Bio

Hey, friends 👋🙂

During the pandemic I found myself stuck without motivation or drive to learn anything new or create anything and that really hit home for me about a year ago - when I found myself at a low point personally and professionally - stuck without being able to move forward. I decided to start writing articles on online magazines, start learning new tech, and made a conscious decision to grow, and have been speaking at meetups and conferences for about a year now, building as much as I can.

I've been in web and application development from the early days of .NET - starting when 1.1 was released and using every version professionally since - focusing on predominantly web and cloud technology but with a bit of application and mobile development thrown in. I aspire to be the proverbial swiss army knife that Scott Hanselman uses as an example in his talks - good at one thing, but with a lot of other areas of experience.

I know I am not the finished article, but I also know that nobody is - and I've been driving myself to be more involved in open source projects and mentoring where I can in an effort to get closer to that goal. If I can help a few people come along that journey with me, or if I can learn from a few people on the same journey then all the better ❤

Hi 👋, I'm **Carlos Mendible**




I'm a **Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect** and former **Azure and Developer Technologies Microsoft MVP**, certified as: PMP, CISA, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Terraform Associate and more.

* If you are interested in Azure and .NET you should visit my blog at https://carlos.mendible.com

* Check my .NET samples repo here: dotnetcore.samples

* Also if you need a Fake SMTP server for your .NET tests check: netDumbster

I have over five years experience speaking at conferences and user groups. You can see some of the feedback I've received for my presentations at https://blog.thesoftwarementor.com/feedback/

I'm a Microsoft MVP, maker, husband & father of two. I build stuff, break stuff & make up for a lack of talent with persistence.

My specialist area is "Life beyond the Edge"

When the device has kilobytes not gigabytes of RAM, kilohertz not gigahertz of clock speed, and kilobits not gigabits of bandwidth.

When the battery might have to last for years and solar power is a bonus.

When the device can only send a couple of messages a day, and your ability to send messages to the device is limited

When the device might never get updated and there are definitely no Containers or patch Tuesday.

I get these tiny devices to "play nice" with Azure over wireless technolgies like LoRa, LoRaWAN and other proprietary protocols.

I also work with the little .Net platforms like the nanoFramework which is now a .NET foundation member, the TinyCLR from GHI Electronics and the Meadow from Wilderness labs.

I have a sideline in shifting "legacy to the cloud" mid 90's tech like MSMQ, Classic ASP, COM+, and C++ interop.

A Software Engineer who is very intense about .NET, world traveller and thinks home is wherever you set your beer down.

I work on an open source company, building crash reporting SDKs.

The main topics I'm involved these days are around the platforms .NET, Java, Unity, iOS, Android, React Native and Flutter.

Hi, my name is Bruno Capuano, and you can find me by [***elbruno***] on most of the usual places: twitter, linkedin, facebook, this blog and more. Please do not get discourage by some of the search results, I'll try to have fun and share knowledge with technical communities.

I'm also a technology enthusiast (I don't really understand the meaning of this, but it seems to look cool in a short description). I've speak in at least 2 different countries, so I'm an also an international speaker.

!Sharing my drawing skills at Microsoft Ignite

Sharing my drawing skills at Microsoft Ignite, also talking about Computer Vision and AI.

I've been a Microsoft MVP for 13 years, since 2008. The past 3 years I was awarded in the Artificial Intelligence category.

I lead the ***Innovation Team for Avanade Canada***, which means I spend much part of my time trying to figure our the best way to connect real Business with cool technologies, and engaging my colleagues to perform smart and fun activities like participate in hackathons, coordinate hackathons and Innovation Contests, support tech meetings, and more!

Because I am the father the greatest kids on the earth, I developed a passion to run (to run a lot!); and I like to make things, to challenge myself and to improve and to learn new stuff all the time.

***My formal bio is here***

>> LinkedIn profile,

Hi !

My name's Bruno, I'm a developer and team lead at Done Technologies, where we create custom software for our clients, either as a full dedicated team or as an extension of an already existing team. I've worked in the pharmaceutical and financial domains in the past, but now I am more than focused on the variety my job offers as I am able to work on different projects that use varying technologies and different business areas that always ask me to learn new things.

I'm also a passionate developer and Microsoft MVP that loves to share content with the community. I am co-host of a French Youtube channel we've been doing since 2016, sharing anything from new features to tools and tips related to software development. More recently, I added blogging to the content I create to be able to offer another way of sharing my knowledge and even more recently I started speaking in conferences. So I am not a seasoned speaker per se, but slowly gaining experience on that matter while continuing to produce new videos and blogs.

I recently took a huge interest in Blazor, for which I thrive to become a reference on the subject. So anything related to Blazor, I'll be more than happy to jump in and collaborate!

