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Steve Buchanan is a startup advisor, and seasoned Principal PM Manager at Microsoft, driving innovation and enhancing the cloud experience for users worldwide. With over twenty years in the tech industry, Steve brings a unique blend of leadership, strategic planning, and technical expertise to one of the world's leading tech companies. An accomplished thought leader, Steve has shared insights on over a dozen podcasts, co-authored MN’s computer science plan, he authored 8 technical books, a resp... moreected Pluralsight and O’Reilly author, empowering tech pros to master cutting-edge tech. He is a former 10-time Microsoft MVP cotninuing as a tech community champion. Steve’s contributions to tech have been widely recognized, including features in prominent publications such as the Star Tribune (the fifth-largest newspaper in the U.S.), one of the “25 ITSM Experts to Watch in 2017,” recognition as an “IT Unity Community Champ”, listed as one of Onalytica's “Who’s Who in Cloud?” top 50 thought leaders, and honored with the 2024 Tekne Exceptional Technology Leadership Award. Steve is also a sought-after speaker, having delivered engaging presentations at numerous high-profile events, including the keynote for Minnebar 18, and presenting at DevOps Days, Open Source North, Midwest Management Summit (MMS), Microsoft Ignite, Experts Live Europe, and OSCON. He stays active in the technical community and enjoys blogging about his adventures in the world of tech at www.buchatech.com

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan is a Senior Software Engineer from Rabwah, Pakistan, and likes .NET Core and Node.js for regular everyday development. He is an expert with Cloud, Mobile, and API development. Afzaal has experience with the Azure platform and likes to build cross-platform libraries/software with .NET Core. Afzaal is an Alibaba Cloud MVP, twice he has been awarded Microsoft MVP status for his community leadership in software development, five times CodeProject MVP status for technical writing... more and mentoring, and 4 times C# Corner MVP status in the same field. Afzaal is an active open source contributor on GitHub and GitLab, you can find him as afzaal-ahmad-zeeshan.