Wes Higbee is passionate about helping companies achieve remarkable results with technology and software. He’s had extensive experience developing software and working with teams to improve how software is developed to meet business objectives. Wes launched Full City Tech to leverage his expertise to help companies delight customers.
Although his primary focus is on outcomes, implementation often includes technical competency. Wes frequently speaks about impactful aspects of software developm
... moreent including effective automated testing, database delivery automation, distributed version control, refactoring, aesthetics of code, continuous integration, and continuous delivery. He speaks professionally to help organizations improve and volunteers at user groups, code camps, and community organizations.
He’s a Pluralsight author. He writes extensively about both technical and non-technical aspects of software development. His written work includes articles featured on VeraSage, MSDN Magazine, InfoQ, and JetBrain’s TeamCity Blog. He’s been interviewed on The Businessology Show and Art of Value about how important value is in software development. And, he occasionally gets highly technical in a shared screencast or webinar.
Elton is a 10-time Microsoft MVP, author, trainer and speaker. He spent most of his career as a consultant working in Microsoft technologies, architecting and delivering complex solutions for industry leaders. He has delivered APIs on Azure serving millions of clients daily, Big Data solutions processing billions of events weekly, and cutting-edge solutions powered by containers. Elton's experience with .NET goes from .NET 1.0 running on Windows Server, right up to .NET Core running on Linux. Wh
... moreen Docker emerged as the best way to run applications, Elton made containers his focus, and now he works for Docker. He travels the world helping people understand what containers, Kubernetes and DevOps can do for them and their software delivery.
Philippe has been working for more than 20 years as a freelance DevOps, trainer and startup founder. He is "Certified Kubernetes Application Developer". He has a physicist engineer background and tries to apply the same approach in IT as in engineering: understand the basic concepts, abstract the complexity and propose “keep it simple” solutions. His courses are following the same idea.
Andrew is a SQL Server DBA and Microsoft Data Platform MVP. Originally from Swansea, Wales but is now based in Dublin, Ireland. Andrew specializes in SQL Server architecture and performance with a keen interest in containers and Kubernetes. You can find him on twitter @dbafromthecold and blogging at dbafromthecold.com
Nigel is an IT professional with over 25 years of experience, gained in technical and management roles. He started his career in IT Operations, before co-founding and leading a company focused on delivering systems management solutions to some of the UK's largest companies. Recently, he has returned to his technical roots, and swapped the world of proprietary software for the open source domain. Nigel has an avid interest in the contemporary domain of microservices and container technologies. In
... more particular, he enjoys sharing his knowledge with others through different techniques of learning.
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
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.
Nigel is a popular figure in the tech industry, best-known for his videos and books on container technologies. He is currently a Docker Captain and spends most of his time working with Docker and Kubernetes. Prior to working with container technologies, Nigel has done everything from changing backup tapes and resetting passwords all the way up to designing and managing large-scale solutions in some of the most demanding corporate environments in the world. Nigel is also passionate about his fami
... morely, football (soccer), and cars.
Software Engineer by day, Pluralsight author by night, Bogdan likes to experiment with cutting-edge technologies and teach about them. His favorite talking subjects are streaming data, event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and cloud technologies.
He has several years of experience “cooking” software with JVM based languages, some flavors of web technologies, and garnishing with automated testing.
He holds a BS in Robotics where he spent countless hours programming microcontrollers an
... mored IoT devices and of course, building robots. There, he discovered his passion, designing, and coding complex systems so he pursued his dream and became a self-taught programmer.
Justin Boyer writes copy and content for tech companies. He started his IT career as a software developer, then moved into application security, becoming Security+ and CSSLP certified. After almost a decade in the tech industry building desktop, mobile, web, and cloud-based applications, Justin has launched a tech writing business to help software and security companies sell their products and services.
David has authored over 100 courses for Pluralsight.com
around enterprise data center technologies such as
cloud computing, virtualization, and (especially) VMware vSphere. He is a
partner at ActualTechMedia.com where he
creates compelling enterprise technology content, moderates online events,
and helps to connect some of the best-known technology companies in the
industry with the end user community. With over 20 years in enterprise
technology, he has served as an IT Manager, administrator, an
... mored instructor.
David is an 14 x vExpert, VCP, VCAP, & CCIE# 9369.
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