Simon is Creative Director and Principal Author at Pluralsight. With over three decades of software development experience, he's programmed in every discipline: from finance to transportation, nuclear reactors to game development. Prior to joining Pluralsight, Simon was the principal developer author at lynda.com. His first video course released back in 2002: since then, his popular courses have been viewed by hundreds of thousands of developers. His current focus is both on the new — the latest
... more iOS and Mac development technologies — and on the old: fundamental computer science topics. He obsesses on making complicated subjects accessible, memorable, and easier to learn.
Xavier Morera is driven by one passion: taking on the challenge of understanding complex topics and sharing that knowledge with others. He’s currently focused on the transformative fields of AI, machine learning, generative AI, search, and big data.
As an entrepreneur, project manager, technical author, and trainer, Xavier brings a diverse set of skills and deep expertise to every project he takes on. He holds multiple certifications with Cloudera, Microsoft, and the Scrum Alliance and has been
... more recognized as a Microsoft MVP for his contributions to the tech community. With a career filled with cutting-edge projects, Xavier has developed a knack for managing complex enterprise software solutions, partnering with companies ranging from startups to tech giants like Microsoft.
Currently, Xavier is the co-founder of Lupo.ai, an AI-driven SaaS platform dedicated to video creation, which he considers his Ikigai – his purpose and passion.
If you want to connect or swap stories, reach out to Xavier on LinkedIn. He’s always up for a chat and has countless stories to share.
Ben Weissman, a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, has been working with SQL Server since SQL Server 6.5, mainly in the BI/Datawarehousing field.
Besides his Pluralsight courses, Ben is also the co-author of multiple books on data and kubernetes including "SQL Server on Kubernetes ", "Azure Arc-enabled Data Services", "SQL Server Big Data Clusters" and "The Biml Book".
He is also a regular speaker at international events.
Ben and his team at Solisyon have been involved in more than 200 Business I
... morentelligence, Data Analytics and Data Integration Projects where they provide training, implementation and consultancy for SQL/BI developers and data analysts in upper-mid-market companies around the globe.
Jordan Morrow is known as the "Godfather of Data Literacy", having helped pioneer the field by building one of the world's first data literacy programs and driving thought leadership. Jordan is a global trailblazer in the world of data literacy, having built one of the world's first data literacy programs. He served as the Chair of the Advisory Board for The Data Literacy Project, has spoken at numerous conferences around the world and is an active voice in the data and analytics community. He h
... moreas also helped companies and organizations around the world, including the United Nations, build and understand data literacy.
When not found within his work of Data, Jordan is happily married with 5 kids. Jordan is also an avid trail runner and loves fitness, entering and racing in multiple ultra-marathons and having fun adventures in the mountains. Jordan is an avid reader, often reading (or using Audible) to go through multiple books at a time.
Matthew Renze is an AI researcher, consultant, and author. As the founder of Renze Consulting, he has trained over 500,000 software developers and IT professionals. As the president of the Renze AI Research Institute, he researches cognitive architectures for agentic AI systems. Matthew has a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence from Johns Hopkins University. He is a Microsoft MVP in AI, a Microsoft Regional Director, and an author for Pluralsight. You can learn more at https://matthewrenz
... moree.com/
Lee Feinberg founded DecisionViz in 2012 to help leaders use data to persuade decisions and drive action. He has worked with clients and lectured worldwide. Lee developed the Design To Act ® framework as a way for organizations to scale data literacy and data storytelling. He has worked for 20 years in analytics, data visualization, and strategy. He is an adjunct faculty at NYU and served on the board of advisors at Stevens Institute of Technology. Lee graduated from Cornell University with a BS
... more and MS in Electrical Engineering.
DecisionViz is a Tableau Partner and Tableau Foundation Contributor. Lee founded and ran the NJ / NY Tableau User Groups from 2010-18, and served as Tableau Ambassador from 2016-20.
Lee is an avid concert-goer; Deadpool is his favorite movie; he enjoys weightlifting and biking. He is married to Lori; they have two children, Matt and Aliyah.
Thomas is a Senior Software Engineer and Certified ScrumMaster. During his career he has been involved in many projects from building web applications to setting up Hadoop clusters. Thomas's specialization is with Hortonworks Data Platform and Agile Software Development.
