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.
Craig Shoemaker is a Senior Content Developer for Microsoft on the Azure Container Apps and Azure Static Web Apps teams. On some days he's building internal tools to keep Microsoft employees productive, and others days creating guidance used by hundreds of thousands of developers.
Additionally, Craig is a best selling Pluralsight author and co-host of the Web Rush podcast.
You can reach Craig on Twitter at @craigshoemaker or join the conversation at Web Rush https://webrush.io.
Gill Cleeren is a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP and Pluralsight author. Gill is the CTO of Xebia Microsoft Services Belgium and focuses on web and mobile architecture. He's also a frequent speaker at many international conferences. Gill also founded Techorama, the biggest IT conference in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Matt makes products that help people learn. Through a career spanning film, video, design, development, product management, and course authoring
Matt is a passionate elearning professional. Since he began working in technology during middle school, Matt's career has spanned film, video, design, development, product management, and course authoring. He is currently the Vice President of Product at Innovative Language Learning, building a learner-centered platform for students to reach their langu
... moreage goals. As a committed generalist, Matt believes learning diverse subjects can benefit one's thinking in unpredictable and immeasurable ways. Matt is a strong believer in the growing capability of technology to teach concepts across geographic and economic barriers. Hailing from Idaho, Matt lived for six years in Tokyo and now lives in Salt Lake City.
Nate's first program was written in QBasic on an 8086 clone his dad built. Since then he's written applications in C++, .NET, and Node.js. He spent the first 12 years of his career writing Windows applications before transitioning to write applications for the web. Regardless of the language or type of application he's written, he strives for writing clean, testable, and maintainable code. In addition to his day job as a developer, Nate also enjoys speaking at various conferences. He will typica
... morelly be found talking about topics such as TDD, clean code, or professionalism.
Michael Van Sickle is an application architect in Akron, Ohio. He started
his career as a mechanical engineer, designing components for the automotive
industry, before changing to software engineering. He is passionate about learning new
programming languages and is comfortable working in Java, C#, JavaScript, PHP, and F#.
Mike also loves learning about user experience design
and is taking a lead role in his company's attempt to make applications that
are elegant and simple. When he i
... mores not writing code, Mike
loves to go camping and take long walks with his wife
and two girls.
Max Firtman is a mobile and web developer, trainer, speaker, and writer. He has authored many books, including Programming the Mobile Web and High Performance Mobile Web published by O'Reilly Media, and many online courses at different publishers. He is a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide and he has been widely recognized for his work in the mobile-web community. He teaches mobile, HTML5, PWA and web performance trainings for top companies around the world.
Chris B. Behrens is a writer, speaker and software developer, specializing in DevOps. He has been a developer and architect for more than twenty years focusing on small to medium size companies and the development changes they face. He focuses on his flavor of Fear Based Development, whereby a developer ranks their tasks in descending order of anxiety, and how to tackle them in that order. Chief among these anxiety-inducing processes is software deployment, a topic that Behrens focuses upon. He
... morelives in Kennedale, TX with his wife and children.
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.