangelism for hire outfit. He is also a co-host on the MashThis.IO podcast. As a PostSharp MVP, he regularly attends user groups, code camps and other developer events to speak about aspect oriented programming and a range of other topics.

Eric is a Principal Technical Yahoo! at Yahoo!, Inc., where he is a lead developer on the Yahoo! Messenger team. Since graduating from Purdue in 1994, Eric has been building software applications on Windows platforms. Eric is interested in all aspects of the .NET framework, but specifically WPF, Silverlight, and other client technologies.

Fritz is a co-founder of Pluralsight where he serves as the Editor in Chief. Fritz is the author of the books 'Essential ASP.NET' and 'Essential ASP.NET 2.0' published by Addison Wesley. He is a regular speaker at industry conferences including the PDC, TechEd, and VSLive!. Microsoft recognizes Fritz as an MVP for his contributions to the ASP.NET community.

Glenn is a PM on the WCF team working on Microsoft’s future HTTP and REST stack. Prior to WCF he was a PM on the new Managed Extensibility Framework in .NET 4.0. He has experience both inside and outside Microsoft developing software solutions for ISVs and the enterprise. He has also been active in involving folks from the community in the development of software at Microsoft. This has included shipping products under open source licenses, as well as assisting other teams looking to do so.

Ian is an independent consultant, developer, speaker, and author. He has written books on Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Forms, and Visual Studio. He lives in London but can often be found on various developer mailing lists and newsgroups, where a popular sport is to see who can get him to write the longest email in reply to the shortest possible question.

James Kovacs is an independent architect, developer, trainer, and jack-of-all-trades specializing in agile development using the .NET Framework. He is passionate about helping developers create flexible software using test-driven development (TDD), unit testing, object-relational mapping, dependency injection, refactoring, continuous integration, and related techniques. He is a frequent speaker and author, and creator of psake, a PowerShell-based build automation tool, to save developers from XML Hell.

Janis Hall combines more than 15 years of technical knowledge with business acumen when working with organizations on needs analysis and delivery for custom support models, system integration and upgrades, process analysis, and the design and implementation of collaborative sites. In her previous work at Mindsharp, as a MetroStar Systems Instructor, and with Pluralsight Janis incorporates her passion for SharePoint and its countless benefits into viable, innovative classes that provide students with both technical know-how and concepts of functional benefits.

Jim Wilson is president of JW Hedgehog, Inc. (www.jwhh.com) a New Hampshire-based consulting firm specializing in solutions for the Android, iPhone, and Microsoft platforms. Jim has over 25 years of software engineering experience with the past 12 years heavily focused on creating mobile device and location-based solutions.

Joe has been a web developer for the last 13 of his 16+ years as a professional developer. He has specialized in front end and middle tier development . Although his greatest love is writing code, he also enjoys teaching and speaking about code.

John has been developing software for 20 years. Starting with a brief stint in Mumps and PowerBuilder, he has moved over to .NET since 2001. As the Founder and principal of Tritium Consulting, he has helped government agencies and international banks distribute and move their data around the world. Recently he has spent time developing ASP.NET MVC, WCF, VSTO solutions using VS Team System and Team Foundation Server.

John Papa is a former Sr Technical Evangelist for Microsoft on the Silverlight and Windows 8 teams where he hosted the popular Silverlight TV show. He has presented globally at keynotes and sessions for the Build, MIX, PDC, TechEd, VSLive and DevConnections events. John is a also columnist VS Magazine (Papa’s Perspective) and MSDN Magazine (Client Insights).

John Sonmez is a software developer for TrackAbout. He has a passion for technology and strongly believes that simple is best when it comes to programming. He maintains a blog dedicated to that theme at http://simpleprogrammer.com.

Jon Fancey is a co-founder of Affinus, a UK-based consultancy specializing in large-scale enterprise problems and solutions. Jon focuses on Microsoft’s server products, in particular BizTalk Server and SharePoint as well as web services and associated technologies. He has written for MSDN Magazine and Web site and talked at various Microsoft-focused conferences including TechEd. Jon is recognized by Microsoft as an MVP for his community contributions.

