Mike was the Head of Curriculum at Pluralsight, where he led the team that drove the vision and strategy for delivering world class technical content for professional technologists around the world working as developers, architects, IT operations professionals and data scientists and analysts. A former Microsoft C# MVP and multiple U.S. patent holder, Mike has over 20 years of experience developing high performance software systems and training developers around the world.
Zach is currently a Lead Software Developer at OpalSoft where he uses tools such as Scala, TypeScript, Python, Docker, Node, and Angular. Zach has a passion for GIS programming along with open-source software. You can view some of his work on GitHub (https://github.com/zbennett10) and Stack Overflow (https://stackoverflow.com/users/6879849/zachary-bennett).
Scott is the CEO of Elega Corporation, a videogame developer and educational content creator, and a Salesforce architect in the energy industry. He has produced business applications as a professional programmer for a decade across industries including litigation support, renewable energy, and natural gas using programming languages such as Python, Rust, C#, and database technologies. Under Elega Corporation, Scott is the lead designer and programmer on their city management game, Kalling Kingdo
... morem, first released in 2019. His formal education is in behavioral science with a BS in psychology and sociology from the University of Houston.
Shaun Meyer is a software development pro with 25+ years of experience in C, C++, C#, JavaScript and Rust. He's managed people and products but his first love will always be code.
Giovanni Dicanio is a computer programmer specialized in both cross-platform C and C++, and Windows operating system development. Giovanni wrote computer programming articles on C++, OpenGL and other programming subjects on Italian computer magazines. He recently authored some C++ feature articles for MSDN Magazine, too. He contributed code to some open-source projects as well. His computer programming experience dates back to the glorious Commodore 64 and Amiga 500 golden days, with Basic and a
... moressembly. Giovanni likes helping people solving C and C++ programming problems on forums including Stack Overflow. He has held the Microsoft MVP Award for Visual C++ since 2007 for his contributions to the C++ development community, first on NNTP newsgroups then on forums.
Ed graduated from the University of Dayton in 1995 with a BS in Computer Science and often wishes he could break the secrets of quantum physics to return to that time.
Later Ed contracted with the Department of Homeland Security to be part of a team which built a counter-terrorism system before moving on to the FBI’s counter-intelligence division where he worked with the Advanced Concepts Unit building software solutions to address difficulties that the bureau faced.
He decided to move back
... moreto the Cleveland area to be near family as his daughter turned 3 years old and took a position with One Call Now as the Director of Software Development. When One Call Now was bought out, he joined the architecture team at National Interstate Insurance as the enterprise architect.
Mr. Curren hold 3 patents for software innovations, is an occasional guest lecturer at the University of Akron and loves to marry his passion for technology with his passion for flying.