Thomas is a proud alumnus of the University of North Alabama where he received his BBA - Computer Information System and his MBA - Information Systems.
He currently resides in north Alabama with his wife and daughter, where
... morehe hacks away at running.
Dan Appleman is a well known author, software developer, and speaker. He is the author of numerous books, ebooks, and online courses on various topics (technology and other). His latest book is "Advanced Apex Programming" - advancedapex.com.
Richard Seroter is currently the Chief Evangelist at Google Cloud and leads the Developer Relations program. He's also an instructor at Pluralsight, a frequent public speaker, the author of multiple books on software design and development, and a former InfoQ.com editor plus former 12-time Microsoft MVP for cloud. As Chief Evangelist at Google Cloud, Richard leads the team of developer advocates, developer engineers, outbound product managers, and technical writers who ensure that people find, u
... morese, and enjoy Google Cloud. Richard maintains a regularly updated blog on topics of architecture and solution design (seroter.com) and can be found on Twitter as @rseroter.
Barry is an independent software architect and developer with a passion for the cloud. He is also a Pluralsight author and a podcast host. He has worked for lots of companies throughout the last decades and is keen to share his knowledge with the community. He has a broad and deep knowledge of the Microsoft stack with a special interest on web technology and the cloud. He currently teaches people about the benefits of the cloud.
You can reach Barry on Twitter @AzureBarry and through his website
... more at https://www.azurebarry.com and check out his podcast “Improving Barry” in your favorite podcast app or at https://www.improvingbarry.com.
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.
David is a Webby Award winning cloud development consultant that focuses on cloud native web, mobile, and IoT applications. For over fifteen years as a consultant David has led custom software development on emerging platforms for companies such as FedEx, AT&T, Sony Music, Intel, Comcast, Herman Miller, Principal Financial, and Adobe (as well as many others).
David regularly writes and speaks on the digital landscape with published works for O'Reilly and Lynda.com. He has written for Mashable,
... more Smashing Magazine, and VentureBeat, and he has spoken at events like AdTech, Interop, and Adobe Max.
Vlad is an Office 365 consultant helping organizations get the most out their Microsoft 365 Digital Workplace. IT Professional at heart, Vlad focuses on helping administrators deploy, manage, automate, and configure governance across services such as SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Teams.
As an author, Microsoft Certified Trainer and recognized international speaker, Vlad has helped over a million IT Professionals and end-users across the globe to better understand and to ge
... moret the most out of Office 365 and the greater Microsoft 365 platform. Vlad is the author of three SharePoint books published by Apress and over 25 courses on Pluralsight covering Microsoft 365, Azure, and the Power Platform.
Mark Heath is a software developer based in Southampton, England, working
for NICE Systems as a software architect creating cloud based digital
evidence management systems for the police. He is the creator of NAudio, an
open source audio framework for .NET. He is passionate about continually
improving his skills and training other developers, and in recent years has
been particularly focused on the challenges of creating scalable and
reliable Azure-deployed systems. In his (very limited) spare t
... moreime, he
enjoys home studio recording, football and theology, and spending time with
his five very energetic children.
Maaike is trainer and software developer. She founded training agency Brightboost in 2014 and spends most of her days and nights working and learning. Training gives her the opportunity to combine her love for software development with her passion to help others boost their careers and be successful. She has trained professionals in the field of Java, Spring, C#, Python, Scrum, React and Angular. A lot of her time is spend staying up-to-date with the latest developments in her field. Next to the
... more practical training and programming experience, Maaike has a lot of experience with short technical consulting projects and providing learning solutions for complex software development departments.
Jeremy Willden started in technology at a very young age and encourages youth and kids to enter STEM careers. He anticipates potential problems early in the design cycle, saving time and money during project development. He spent five years with National Instruments, the maker of LabVIEW software and measurement hardware. His work ranged from complex analog and digital mixed-signal designs to managing the Oscilloscopes engineering group. As time went on he moved to presenting new technologies t
... moreo thousands of investors, industry analysts, and customers at the annual NI Week convention. He was involved with RF and wireless product and manufacturing test systems development with MaxStream, enabling increased throughput by a factor of ten while improving quality and lowering the manufacturing cost of the products. These improvements were a key factor in the acquisition of MaxStream by Digi InternationaI. Jeremy is the co-founder of Constellation Labs, an engineering consulting firm, providing for the technical development needs of many companies in the Silicon Slopes region, across the country, and internationally. In addition to professional product development, he is an avid "maker," building multidisciplinary projects for fun. An early adopter of the Raspberry Pi and other platforms, he leverages low-cost, powerful platforms deployed globally to develop and grow the Internet of Things (IoT).
