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Andy cut his teeth
working in various
start-ups, before
being bought up by Cisco in
- After a few years at Cisco,
the pull of the start-up world
was too much to resist, and
Andy became a co-founder of
Rock Solid Knowledge.
Andrew
ClymerAustin is a
founding director
of Sixty North, a
software consulting, training
and application development
company. He is also an
experienced presenter and
teacher, having spoken at a
number of conferences and
software groups.
Austin
BinghamBob is a database-
centric application
practitioner and
architect, writer,
instructor, course author and
Developer Skills Partner for
SQL skills. Over the past few
years he’s been writing and
teaching his SQL Server
2005-2012 courses worldwide.
Bob
BeaucheminDan is a senior
BI consultant for
Pragmatic Works.
He focuses on learning new
BI technologies and training
others how to best implement
the technology. He is also a
regular speaker at developer/
database conferences and
user group meetings.
Dan
ClarkDavid is a principal
technologist at
Content Master
and, for the past 18 months,
has been working on a
number of projects with the
patterns & practices group at
Microsoft. David has a PhD in
Computation, specialising in
image and signal processing.
David
BritchDavid is an
experienced agile
consultant, coach
and trainer with more than
25 years of IT experience.
A thought-leader in the
field of agile testing and
Specification by example, he is
a regular speaker at events and
conferences across Europe.
David
EvansDino is a trainer and
software consultant
based in Rome.
A member of the IDesign team,
he specialises in Microsoft
.NET technologies, and spends
most of his time teaching and
consulting across Europe and
the USA.
Dino
EspositoEewei has worked
in the new media
creative industry
since 1993, and founded
HaaYaa.com to collaborate with
the media industry. He also
teaches Lean Startup and Lean
UX techniques at the Kingston
Business School and Adaptive
Marketing Institute in India.
Eewei
ChenGil is an expert in
web development
and Microsoft web
and data platforms. He works
as a senior consultant and
architect at Sela Group. And
he is currently consulting
for various enterprises and
companies, helping to develop
web and RIA-based solutions.
Gil
FinkGiles works in
the Developer
and Platform
Evangelism Group in Microsoft
UK as a technical specialist
covering development tools.
He specialises in Application
Lifecycle Management tooling
of Team Foundation Server
and Visual Studio.
Giles
DaviesIordanis is a
software engineer
with eight years
of experience on the full
stack. Based in London, he is
currently the Android team
lead at Shazam, where he is
trying to promote BDD and
software craftsmanship
to developers.
Iordanis
GiannakakisEd is an experienced
software developer
and evangelist,
who has been programming
professionally for more than
25 years. He is now working
for a major manufacturer and
retailer in the UK, leading the
development team responsible
for the ecommerce systems.
Ed
CourtenayIdo is a senior
architect and trainer
at Sela Group,
and an expert on Windows
Azure and web technologies,
such as WCF, ASP.NET, IIS
and Silverlight. He is also a
Microsoft Integrated Systems
MVP and a Microsoft certified
trainer (MCT).
Ido
FlatowNeal is director,
software architect
and meme wrangler
at ThoughtWorks, a global IT
consultancy focused on end-
to-end software development
and delivery. He is also an
internationally acclaimed
speaker, speaking at more than
300 conferences worldwide.
Neal
Fo r dNuno is the Director
of Cloud Services,
Europe, at Aditi
Technologies, and has more
than 14 years of experience
in the industry. His main
focus is helping customers
identify, plan, manage and
develop software products
and solutions in the cloud.
Nuno Filipe
Mendes GodinhoKlaus provides
independent SQL
Server consulting
services across Europe and
the US. He has worked with
SQL Server 2005/2008/
2012/2014 from the very
beginning, and in 2004/2005
was honoured with the MVP
award from Microsoft.
Richard has
worked in the
software industry
for more than 20 years,
starting with mainframes
through the early years
of client/server to today’s
service-oriented world. He
now focuses on WCF, BizTalk,
Workflow and Azure.
Richard
BlewettRobert works for
Schwans Shared
Services, LLC
providing business solutions
with web technologies and
leads Robert Boedigheimer
Consulting, LLC. He has been
designing and developing web
sites for 19 years, from the early
days of ASP and ASP.NET.
Robert
BoedigheimerSasha is the CTO
of Sela Group, a
Microsoft C# MVP,
and an international consultant
and trainer. He is also the author
of numerous training courses,
covering parallel programming,
Android and iOS application
development, .NET debugging
and .NET performance.
Sasha
GoldshteinShay is a Microsoft
C# MVP and the
author of IronRuby
Unleashed. With more than
10 years of experience in the
software industry, Friedman
co-founded CodeValue,
where he creates products for
developers, consults and runs
courses around the world.
Shay
FriedmanSimon works as
an independent
consultant,
specialising in software
architecture, technical
leadership and the balance
with agility. He is the founder
of Coding the Architecture,
a website about pragmatic,
hands-on software architecture.
Simon
BrownUdi is the Software
Simplist, an
internationally
renowned expert on software
architecture and design, and
one of the world’s thought-
leaders in service-oriented
architecture and domain-
driven design. He is also the
creator of NServiceBus.
Udi
DahanPearl was most
recently the
Senior Manager
Research & Technology at
the Canadian Film Centre’s
Media Lab and she is currently
a lead front-end web developer
on the beta.telus.com redesign
project at TELUS.
Pearl
ChenKlaus
AschenbrennerPaul
ArdeleanuPaul is an
experienced iOS and
web tinker, trainer
and mentor, currently teaching
iOS at SkillsMatter in London,
UK. He started programming
back when Fortran was cool
and graduated with a PhD
in Computational Physics
from UCLan.
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