Speakers at DevWeek 2012
DevWeek 2012 features a number of the world’s best-known experts on software development, who between them have written dozens of books and hundreds of magazine articles.
They include:
Dave Wheeler Dave is an independent software consultant specialising in Microsoft .NET technologies. He’s particularly fond of WPF and Silverlight, but to remain grounded in reality he also works extensively with ASP.NET and is a moderator on Microsoft’s ASP.NET forums. When not writing software, Dave writes and teaches various .NET courses for DevelopMentor, writes articles and speaks at various conferences. |
Scott Allen Scott is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on connected systems and web development. He has worked on everything from 8-bit embedded devices to large scale web sites during his 15+ years in commercial software development. Since 2001, Scott has focused on server-side and web technologies, like ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Workflow, Silverlight, and LINQ. He is a regular speaker at conferences like VSLive!, as well as code camps and user groups. Scott has been recognised as a Microsoft MVP since 2005, and has written or co-authored several books on Microsoft technologies. He founded the site OdeToCode.com in 2004, and joined Pluralsight in 2007. |
Jeff Prosise Jeff is cofounder of Wintellect, a developer consulting and education firm that provides services to companies all over the world. He has written nine books and hundreds of magazine articles on computer programming, and today focuses most of his energy on Web technologies such as HTML5 and Silverlight, as well as on writing applications for Windows phones and Windows 8 Metro. A reformed engineer who discovered after college that there’s more to life than computing loads on mounting brackets, Jeff is known to go out of his way to get wet in some of the world’s best dive spots and to spend way too much time building and flying R/C aircraft. |
Christian Weyer Christian is co-founder of thinktecture, a European company aiding and supporting software architects and developers in designing and implementing distributed solutions. He has modelled and implemented distributed applications with Java, COM, DCOM, COM+, Web Services and other technologies over the years, and recently he has been focusing on the ideas and concepts of service-orientation and their practical translation in customer projects, primarily using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). |
David Starr David is the chief craftsman for Scrum.org, where he works to improve the professionalism of software development. He focuses on agile software development, the Visual Studio ALM platform, and patterns and practices in .NET. He enjoys helping software development teams improve and expressing human intent to computers. David is a technical contributor at Pluralsight, a Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP, host of the Pluralcast podcast, and the founder of the blogging community ElegantCode.com. |
Andrew Clymer Andy is a freelance IT consultant specialising in .NET-based technology. His last ‘real’ job was at Cisco Systems, where he was a lead architect for Cisco’s identity solutions. Prior to Cisco he worked in various small start-ups. He teaches various .NET courses for DevelopMentor, including Guerrilla .NET and Essential .NET. |
Neal Ford Neal is an application architect at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. He is also a designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, courseware, video/DVD presentations, and author of various books including The Art of Java Web Development and the 2006 No Fluff, Just Stuff anthology. His primary consulting focus is the building of large-scale enterprise applications. He is a regular speaker at various conferences worldwide. |
Dominick Baier Dominick leads the security curriculum at DevelopMentor. This includes teaching and authoring courses about .NET, ASP.NET, WinFX, and ‘Vista’ security. He holds a degree in Computer Science, is a certified BS7799/ISO17799 Lead Auditor, and speaks at various conferences around the world about application security. When not teaching he spends his time researching security, doing audits and penetration tests, and helping other developers worldwide to build more secure applications. Currently he is writing a book about ASP.NET security for MS Press. Dominick is a Microsoft MVP in the ‘Visual Developer – Security’ category. |
Kevlin Henney Kevlin is an independent consultant and trainer based in the UK. His development interests are in patterns, programming, practice and process. He has been a columnist for various magazines and web sites, including Better Software, The Register, Application Development Advisor, Java Report and the C/C++ Users Journal. Kevlin is co-author of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages, two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series. He is also editor of the 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know site and book. |
Oliver Sturm Oliver Sturm is an associated consultant at thinktecture and a course author at Pluralsight. He is a well-known author of training classes and articles, a regular speaker at world-wide developer conferences, an expert on programming languages, a Microsoft C# MVP, an experienced architect of .NET software solutions, and a distinguished expert in the specialised area of DevExpress UI components and frameworks. |