Chris Ward has always loved teaching people cool stuff. He graduated with a degree in radio and television production with a minor in theater in order to be a better communicator. While teaching at the Arizona Radio and Television Broadcasting Academy, Chris was able to do voiceover work at a technical training company specializing in live online classes in Microsoft, Cisco, and Comptia technologies. Over the years, he became one of the top virtual instructors at several training companies, whil
... moree also speaking at many tech and training conferences. Chris specializes in project management and ITIL these days, while also doing his best to be a good husband and father.
Gerry Scullion is CEO of This is Doing and also Founder of This is HCD, global design community alongside the #1 human-centered design podcast on the internet. www.thisishcd.com and www.thisisdoing.com
This is HCD includes a large international design focussed newsletter, 10+ podcasts on topics to enable change, an international Slack community, 12+ global community chapters around the world with over 10,000 change makers (people using Design to create a better world).
He has over 19-years pro
... morefessional design experience across a range of industries such as finance, healthcare, media, public services, social media and various startups. He contributed to the book ‘This is Service Design Doing’ (O’Reilly 2018) focusing on chapters about effective prototyping, and embedding Service Design teams within organizations.
Gerry lives in Ireland with his beautiful wife and two children near the sea in Dublin.
Brice Wilson has been a professional developer for over 30 years and has used many tools and programming languages during that time. He has worked as a developer and architect for a number of large companies and enjoys learning, experimenting with, and teaching new technologies. His current interests are centered on server and client-side web development.
Ryan Lewis is a Software Engineer who specializes in ambitious single page web applications. He started building websites over 15 years ago to promote his bands and record label. After traveling around the world playing music, he brought his talents to the Pacific Northwest, where he utilizes open-source technologies, such as Backbone, Ember, and Node.js, to build business intelligence and customer facing applications for companies such as Expedia and T-Mobile. In his current position, he works
... moreon a platform providing customer support sites to over 100 separate brands.
Ryan teaches Java and JavaScript to aspiring web developers and technology professionals at the University of Washington and Seattle Central College. As an after school instructor, he has also taught children how to play guitar, create movies, and speak Japanese.
In his free time, Ryan enjoys spending time with his family, playing video games, and releasing underground Japanese music on his record label, MeatCube.
Dragana is an Agile Consultant and founder at Adaptive, passionate about empowering teams and organizations to succeed. For more than a decade, she has been helping global software teams and various companies to implement Agile and other organizational practices, deliver successful projects and create software products.
Over that time, she has been acting in different technical and leadership roles.
Master of Computer Science by education, Dragana is also SPC, PSM 3, PSM 2, PSM 1, Prince 2, IT
... moreIL, ASL certified, and a lifelong learner.
In her free time, she loves spending time with her family, traveling, and having a good laugh with positive and inspiring people.
Matthew Pizzi is currently the Director of Product, Academy at Contentstack, where he spearheads the development of learning experiences that enhances how customers engage with Contentstack’s industry-leading composable CMS. His expertise in ed-tech leadership started by founding Train Simple, a leader in education for Adobe products and web technologies. Following the acquisition of Train Simple by Pluralsight in 2016, Matt played a pivotal role in overseeing key domains to further skills devel
... moreopment of today’s technology workforce at Pluralsight. He is an established speaker, having presented at notable industry events such as Adobe MAX and Social Media Week, and is the author of multiple technology books.
Amy stepped into college without having written a single line of code, but after seeing her first application run, she quickly fell in love with writing software. She has enjoyed working on highly-collaborative cross-functional product teams as a software craftsman, particularly at Pluralsight. Currently an Engineering Manager at Pluralsight, she is passionate about helping others learn and improve their craft. Her passions include TDD, pair programming, lean development, sharing knowledge with
... moreothers, and continually improving herself and her workplace.
