Bio

Michael is an experienced technologist based in Sydney, Australia, a Microsoft MVP since 2015, and a certified professional with over 10 years of working experience ranging from Mobile, Cloud, Web and DevOps. He currently owns Datachain Consulting, a company that focuses on democratizing AI and Blockchain technologies. His role allows him to explore the cutting edge technologies of Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, IoT, Edge Computing, and the Cloud.

Michael is a former CTO and Director of his Microsoft-partner company and has worked with various Microsoft clients and consulting partners delivering valued Consulting, Delivery, Training, Technical Presales and Support services. He is also a Microsoft Student Partner alumnus and has worked in Microsoft during his internship.

Michael is passionate to all things technology and data. He recently co-authored a book titled "Cloud Analytics with Microsoft Azure" available for download at https://bit.ly/mscloudanalytics

Michael also enjoys mentoring, attending conferences and user group meetups. He is also an international speaker having spoken at numerous events including the Microsoft Ignite, NDC, DDD, Cross-Platform Summit, and various in-person and virtual meet-ups.

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Hello!

I am Michaël Hompus and I am a developer and architect. I work at Info Support.

My passion is to share knowledge, with colleagues, customers and my peers. For this I try to write articles and speak at events.

My background is in Microsoft based technologies. From the beginning of my professional career I have worked with .NET and C#.

With product like SharePoint, Azure, Azure DevOps, Office 365, and Dynamics 365, just to name a few.

These days I try to combine tools together to get the work done for me, like using Roslyn to generate documentation, or to use ML.NET to get me achievements on my Xbox.

Michael is a Senior Software Developer at Realm Digital with teams and organisations of varied sizes. By working in these teams, Michael has experience in practises that teams may adopt to build good software and increase productivity. Most of his work is done with C# and TypeScript (ReactJS and TypeScript).

Michael loves meeting with developers and discussing building software and build communities of people who build and discuss software. He is often involved in organising developer events and meetups in Zimbabwe and sometimes travels to attend events.

Outside of work, Michael enjoys cycling, travelling, listening to music and mathematics.

Michael A. Hawker, a.k.a. XAML Llama, is a Senior Software Engineer for the Partner, Analytics, and essential eXperiences (PAX) team at Microsoft. PAX focuses on driving the ISV ecosystem through technical engagement with partners and industry as well as providing essential first party experiences. Michael is the maintainer of the Windows Community Toolkit and prior "App Ninja". Previously he's worked on Windows Protocols, Message Analyzer, and Network Monitor. He is also the creator of XAML Studio, a Microsoft Garage project.

I'm working as a software architect and have experience in .NET and Microsoft technologies since 2005. I completed my Bachelor of Engineering and have a master's degree focused on Linux.

I am one of the community leads of msHOWTO, the largest tech community in Turkey, responsible for software development and DevOps stuff. I enjoy organising and speaking at tech events as well. I host a webcast series called "msHOWTO Live!", with the aim of sharing (and learning) knowledge about Azure and other Microsoft Technologies.

I have been awarded Microsoft Azure MVP for 2021–2022, Traefik Ambassador since 2020, and July 2020 Cloud Community Champion by Cloud Family as well.

Melissa Houghton (she/her) is a Lead Software Engineer at Azenix and a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies.

Her work is focused on application development using Angular, .NET, and Azure, but she has a wide variety of skills and is always open to learning new things.

An advocate for women in tech with a passion for leadership, technology and giving back to the community. She frequents tech events, is an international conference speaker and organiser of DDD Melbourne conference, Melb․NET meetup, and Microsoft AU New Breakpoint Community.

Originally from California, Melissa loves to travel and now lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Mauro is active in the R&D area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Generation (NLG). He is a Data Scientist, Professional Scrum Master (PSM I), Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), and .NET foundation member. Previous CTO and Co-founder of "You Are My Guide" - "GhostWriterAI". He has been working continuously with .net since beta 2.

Active in the field of ethics, innovation and inclusiveness, he is a member of the SME Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence and Ethics, European Community. Facilitator for the Google #IAmRemarkable project. He is the author of research papers on understanding the text in Italian and English. He founded the Torino.NET meetup, and he is a speaker for Codemotion. Mentor for Techstars.

Matthew D. Groves is a guy who loves to code. It doesn't matter if it's C#, jQuery, or PHP: he'll submit pull requests for anything. He has been coding professionally ever since he wrote a QuickBASIC point-of-sale app for his parent's pizza shop back in the 90s. He currently works as a Developer Advocate for Couchbase. His free time is spent with his family, watching the Reds, and getting involved in the developer community. He is the author of AOP in .NET (published by Manning), a Pluralsight author, and a Microsoft MVP.

I provide consulting, training and I'm a software developer of Microsoft related technologies with a special focus on .NET technologies, DevOps and Microsoft Azure.

I participate as a speaker and organizer at several top events here in Italy, I'm a Content Manager and also a book author.

Matteo is an engineer in the Windows AppConsult team in Microsoft. In his role, he supports developers and companies all around the world learning and adopting the latest development tools and technologies for Windows 10, like .NET, the Universal Windows Platform, WinUI and MSIX. He has a strong passion about client development, which he loves to share with other developers by writing articles, blog posts and books and by speaking at conferences all around the world. Before joining Microsoft, he has been a Microsoft MVP in the Windows Development category and a Nokia Developer Champion for almost 5 years.

Matteo Emili is a Microsoft MVP since 2010.

He is passionate about technology, but it is not his only interest – what really makes him tick is how technology acts as a tool to solve a complex business problem, ultimately bringing benefits to the company.

