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I am the founder of Intelligent Hack, an innovative consulting startup focused on helping you grow your company from thousands to millions, through improving company culture, implementing agile methodologies and remote work, rearchitecting for scale, and paying tech debt. I was part of the Stack Overflow core development team I was Toptal's first Engineering Manager where I helped implement agile and focused on reducing technical debt. I have also been a signed pro musician, a game audio engineer, and a music producer.

Marcel is the co-founder and CTO of Xpirit, a high-end consulting firm based in Hilversum, Netherlands. Marcel co-founded Xpirit in 2014 as a spin off from Xebia Netherlands. Together with Xebia they help customers with Digital Transformation, Agile Consulting, and Full Stack development with both Microsoft and open source products. Marcel spends most of his time looking at how new emerging technologies, a shift in mindset, and a new way of work, can help organizations get software in production faster. Helping organizations transform towards a high speed, innovative, and productive organization has become his passion. Marcel loves to learn new technologies and teach others what he has learned. Besides his work as CTO he also works as a consultant in the field of Application Lifecycle Management, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Cloud/Web scale application architectures, and Cross platform Enterprise Mobile app development with Xamarin. Marcel is a frequent speaker at leading industry conferences. He has delivered sessions at events like Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft //Build, NDC, Microsoft TechDays, Visual Studio Live!, Devintersection, Xebicon, and Techorama to name a few. Marcel also hosts several meetups in his region on Microsoft Azure, Xamarin, and ALM. In his spare time he builds online courses for Pluralsight. Marcel has been awarded by Microsoft the Microsoft ALM MVP award for more than 10 consecutive years and he is a Microsoft Regional Director since 2008. You can always contact him to talk on subjects like: DevOps, ALM, Cloud Computing, Microservices, Mobile Development, Docker, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS

I've been building .NET applications for almost half of my life, started with VB, moved to C# and fell in love with Silverlight. My journey has been full of twists and turns, some by my own hand, some not so much. I was heavily invested in Windows Phone development and eventually transition to Windows Mobile, only to have the rug pulled out from under me. Now my focus is on ASP.NET MVC Razor and Blazor as well as ASP.NET Web API. I am director of software for a fintech company which juggles two very distinct stacks. .NET and Jakarta EE. Some of the challenges I face are converting legacy ASP.NET Webforms and WCF systems to modern API and MVC focused applications with a huge emphasis on scalability and security. I still have a ton of things to learn, but I've picked up a wealth of knowledge on my journey. Sharing those experiences and knowing I could help make a different would be amazing!

Hi 👋, I'm **Manuel Sánchez**

Technical Manager & Azure Evangelist at Everis | Microsoft MVP Azure.

Passionate about new technologies, highlighting Netcore , Microsoft Azure, Xamarin, IA, Bots and ASP.NET. Passionate about team management.

I contribute to the developers community writing articles in my personal blog and giving speeches in numerous events.

I am also one of the Netcoreconf leads.

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💬 Let's talk about **Microsoft Azure and .NET**

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Manuel is an Azure Solution Architect, Developer/Consultant/Trainer/Enthusiast at Trivadis AG. He is a Microsoft MVP and has many years of experience in large enterprise customer projects with a focus on Microsoft technologies. In his spare time, he speaks at conferences and organizes the Azure Zurich User Group (https://azurezurichusergroup.com) and .NET Day Switzerland (https://dotnetday.ch). His interests are in Azure, Software Architecture & Design, Performance Management & Troubleshooting.

Developer @ Lambda3, Microsoft MVP, speaker, open source enthusiast, gamer, and beer hunter

Maddy Leger is a Program Manager at Microsoft on the Xamarin team. She has been with the team since 2018 working on Xamarin tooling. She first worked with the Xamarin team as a Microsoft intern and realized the impact she could have creating amazing developer tools and frameworks. Maddy's current focus is on making Xamarin developers more productive than ever. Find Maddy on Twitter and Github @maddyleger1!

Maarten Balliauw loves building web and cloud apps. His main interests are in .NET web technologies, C#, Microsoft Azure and application performance. He is Developer Advocate at JetBrains. He's an ASP Insider and former Microsoft MVP. Maarten is a frequent speaker at various national and international events and organizes Azure User Group events in Belgium. In his free time, he brews his own beer. Maarten's blog can be found at https://blog.maartenballiauw.be.

Luis Quintanilla is a passionate technologist based out of New York with experience in machine learning and software development. His main area of focus is creating resources that make it easier for developers to get started in their artificial intelligence and machine learning journey. In previous roles, he served as an Analytics Developer in the financial services industry as well as an Artificial Intelligence Consultant where he helped clients envision how they could transform their business through artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions. When not at work, he's usually tinkering with different tools/technologies, applying them in different scenarios and sharing findings with others.

Hi there!

I am Luis Matos and I help companies and professionals to create value in their software products to offer higher quality, build more loyalty, and reach the desired audience through design and positioning strategies.

Through my agency (Malla Agency) I offer development services, strategic consulting, and automation of internal processes; and through my Personal Brand, I train professionals in design and mobile application development.

Through my website luismts.com, I help thousands of people every month by sharing free articles, courses, apps, and resources.

How did I get where I am today?