Jon is most at home spelunking, trying to figure out how things work from the inside out. Jon is the author of RESTful.NET from O'Reilly, as well as Essential ASP for Addison-Wesley, and was a co-author of Mastering Visual Studio.NET for O'Reilly. Jon's current major interest is helping people to understand the advantages of REST. He also sees a bright future for modeling as a way to build complex systems, using Oslo.

Julie Lerman is a Microsoft MVP, .NET mentor and consultant who lives in the hills of Vermont. You can find Julie presenting on data access and other Microsoft .NET topics at user groups and conferences around the world. Julie is the author of the highly acclaimed "Programming Entity Framework (with a second edition coming soon) and authors the MSDN Magazine Data Points column.

Julie Yack is a founding partner of Colorado Technology Consultants and a Dynamics CRM MVP. She is very involved in community efforts helping with developer user groups, mentoring up and coming technologists and advocating on behalf of small technology businesses with legislators in Washington DC.

Kate is the author of over a dozen books and speaks at DevTeach, TechEd (USA, Europe, Africa), and TechDays, among others. Kate is a C++ MVP, a founding sponsor of the Toronto .NET Users Group, the founder of the East of Toronto .NET Users group, a member of the INETA speakers bureau, and a member of adjunct faculty at Trent University in Peterborough. Since January 2002 she has been Microsoft Regional Director for Toronto and since January 2004 she has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional designation for Visual C++. In June 2005 she won the Regional Director of the year award.

Keith is a co-founder of Pluralsight where he serves as the Chief Technical Officer. Keith spends most of his time researching security techniques and technologies, and has spent a decade teaching and developing course material for professional software developers. Keith is a contributing editor for MSDN Magazine, and has authored several books for developers covering Windows security, ASP.NET, and COM. Keith has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for several years.

Kevin Kuebler is a Lead Software Developer and trainer for NimblePros, an agile consulting shop focused on software craftsmanship through their work, training, and tools designed to help developers deliver better software.

Liam is a freelance web developer, working mostly with Microsoft tools and technology, based in Brisbane Australia. Since 2006 he has been working with local startups, developing web-based products. Prior to his startup projects Liam spent 5 years in corporate IT.

Mario Hewardt is the author of Advanced Windows Debugging and Advanced .NET Debugging.

Matt is an independent consultant specializing in Microsoft .NET application design and development. As a writer Matt has contributed to several journals and magazines including MSDN Magazine where he currently authors the workflow content for the Foundations column. Matt regularly shares his love of technology by speaking at local, regional and international conferences such as Tech Ed. Microsoft has recognized Matt as an MVP for his community contributions around connected systems technology.

J. Michael Palermo IV is a Microsoft Developer Evangelist based out of Phoenix, AZ

Mike is an independent software consultant that develops for, writes about, and speaks on .NET technologies. He is particularly interested in runtime internals, multithreading, and speech-based application development. Mike is co-author of Win32 Multithreaded Programming and Debugging Windows Programs: Strategies, Tools, and Techniques for Visual C++ Programmers.

Niraj works as an Enterprise Architect for a Fortune 500 company and has an innate passion for building / studying software systems. He is also a manager/speaker at BDOTNET, India’s largest .NET user group.

Oliver Sturm is a consultant and trainer on topics around .NET software architecture. An Associate Consultant at thinktecture, he is also well known as an author of training classes and articles, an expert on programming languages and a Microsoft C# MVP, and for his experience in the specialized area of DevExpress UI components and frameworks.

Paul is an independent consultant and originally focused on technical software (robotics), then moved into (lower layers) network programming. Currently he sails the much murkier waters of Identity Management and Identity Federation, that way combining the interest in both programming and network infrastructure.

Phani Tipparaju is a Consulting Architect and co-founder of BrainScale consulting where he focuses on helping various customers with their architecture, design efforts and mentoring of developers.