Dr. Andrews’ technology career spans three decades. His roles included network manager New York City Department of Education, BMG Direct senior director of IT, and BNY Mellon dean of technology. His doctoral research at Teachers College Columbia found that critical thinking skills thrive in environments that are supportive of five essential elements in the mind of a critical thinker.
He teaches cyber security. He has integrated technology management with teaching at Columbia University and other
... more institutions in 30 countries. Other activities include: Google K-12 Think Tank adviser facilitating design thinking sessions at Google campuses in Texas, New York, and California. Manages leadership training and organizational transformation. Co-authored two (ISC)2 certification publications: CISSP/CCSP. Works with Suffolk County Deputy Commissioner Mention-Lewis and court judge Camacho in reducing prisoner recidivism. Facilitates transformational storytelling and design thinking sessions addressing social-cultural barriers and workplace integration issues.
Ami has been teaching, consulting, and mentoring data professionals for over 20 years.
Ami's broad theoretical knowledge in data management is complemented by extensive hands-on experience working as a data tier architect, performance tuning expert, and a SQL developer, while at the same time directing and teaching others how to get the most value from their data. Ami owns a US patent for an automatic solution for optimizing database performance.
Ami has been highly involved in the SQL communit
... morey, leading the Silicon Valley Microsoft Data Platform User Group, speaking at user groups, conferences, online events, and is a contributor to online forums. He was honored by the Microsoft MVP award for 11 years.
In his free time, Ami likes to take care of his 4 rescue cats, listen to music on his audiophile stereo system, and volunteer at animal shelters. Naturally, Ami is also a strict vegetarian. He loves riding his motorcycle on long trips across the country.
Shelley has 20+ years of experience in IT as an Entrepreneur, Manager, Trainer, Docker Community Leader, and Sitecore MVP. She has a passion for tiaras, technology, gaming, and general nerdery. She loves to learn new things as well as mentor and teach others. She teaches leadership, communication, Docker, and Sitecore development. Shelley aims to provide her students with an immersive learning experience, not just a bunch of lectures and handouts. She has studied learning and instructional desig
... moren so that she can combine her skills in development and training effectively. Many of her courses include entertaining animated scenarios using real experiences from her career to walk students through common workplace events to help visualize learning objectives. Shelley is currently a Co-Owner of HoffsTech, LLC, an organization that she started with her family to provide training and digital media production.
Jillian is a 20+ year technology industry veteran. She currently works at a Fortune 50 Enterprise, prior to that she spent 14 years at Verizon. She has worked in engineering, product management, project management, marketing operations and product marketing. Having worked in so many different roles, she had a unique end to end perspective from initial product development to bringing products to market.
She is a strong believer in ‘Technology for Good’ and works to bring it to the forefront of al
... morel messaging She is an author, speaker and believer in paying it forward helping people in the industry find their voice and share their accomplishments.
She currently resides in Massachusetts with her husband, daughter and dog. In her free time, she enjoys volunteering, spending time with her family, horseback riding, eating and working out.
Raina is a partner at The Fund LA, an early stage venture firm, CEO of Juggernaut, a brand movement agency and organizational change bureau. As a tech ethics advocate she helps makers, investors and consumers to get up to speed on data ethics. She is a Member of the Ad Council’s Issue Advisory Board and a mentor at Tech Stars LA. In the past she has led strategy and investments for the Technology Ethics portfolio at Omidyar Network and co-founded Mavin, an app engagement platform. She served in
... moreThe Obama Administration as Co-Director of Innovation at the BBG, and with the U.S. Department of State. Prior to that, Raina led Digital at Wieden+Kennedy New York and spent over a decade in advertising at BBH and R/GA. Raina holds degrees from Boston University, NYU’s ITP and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
John Elliott is a specialist in regulated security and data protection. His fascination is the way that people engage with security directives: whether that’s a company following external regulation, an information security team developing policies, an IT team following them, or a colleague who is just trying to do their job securely.
John has led information security and data protection functions in aviation and financial services. He’s represented both Visa Europe and Mastercard on the PCI S
... moreecurity Standards Council, and contributed to many of the PCI standards including PCI DSS v4.
He has LLM in Information Rights Law and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society - the Chartered Institute for IT.
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