System Engineer, Mobile Applications Developer, Designer, Consultant, and Entrepreneur are some of the characteristics that describe me. I began my career and gained experience in the labor market through software development, collaborating on numerous projects for various companies with a national and international presence.

Lover of mobility and mobile development, an area where today I am known for my collaborations through different communities. I am also a member, founder, and active collaborator in different technology communities.

Passionate about disruptive technologies, a movement that has led me to graduate from Blockchain Executive at the EOI Business School in Madrid, Spain.

Highlight that it has been my skills in areas of design, marketing, and business that have differentiated and promoted my professional career.

If you want to know more about my work see you on my website https://www.luismts.com

About 20 years of experience working in Microsoft technologies, and the last 15 very focused in Microsoft 365, SharePoint and MS Azure.

I am very passionate about Microsoft Technology. I am a Microsoft community member, where I participate in tangible manner in events, with my blog or contributing to the OfficeDev PnP project (usually I´m a monthly Key contributor).

I also collaborate with CompartiMOSS (https://www.compartimoss.com/autores/luis-manez), a Microsoft technologies specializing magazine, led by some Spanish SharePoint MVPs.

I enjoy sharing my knowledge with others, either at writing a blog post or streaming an online session. Of course, activities such as talking for a conference and answering peeps' questions in social networks are included as well.

Increasing partners' ROI on cloud investments with the right architecture is one of my objectives as a Cloud Solution Architect working for Microsoft. Improving people's public speaking skills is one of my personal goals.

I'm specialized in Cloud Native Applications and Application Modernization, on Azure and Microsoft 365, with Visual Studio, GitHub, and Azure DevOps. I like to talk with people and communities about technology, food, and funny things.

I'm a speaker, a trainer, and a public speaking coach. I've helped many students, devs, other professionals, and many colleagues, improving their stage presence to deliver exceptional presentations.

I work for Microsoft Italy in the One Commercial Partner Technical Organization, helping partners, developers, communities, and customers, supporting software development on Microsoft and OSS technologies.

I've managed teams of more than twenty people, and now I enjoy when I can lead virtual teams to drive specific results.

I'm a Microsoft Certified Trainer since 2000 and a former Microsoft MVP for ALM, DevOps, and Virtual Machines.

I write articles for Italian IT magazines, and I speak at conferences in Italy and Europe, and I've published three (free) e-books and a book about Azure Serverless.

Specialties: Cloud Architectures, Public Speaking, Training, Software Development, Problem Solving, Team Development, Coaching

Lex Li has been Microsoft MVP since 2012, and currently runs his own consulting firm, LeXtudio Inc., in the city of Toronto, Canada. Before that he worked at Morgan Stanley, Microsoft and Cisco.

Lex specializes in IT infrastructure such as web servers and networking. He is active in many online communities like Stack Overflow and often blogs at https://blog.lextudio.com .

Since starting at Microsoft, I have given many talks (primarily on Visual Studio debugging) at internal and external conferences such as Build, Ignite, 1ES, and DevIntersection. I'm not a fan of super formal talks so I try to keep my speaking style very conversational while telling relatable stories and scenarios that people can engage in and easily understand. I'm always looking to grow as a speaker, so the more available opportunities there are, the merrier!

Lee is a prolific writer, speaker, and video producer on .Net and open source topics. He has published over 100 posts to his personal blog (https://www.leerichardson.com) that have received more than half a million views since 2007. His "Code Hour" YouTube channel (https://youtube.com/leerichardson200) has attracted over 1,000 subscribers who have collectively consumed over 7 thousand hours of his content. StackOverflow ranks him as a top 2% contributor. He has published 25 articles to CodeProject with an average article rating of 4.96/5. Throughout his 20 year software development consulting career in the DC area he has spoken scores of times at code camps, conferences, and user groups. He created the Siren of Shame (https://sirenofshame.com), and is a Solution Samurai at InfernoRed (http://infernoredtech.com). When not coding he enjoys running, mountain biking, smoking brisket, electronics, 3D printing, and woodworking. He is active on twitter where you can reach him @lprichar (https://twitter.com/lprichar).

I am constantly working on innovative side projects, building things and looking for ways to educate the .NET community in cool technologies.

I am the creator of VisualStudioTips.co.uk, HackathonTips.com, ExpressionDesign4.com and XamarinArkit.com among other things.

I love sharing my knowledge with others.

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Layla is a Developer Advocate at VMware serving the .NET community. She is a Live Coder on Twitch, a Microsoft MVP, A GitHub Star, and co-organiser of MK .NET user group. Layla loves sharing knowledge whilst having fun. No question is stupid and beginners are always welcome.

Hola!

Yo soy Lautaro Carro, soy de Argentina y me encanta compartir con la comunidad ya sea dando charlas, organizando eventos o respondiendo preguntas en los distintos grupos.

Comunidad

Soy organizador de la comunidad Latino .NET Online y un miembro activo de la comunidad NET-Baires.

Aparte me pueden encontrar en muchísimas más comunidades como speaker o simplemente como un miembro más.

Mis Skills

La mayoría de mis aportes a la comunidad tratan sobre Asp .NET Core y sobre Blazor. Actualmente estoy muy metido en las novedades de Blazor y disfruto mucho hablando sobre este tema.