Pinal Dave is a Microsoft Technology Evangelist (Database and BI). He is co-author of three SQL Server books - SQL Server Programming, SQL Wait Stats and SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers

Richard is a principal solutions architect for an industry-leading biotechnology company and a Microsoft MVP for BizTalk Server. He is the author of the books “Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform” (Packt Publishing, 2010) and “SOA Patterns for BizTalk Server 2009" (Packt Publishing, 2009).

Rob Windsor is a Lead SharePoint Consultant with Allin Consulting - a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Boston. He has over seventeen years experience developing rich-client and web applications with Delphi, VB, C# and VB.NET and is currently spending a majority of his time working with SharePoint.

Robert Boedigheimer works for Schwans Shared Services, LLC providing business solutions with web technologies. Robert has been developing web sites for the past 15 years. He is an ASP.NET MVP, an author, and a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Robert regularly speaks at national and international events.

Robert C. Cain is a Microsoft MVP in SQL Server Development, a Senior Business Intelligence Architect for ComFrame, and a technical contributor to Pluralsight.

Robert spent nearly 10 years at Microsoft creating software that made it easier for everyone else to write software. Most recently Robert worked on Team Foundation Server on the Administration and Version Control teams. Currently Robert can be found working in the utilities sector on Smart Grid technologies.

Sahil Malik has been a Microsoft MVP for the past 8 years, author of several books and numerous articles in both the .NET and SharePoint space, consultant and trainer who delivers talks at conferences internationally.

Scott has over 15 years of experience in commercial software development and is a frequent speaker at national conferences, and local user groups. Scott is a Microsoft MVP and has authored books on several Microsoft technologies, including ASP.NET, C#, and Windows Workflow.

Scott Seely is the president of Friseton, LLC, www.friseton.com. From 2002 to 2006, Scott was a developer on the WCF/Indigo team at Microsoft. Today, he is a Microsoft Regional Director in Chicago where he helps lead the Lake County .NET Users’ Group, organize Code Camps, and speaks at user groups throughout the region. His community involvement has earned him a Microsoft MVP Award for Connected Systems.

Shawn Wildermuth is an eight-time Microsoft MVP (Data), member of the INETA Speaker's Bureau and an author of dozens of articles on .NET and seven books; including the upcoming 'Essential Windows Phone 7' book for Addison-Wesley.

Stacia Misner is a consultant, instructor, author, mentor, BI Partner for SQLSkills, and principal of Data Inspirations specializing in Microsoft business intelligence technologies for over 10 years. She is a frequent speaker at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Summit, SQL Server Magazine Connections conferences, and various Microsoft events worldwide.

Steve Evans is an IT Pro with over 10 years of experience. He is a Microsoft MVP in Directory Services, a MCSE, and an accomplished speaker.

Steve Michelotti is a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and an Architect/Developer for Applied Information Sciences (AIS). He has consulted at Advertising.com/AOL where he was the Tech Lead for one of the highest volume .NET applications in the world.

Steve is a Senior Architect with The Code Project, a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, and founder of NimblePros consulting and tools. He has been a regular conference speaker since 2001 and has written or contributed to several books on software development, including 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know. Steve founded and coordinates a software craftsmanship user group in northeast Ohio (HudsonSC.com).

Thomas is a UK IT Pro, with over 40 year’s experience in the IT field. He’s presently doing writing, consulting and training around some of the key Microsoft technologies including PowerShell, Lync and Windows Server/client. He’s an MVP in PowerShell.

Vinod Kumar has worked with SQL Server extensively since joining the industry over a decade ago. Before joining Microsoft, he was a Microsoft MVP for SQL Server for more than 3 years. He now works with MTC as a Technology Architect. He is a well-known speaker at all major Microsoft and third party technical conferences.

Yacine has been involved in the development of database-driven, n-tier web applications for over 10 years. Over time he has taken on various roles, including development, project management, offshore platform management and technical consulting. He has helped build a few solutions for Microsoft North Africa.

Yasser Shohoud is an engineer at Facebook where he helps partners build social apps using the Facebook platform.