Sahil Malik Sahil is the founder and principal of Winsmarts.com, and has been a Microsoft MVP and INETA Speaker for the past eight years. He is the author of various books and articles in both the .NET and SharePoint space, and a consultant and trainer who delivers training and talks at conferences internationally. Sahil has trained for the best names in the Microsoft technology space, and has architected and delivered SharePoint based solutions for extremely high profile clients. He has been deeply involved in SharePoint 2010, and is the author of Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Building Solutions for SharePoint 2010, published by Apress. |
Bob Beauchemin Bob is a database-centric application practitioner and architect, instructor, course author, writer, and developer skills partner for SQLskills. Over the past few years he’s been writing and teaching his SQL Server 2005 and 2008 courses to students worldwide through the Ascend program, the Metro (SQL Server 2008 Jumpstart) program, and client-focused classes. He is lead author of the books A Developer’s Guide to SQL Server 2005 and A First Look at SQL Server 2005 For Developers, and author of Essential ADO.NET, and he has written articles and whitepapers on SQL Server and other database technologies for MSDN, SQL Server Magazine, and other publications. Bob appears regularly as a speaker at SQL Connections and TechEd in the US and Europe. |
Simon Brown Simon is an independent consultant based in Jersey, the founder of Coding the Architecture and either a software architect who codes or a software developer who understands architecture. Having successfully delivered a variety of projects on the .NET and Java platforms, Simon now also uses his experience to train and coach teams in delivering better software. |
Robert Boedigheimer Robert has been designing and developing web sites for the past 13 years, including the early days of ASP and ASP.NET. He is a columnist for aspalliance.com, an ASP.NET MVP, an “early achiever” MCSD for .NET with C#, an MCPD: Web with C#, and a 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Robert has spoken at industry conferences including TechEd, AJAXWorld and VSLive. He works for Schwans Shared Services, providing business solutions with web technologies, and leads Robert Boedigheimer Consulting, LLC. |
Richard Blewett Richard is a founder of Rock Solid Knowledge Ltd, a UK based consultancy. He mainly focuses on technologies that enable developers to build large-scale systems on the Microsoft platform such as WCF, BizTalk, Workflow and Azure. He is a Connected Systems MVP and can often be found helping people on various newsgroups, mailing lists and web forums. Richard is a well-known conference speaker having spoken at TechEd, DevWeek, Software Architect, BASTA! and Oredev. He is also a DevelopMentor instructor, where he writes and teaches material on core .NET, WCF, Workflow and a whole range of other technologies. |
Hadi Hariri Hadi is a developer, speaker, podcaster and technical evangelist at JetBrains. His passions include software architecture and web development. A book author and frequent contributor to developer publications, Hadi has been speaking at various industry events for over a decade. He is based in Spain where he lives with his wife and two sons, and runs the .NET Malaga User Group. He is also a C# MVP. |
Shay Friedman Shay is a Visual C#/IronRuby MVP and the author of IronRuby Unleashed. With more than 10 years of experience in the software industry, Friedman now works for CodeValue, a company he has co-founded, where he creates products for developers, consults, and conducts courses around the world about dynamic languages and web development. |
Dino Esposito Dino 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. He has hands-on experience in architecting and building distributed systems for banking and insurance companies. A prolific author, Dino writes columns for various magazines, and has written a number of books on various cutting-edge topics. An ASP.NET MVP, he regularly speaks at industry conferences around the world, including TechEd, DevConnections, Software Architect and DevWeek. |
James Hughes James is a technical architect at Kainos Software Ltd. He is the technical head of Kainos’ Microsoft Capability, as well as being responsible for leading developer engagement throughout the company. He is a fan of lightweight techniques and technologies, and insists on proper justification for all technology decisions. When not in work James likes blogging on new and interesting technologies via his blog. |
Dejan Sarka Dejan focuses on development of database and Business Intelligence applications. Besides projects, he spends about half of his time training and mentoring. He is the founder of the Slovenian SQL Server and .NET Users Group, and is the main author or co-author of eight books about databases and SQL Server. Dejan has also developed two courses for Solid Quality Mentors – Data Modeling Essentials and Data Mining with SQL Server 2008. |