Regular speaker at conferences and meetups, he enjoys sharing back with the worldwide technical communities – especially about ALM, Agile and DevOps.

He currently works at Avanade UK as a Manager for Software Engineering.

**Hello friends 👋 !**

I'm **Martin**, and I am a freelance mobile and cloud developer by day and open source contributor by night (or morning)!

I love **C# and XAML** and am a big fan of **UWP**. Because of that, I contribute to **Uno Platform** all the time to help to make the dream of fully cross-platform app development in my favorite programming languages a reality!

Whenever I am discover something fun or exciting, I share it with others **on my blog** about various topics, including UWP, Uno Platform, Xamarin, Azure and more.

I also love to help developers by answering questions **on Stack Overflow**. It is a great challenge and source of further exploration and learning.

Finally, I have recently started doing **live coding** on Twitch. I'm a beginner, but it is fun, and I will keep on doing it!

I am a technology enthusiast who always works on improving development and DevOps processes at our company to make life easier for developers and help deliver high. I was awarded Microsoft MVP for community and open-source work around .NET Core.

As a principal advocate for Amazon Web Services, Martin travels the world showcasing the transformational capabilities of AWS. In his time as an advocate, Martin has spoken at over 200 events and meetups as well as producing, blogs, tutorials and broadcasts.

Martin has been developing applications since he was 16 and over the past 21 years has worked on projects with many major companies and brands.

His primary focus is on .NET applications and has worked as a C# and VB developer since 2001.

Prior to joining AWS, Martin worked for Oracle and Microsoft as a developer evangelist and software development engineer.

Mark is a software development consultant with over 30 years of professional experience, 20 of which have been spent working with C# and .NET. He is a regular speaker at international conferences including NDC, Build Stuff, GOTO and QCon, as well as user groups in the UK and (in this Age of Zoom) around the world, and delivers workshops on various aspects of .NET application development including gRPC, performance optimization and more.

He is currently working on Visual ReCode, a tool to help developers migrate their .NET 4.x code to .NET Core 3.1 and .NET 5.0, and a new open source project, Cocoon, that mixes new ASP.NET Core apps with legacy ASP.NET apps. You can watch him working on that on his Twitch stream.

Let's see, what else? Oh, yeah: he's a Microsoft MVP; he is the co-author of gRPC for WCF Developers; and he messes around with game development using Unity in his spare time.

Mark Michaelis is the founder and CEO of IntelliTect, an innovative software architecture and development consulting firm based in Spokane, Washington. At any given time, Mark leads his successful company while flying all over the world for speaking engagements on behalf of Microsoft or other clients. He continually delivers conference sessions on leadership or technology, is updating the next edition of his book or is crafting his next technical article or blog.

A world-class C# expert, Mark has been a Microsoft Regional Director since 2007 and a Microsoft MVP for twenty-five years. He is also an adjunct professor at Eastern Washington University, a regular speaker at developer conferences around the world, and has written numerous articles and books, including the seventh edition of Essential C# 8.0, which due out in the fall of 2020. A firm believer in autonomy, mastery, and purpose, Mark's unmatched management and leadership style enables him to successfully handle a day with only 24 hours in it.

Mark and his wife, Elisabeth, have invested a significant amount of the profit generated by IntelliTect into fighting debilitating poverty around the world and in Spokane, Washington. They have done this by thoughtfully partnering with charity organizations to increase access to basic food and water infrastructure, and improve educational opportunities, as well as fight injustices like human trafficking and the systematic oppression of women.

Mark lives with his wife Elisabeth and three children, Benjamin, Hanna, and Abigail, in Spokane, Washington. When not bonding with his computer, Mark enjoys soccer, hiking, and showing his kids real life in other countries. He is looking forward to finding his next adventure.

Marco Minerva has been working with .NET since its first introduction. Currently he works as freelance consultant and he is involved in designing and developing applications for the Microsoft ecosystem. He organizes and holds training courses on these topics. He is co-founder and Community Leader of DotNetToscana and member of DotNetLiguria, two Italian User Groups. He is speaker at technical events and writes articles for magazines. He is a Microsoft MVP for Windows Development.

My name is Marco and I have an incredible passion for technology which I had the privilege to turn into a job. I've been working with .NET since the first beta, focusing on ASP.NET and, more generally, anything that is web related. I've been an early adopter of Microsoft Azure – who remembers the portal in Silverlight? :) – and, since its introduction, Cloud technologies have represented the core of my professional interest.

Today I work as a freelance Solutions Architect in the beautiful London, focusing on Cloud transformation. Getting involved in the .NET and Azure community is also a key aspect of my profession: I'm convinced that knowledge sharing is one of the best ways to improve our professional skills, and therefore I try to dedicate as much time as I can to activities such as writing articles or speaking at conferences and meetups. Thanks to that, I've been awarded as a Microsoft MVP for the last 11 years in a row.

Marco Dal Pino has been working in the IT for almost 30 years as Developer, Team Leader, PM and Advisory Engineer.

He mostly experienced on Microsoft development Platforms around .NET, for LOB, Desktop, Mobile and embedded applications.

He is a Trainer and a Speaker at main technical conference all around the world.

He is part of the staff of DotNetToscana a community focused on Microsoft technologies.

He received many award from IT company as independent Advisor like:

Microsoft MVP, Intel BlackBelt & Innovator, Nokia DevChamp, Hackster Live Ambassador

He actually works in Microsoft as Cloud Solution Architect.