Steve Buchanan is a Principal PM Manager with a leading global tech giant focused on improving the cloud. He is a Pluralsight author, the author of eight technical books, Onalytica's Who’s Who in Cloud?-top 50, and a former 10-time Microsoft MVP.
He has presented at tech events, including, DevOps Days, Open Source North, Midwest Management Summit (MMS), Microsoft Ignite, BITCon, Experts Live Europe, OSCON, Inside Azure management, keynote at Minnebar 18, and user groups. He has been a guest on
... more over a dozen podcasts and has been featured in several publications including the Star Tribune (the 5th largest newspaper in the US).
He stays active in the technical community and enjoys blogging about his adventures in the world of IT at www.buchatech.com
I have worked in IT design, development, and architecture for over a decade for some of the top fortune 100 companies. I have designed and architected enterprise applications and developed scalable and portable software. I am a Google Certified Professional Architect. Critical areas where I have worked are architecture and design using Java, ESB, Tomcat, ReactJS, JavaScript, Linux, Oracle, SVN, GIT, and so on, and cloud technologies, including AWS and GCP.
Alex Korban is an author and independent consultant with an interest in functional programming, databases, and geospatial applications. He's written several books about C++11 and C++14. Alex co-founded a company to visualize geospatial data for the heavy construction industry in order to improve safety and productivity when building highways, tunnels, and other infrastructure. Prior to that he worked on a wide range of software, such as early mobile applications, a flight simulator, and GPS-base
... mored vehicle fleet tracking and guidance software for construction machinery, including bulldozers, excavators, and self-driving kerb laying machines.
Soham is a full stack developer with experience in building large scale web applications and services for clients across the globe. He is a book author, and writes on his blog regularly on various topics related to web development.
Soham has extensive experience with React, D3, Node.js and Go stacks.
Pinal Dave is an SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert and independent consultant with over 22 years of hands-on experience. He holds a Master of Science degree and numerous database certifications. Pinal has authored 14 SQL Server database books and 81 Pluralsight courses. To freely share his knowledge and help others build their expertise, Pinal has also written more than 5,800 database tech articles on his blog at https://blog.sqlauthority.com.
Hongtao Xiao is a professional software developer since 2012.
During the years, he is involved in different phases including designing, implementing, testing, and debugging of several successful software projects.
He is a professional developer of programming languages including Java, .Net, Python and ECMAScript/Javascript, and he is an everyday user of scripting languages including Shell/Bash and PowerShell.