I started my career as a developer using .NET, and haven't stopped since.

I am available to talk about ASP.NET, open-source tools and .NET on Linux.

Brian is a Microsoft Azure MVP and is an experienced speaker, author, trainer, and .Net developer with MCSA: Web App Certification, MCSD: App Builder, and nine Azure certifications including Azure Developer, Administrator, DevOps, Architect, Data Administrator, Security, IoT, and a number of fundamentals, and has been an MCT since 2018. Brian has a masters of science degree in computer information systems, and a bachelor of science degree in computer science. Additionally, Brian has over ten years of experience instructing college courses online in SQL databases, C#/VB.Net/and Java object-oriented programming, and Microsoft Office. Brian has created many online technical training courses that can be found online on various platforms. Brian has also published a book with APress entitled "Practical Entity Framework" The second edition of the book targeting .Net Core 6 was released in late November of 2021.

I've over 15 years of speaker experiance, 20+ in Dev/Architecture.

Ex-MVP on C# for 11 years. Currently cracking .net core in containers with Orleans and Masstransit on top of RedHat OpenShift.

Strong interests in hybrid cloud apps, messaging and integration.

Brady Gaster is a principal program manager in the Developer Division at Microsoft, where he works on SignalR, microservices and HTTP APIs, and integration with Azure service teams in hopes to make it exciting for developers who work on .NET apps to party in the cloud. You can find Brady on Twitter at @bradygaster when he's not learning with (or from) his 2 sons, tinkering with code, or making music in his basement using various synthesizers and guitars.

I am Bobby and I like .NET so much.

• into programming since 4th grade (back in 1992).
• working with .NET since the 2003.
• significant part of the career spent developing some of the most popular .NET components in the world with Telerik, as a developer, technical lead and manager of various teams. The components are used by tens of thousands .NET developers around the world.
• member of the .NET Foundation
• formal education in "Informatics" and "Software Technologies" in Sofia University.
• "adopted" a Visual Studio extension after Microsoft Office team abandoned it, and now it has ~10k downloads.
• Newbie speaker with one bigger event so far. The event was successful, both informative and funny according to the feedback (slides here).

Bohdan is Microsoft MVP and Xamarin Software Developer from Rzeszow, co-organizer of Xamarin Local Events in Rzeszow & Cracow. Engaged in writing a blog at Medium and development of cross-platform NuGet package for an easy and convenient way to paint different complexity gradients in SkiaSharp for the Xamarin platform. He enjoys good beer and various discussions about writing programs and their architecture.

Bogusław Błoński – .NET developer and Software Architect. Bogusław began his profession as a JAVA developer but now focuses on .NET, backend, web, mobile, iOS, Android Xamarin and MAUI development. Bogusław has also designed and helped implement systems used by millions of people.

Hi! I'm Bogdan Bujdea, .NET Developer at Maxcode and Microsoft MVP on Developer Technologies. The only thing I like more than programming is talking about it, so I'm trying to do this as often as I can as a speaker at conferences and on my blog. I'm currently co-organizing the dotnetdays (https://dotnetdays.ro) conference in Romania and the local .NET user group.

I've done public speaking in the past about subjects I'm super passionate about (https://blakeniemyjski.com/categories/public-speaking/). I'd like to take it to the next level :).

With over 25 years in software development (almost 15 of which is .NET), Dr. Bill brings a pragmatic (curmudgeonly?) approach to software development. With much of that time spent in consulting, he has worked on many different projects and used many different designs and approaches. He recently switched to the dark side and uses his development experience as a .NET developer advocate with AWS, helping AWS to build a better and more rich .NET developer experience.

I love to share my experience and knowledge and also learn from you. Feel free to reach out to me with the appropriate topics.

Ben is a passionate developer, software and cloud solution architect and especially focused on .NET, cloud and IoT.

In his professional life he is a Technical Fellow / Executive Engineer for Cloud and IoT.

He runs the largest german-speaking C# forum myCSharp.de, is the founder of the Azure UserGroup Stuttgart, a co-organizer of the AzureSaturday, runs his blog, participates in open source projects, speaks at various conferences and user groups and also has a bit free time.

He has been named Microsoft MVP seven times since 2015 for .NET and Azure.

I am an IT professional with over 20 years of experience in IT management, architecture and agile development with a passion for crafting right and beautiful enterprise software solutions built from the outside in, and sharing how we do it. I started a Xamarin user group when I landed in sunny Singapore to help enthusiasts and professionals to maximize the development efforts with this lovely platform and extended the topics to anything fun that got on the way.

I run a boutique tech agency accurately named Xamariners where our team helps companies build or modernize their apps.

Thanks Microsoft & Xamarin for inviting me to join your great MVP community and making a ton of new friends on the way.