Kevin Jones Kevin is part of Rock Solid Knowledge, a UK-based firm offering consultancy, training and mentoring in .NET and Java techologies. He has been involved in software development and design for longer than he cares to remember, originally as a mainframe programmer and more recently developing .NET and Java applications. He’s been programming Windows since Windows 1.04, and Windows 32 since the first beta release in July 1992, Java since 1996 and .NET since 2002. Kevin has been involved in training and consultancy since 1990, and helped co-found DevelopMentor UK in 1997. He was the co-author of Code Smarter with Design Patterns in .NET classes, and co-author of the books Servlets and JavaServer Pages: The J2EE Technology Web Tier and Team Development with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. He worked as an architect at Confused.com during the re-design of the website and underlying systems there. He is currently employed as a senior technical architect at LeMans Holdings plc. He could tell you what he is doing there but then he would have to shoot you. |
Jim Wooley By day, Jim is a consultant for Slalom Consulting. In his free time, he is a frequent speaker, INETA Regional Speaker, MVP, and author of LINQ in Action. He is always striving to stay at the forefront of technology and enjoys the thrill of a new challenge. He has been active evangelising LINQ since its announcement in 2005. In addition, he attempts to pass on the insights he has gained by being active in the community, including organising and speaking at code camps and regional events, including DevLink, DevWeek, CodeMash, CodeStock, VS Live, and MIX. |
Klaus Aschenbrenner Klaus is an independent SQL Server consultant, working with companies across Europe and the US, and helping them to understand, use, and run SQL Server installations in their environments. He’s worked with the .NET Framework and SQL Server 2005/2008 from the early days, and from 2004 to 2005 he was recognised as an MVP by Microsoft. Klaus is the author of Pro SQL Server 2008 Service Broker, which was published by Apress in 2008. |
Matt Milner Matt is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on connected systems technologies (WCF, Windows WF, BizTalk, AppFabric and the Windows Azure). He is also an independent consultant specialising in Microsoft .NET application design and development. As a writer, Matt has contributed to several journals and magazines, including MSDN Magazine, where he authored the Workflow content for the Foundations column. He regularly shares his love of technology by speaking at local, regional and international conferences such as TechEd. Microsoft has recognised Matt as an MVP for his community contributions around connected systems technology. |
Matt Turner Matt is a software engineer whose career has covered embedded C to managed languages and web technologies. He has always been interested in his managers reducing process to a bare minimum so he can get on with his work. He currently works at RedGate Software, a leading proponent of Agile development in the UK. |
Mark Wightman Mark is head of development and project management at Red Gate Software. He has previously worked as a developer, project manager and development manager. Mark has introduced Scrum and Agile development practices to a number of companies, and has more than nine years of Agile experience. In his current role, he is responsible for inspiring Red Gate’s development teams to even bigger and better things, and pushing the Agile envelope. |
Brian A. Randell Brian is a senior consultant with MCW Technologies LLC. He’s been building software for over 20 years, and spends his time speaking, teaching and writing about Microsoft technologies such as Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio Team System. He’s a regular speaker at technical conferences around the world, including Microsoft’s TechEd and PDC events. |
Allen Holub Allen is an internationally acknowledged expert in OO-Design, Agile Process, Java, and Cloud-based web application development. He provides training and consulting services in those areas, and even slings code on occasion. He’s spoken at numerous conferences over the years, has taught regularly for the University of California, and presents in-house classes for companies worldwide. Allen has authored nine books (including Holub on Patterns, Taming Java Threads, and Compiler Design in C), and 200+ magazine articles for various publications. |
Gary Short Until recently, Gary worked for Developer Express as the technical evangelist on the frameworks team. He has a deep interest in technical architecture, especially in the areas of technical debt and refactoring. Gary is a C# MVP and gives presentations at user groups and conferences throughout the UK. As well as C#, he also has an interest in dynamic languages such as Smalltalk, Ruby and Python, as well as iPhone development using Objective-C. |
Tobias Komischke Tobias has been working in the area of user experience for over ten years, leading projects and teams to create user interfaces in various industries. He is Director of User Experience at Infragistics, a software company which specialises in user interface development tools and services. While he is deeply familiar with all aspects of user experience, his specialty is Human Factors Engineering, which is rooted in his academic background in cognitive psychology. Tobias is a frequent speaker at various conferences and author for technical journals, magazines and blogs. |
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