Anthony is a Principal Field Solution Architect at Pure Storage as well as a Pluralsight Author, a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Linux Expert, and Corporate Problem Solver. Anthony designs solutions, deploys the technology, and provides expertise on business system performance, architecture, and security. Anthony has a Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science with research publications in high performance/low latency data access algorithms and spatial database systems.
Mike Pfeiffer is a twenty year IT industry veteran, published author, and international conference speaker. He's a former architect for Amazon Web Services and engineer for Microsoft. Today Pfeiffer serves as Chief Technologist at CloudSkills.io.
Matt is an independent consultant with expertise in web application design and development and systems integration. As a writer, Matt has contributed to several journals and magazines such as MSDN Magazine. Matt regularly shares his love of technology by speaking at local, regional, and international conferences such as DevWeek, Prairie Dev Con, That Conference, and VS Live. As a Pluralsight Author, Matt has created more than 30 courses on the topics of web, mobile, and cloud development.
Stephen W. Thomas is an Independent Azure Architect specializing in hybrid integration and cloud-based solutions using Logic Apps, BizTalk Server, Service Bus, and other Azure technologies. He started his career with both a Chemical Engineering degree and a Technical Entrepreneurial Certificate from the University of Iowa in 1998. He worked in the paper industry for one year. At the same time, he ran an online collectible business and began to realize his passion was technology. He sold hi busin
... moreess in 2000 and went to work for a Big-5 consulting firm. This brought him down the path to become an industry expert in Microsoft Integration using BizTalk Server and Azure. Stephen is a 13-time Microsoft MVP for Azure & Microsoft Integration, a published author, content creator for Pluralsight, and a strong community contributor. As an Independent Consultant, Stephen gets to work with a large variety of customers all over the world provided non-biased advice on integration and cloud computing. He blogs frequently about Azure, Logic Apps, and Cloud Computing and can be followed on Twitter.
Ivan is a technical architect and independent cloud consultant based in London, UK with over 15 years of experience in designing and developing applications on a wide range of stacks, primarily but not limited to Microsoft. Although, his preferred specialization is backend architecture and cloud computing, Ivan has worked professionally with just about every major Microsoft technology. Today, he's excited about public clouds especially Microsoft Azure, and spreading the knowledge around scalable
... more architecture, clean code, iterative design, microservice culture, and DDD. His clients range from start-ups to government organizations, and event Microsoft itself.
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.
Alan Smith is a Windows Azure developer, trainer, mentor and evangelist at Active Solution in Stockholm. He has a strong hands-on philosophy and focusses on embracing the power and flexibility of cloud computing to deliver engaging and exciting demos.
Alan has held the MVP title for 10 years, and is currently MVP of the year for Windows Azure. He is in the organization team for the CloudBurst conference and the Global Windows Azure bootcamp.