Jeffrey Richter is an Azure Software Architect and author of several best-selling Windows and .NET programming books as well as many MSDN magazine feature articles and columns. He is also a co-founder of Wintellect, a software consulting and training company where he has authored many videos available on WintellectNOW.

Pavel Yosifovich is a developer, trainer author and speaker. He's the co-author of "Windows Internals 7th edition Part 1" (2017) and author of "WPF 4.5 Cookbook" (2012). Pavel is also a former MVP and a Pluralsight author. He can be reached at zodiacon@live.com or through his blog.

In addition to developing and shipping software on Microsoft stacks for 25+ years, Christophe Nasarre has been working as a technical reviewer for MSPress, Addison-Wesley and other publishing companies since 1996 on books such as "CLR via C#" and the last editions of Windows Internals.

He is providing tools and insights on .NET and Windows development via his blog. Christophe also presented technical sessions on stage both internally at Microsoft or for ISVs and customers at public events.

Steffen Forkmann works as a Software Developer on large billing systems and therefore has great experience in applying functional concepts to real-world applications. Steffen is a very active part in the F# open source community and works on many OSS projects like FAKE — F# Make, Paket and the F# compiler.

Dylan Beattie is a systems architect and software developer, who has built everything from tiny standalone websites to large-scale distributed systems. He's currently the CTO at Skills Matter in London, where he juggles his time between working on their software platform, supporting their conference and community teams, and speaking at various conferences and events they organise in London. From 2003 to 2018, he worked as webmaster, then IT Manager, and then systems architect at Spotlight, where his first-hand experience of watching an organisation and their codebase evolve over more than a decade provided him with a unique insight into how everything from web standards and API design to Conway's Law and recruitment ends up influencing a company’s code and culture.

Dylan is actively involved in the international software development community. As well as his work with Skills Matter, he runs the London .NET User Group, he's on the programme committee for NDC Conferences, and he's a frequent speaker at conferences and technical events around the world.

Dylan grew up in southern Africa, moving to the UK with his family when he was ten. He's a Microsoft MVP and holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Southampton. He's a guitar player and songwriter, known for creating musical parodies about software development. He's into skiing, scuba diving, Lego, cats, travel and photography, and he's normally found hanging around user groups, pubs and rock bars in London wearing a big black hat.

Alexandre Mutel is a Lead Software Architect at Unity Technologies. He is an Open-Source developer that has been contributing to several OSS projects including SharpDX, Markdig, Zio. He has been awarded as an MVP since 2014 in Visual Studio and Development Technologies.

Alexandre is passionate about working on a wide range of different problems, from low-level to high-level, in the domain of real-time graphics rendering, GPGPU, audio synthesis, efficient usage of managed languages, documentation and code generation, language design, building workflows.

Gerald Versluis (@jfversluis) is an all-round software developer, Microsoft MVP and three-time author from the Netherlands. After years of experience working with Xamarin, Azure and .NET technologies, he has been involved in a number of different projects and has been building several apps and solutions.

Not only does he like to code, but he is also passionate about spreading his knowledge — as well as gaining some in the bargain. Gerald involves himself in speaking, providing training sessions and writing blogs or articles in his free time. Twitter: @jfversluis | Website: https://gerald.verslu.is

Вагиф работает в норвежской компании Miles. Его опыт программирования насчитывает около трёх десятилетий. В настоящее время он занимается разработками систем на F# и C#. Вагиф часто выступает на конференциях, принимает участие в опенсорс-проектах и поддерживает Simple.OData.Client.

Raffaele Rialdi is a senior Software Architect working as a consultant, speaker and trainer. Since 2003, he is a Microsoft MVP in the Developer Security category. His passion for the community brought him to be a member of the board of UGIdotNET, president of DotNetLiguria and co-founder of the Italian C++ user group. He is currently working as an architect and developer on the backend of an enterprise project with a specific focus on code generation and working on cross-platform mobile and IoT development in both C# and C++ languages.

Соучредитель казанской аутсорс-компании «Хайтек Груп». Кроме ведения бизнеса преподает в Высшей школе информационных технологий и информационных систем Казанского федерального университета и ведет блог на Хабре. По запросу «Как писать тесты» в Google первым результатом выйдет его статья.

Суммарный стаж в программировании и управлении разработкой — 10 лет. За это время прошел путь от программиста в казанской веб-студии до руководителя отдела качества в финансовой индустрии. Работал в компаниях Казани, Москвы, Питера и Антверпена (Бельгия).

Считает, что технологии — это не «вещь в себе», а инструменты для достижения целей. Каждая — со своей областью применения.

.NET-разработчик в Контур. В компании занимается общей инфраструктурой: разрабатывает облачную платформу хостинга приложений. Интересуется внутренним устройством .NET и Windows и использует эти знания на практике.

Author of the Pro .NET Memory Management book. Programming for over a dozen years, solving performance problems and architectural puzzles in the .NET world, speeding up web applications. Independent consultant, blogger, speaker and fan of Twitter. He also shares his passion as a trainer at Bottega IT Solutions in the area of .NET, especialy about application performance and diagnostics. Founder of the Warsaw Web Performance group. Microsoft MVP in the Visual Studio and Development Tools category. Co-founder of https://dotnetos.org initiative.