I am Adam Furmanek and I am a professional software engineer for almost a decade. Right now I am at Amazon working with Big Data, Spark, and Machine Learning. I am always interested in digging deeper, exploring machine code and going through implementation details to better understand internals of the technologies I use every day. That's why I like debugging, decompiling and disassembling the code to understand memory models, concurrency problems and other details hidden deeply inside. In my free time I play ping-pong, watch Woody Allen's movies and blog stuff at http://blog.adamfurmanek.pl

Alain is a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies / Angular. He started working with Angular JS in 2011.

Since then he has worked with all Angular versions on a daily basis, both as a developer and as a technical trainer.

He is the organizer of the Google Developer Group chapter in Sacramento, California, an international conference speaker, and published author of several video courses.

Andreas spent most of his professional life and a career of over 20 years integrating "backend" applications. First inside or between Enterprises and Startups directly, then - "in the cloud".
Before that, Andreas dabbled with Virtual Reality in the 90s. In 2013, he started to work with Kinect for Windows V2 and something wonderful happened - Andreas had new fun with new toys and he was all set to work on new paradigms to interact with computers.
Then Microsoft HoloLens was announced and he expanded his focus on Mixed Reality applications and concepts.
He cannot stop talking about technology, which apparently some people like so Microsoft gave him the MVP award. Because he has shown leadership can advise C-levels and business, he also got accepted into the ranks of the Microsoft Regional Directors .
Andreas helps customers as a trusted advisor, external CTO and innovation consultant, he also produces exciting applications and solutions with a great team of skilled individuals.


Anuradha is a Tech enthusiast and JavaScript evangelist working as Development Specialist at Mediaocean. She is passionate about exploring new technologies and sharing knowledge through tech articles and talks. She has given local as well as international talks on accessibility. She aims to spread awareness and empower the community towards achieving the common goal of inclusion through technology.

Aras helps designers, product teams, and executives with using human-centric approaches in product development. The products he worked on are used by more than 160 million users worldwide. His book on making research a habit in product teams is scheduled for a 2020 release from O’Reilly. 

He was the Senior Vice President of experience design and front-end development at Garanti BBVA. His team worked on a broad range of areas, from mobile apps, web sites, ATMs to enterprise software, discovery, long-term strategic research. 

Prior to Garanti, he was the Product Director for ÇiçekSepeti, the largest flower and gifting site in the world. He was a Product Development Group Manager at Monitise, where his team of product managers and designers delivered top-notch digital experiences for leading financial institutions and e-commerce sites, such as İşBank, Visa, eBay, Turkcell, and Turkish Airlines. He was a UX planner at Intel where he led the UX planning for Tizen (with Samsung), worked on MeeGo (with Nokia) and adapted Intel's brand identity system for the software products. 

Previously, he was at Microsoft Research, where he developed a gestural system for interacting with displays remotely. He completed similar research efforts at the University of California, Irvine and Lancaster University, United Kingdom. He currently teaches human-centered design courses at Medipol University and Kadir Has University. 

Aras holds a BSc from Bilkent University and an MSc in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. He is an avid cook and he drives his colleagues crazy by winning all food-related trivia games.

Bill Wagner is one of the world's foremost C# developers and a member of the ECMA C# Standards Committee. He is President of the Humanitarian Toolbox, has been awarded Microsoft Regional Director and .NET MVP for 10+years, and was recently appointed to the .NET Foundation Advisory Council. He is currently with Microsoft, working on the .NET Core content team. He creates learning materials for developers interested in the C# language and .NET Core. Reach Bill at wiwagn@microsoft.com

Brady Gaster is a senior program manager in the ASP.NET team at Microsoft, where he works on SignalR, microservices and APIs, and integration with Azure service teams in hopes to make it exciting for developers who work on .NET apps to party in the cloud. You can find Brady on Twitter at @bradygaster when he's not learning with (or from) his 2 sons, tinkering with code, or making music in his basement using various synthesizers and guitars.

Brock Allen is a consultant specializing in .NET, web development, and web-based security. He also is an instructor for the training company DevelopMentor, associate consultant for Thinktecture, a contributor to the Thinktecture IdentityModel and IdentityServer open source projects and a contributor to the ASP.NET platform.

Cory is a Pluralsight author, Microsoft MVP, Software Architect, independent consultant, and international speaker. He has trained over 10,000 software developers at conferences and businesses worldwide on clean coding practices, front-end development, testing, and software architecture. He currently specializes in JavaScript and front-end development using React. Cory is author of multiple Pluralsight courses and is active on Twitter as @housecor.

Doug Bradbury started 8th Light’s mentorship program in 2008. He continued to evolve and enhance that program as 8th Light grew and he served in many roles including Director of Consulting, Director of Studio, Managing Director, and COO.
Doug recently left 8th Light to start One World Coders, an offshore software development consultancy that aims to take that mentorship across geographic and cultural borders to build affordable, world-class software teams.

Doug has personally mentored more than 40 Software Crafters and writes and speaks about mentorship to companies and groups across the globe. 
He authored the Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship and remain a part-owner of 8th Light.


Dylan Beattie is an independent consultant who specialises in helping organisations bridge the knowledge gap between software development and business strategy. He’s been building data-driven web applications since the 1990s; he’s managed teams, taught workshops, and worked on everything from tiny standalone websites to complex distributed systems. He’s a Microsoft MVP, and he regularly speaks at conferences and user groups all over the world.

Dylan is the creator of the Rockstar programming language, and he’s performed his software-themed parodies of classic rock songs all over the world as Dylan Beattie and the Linebreakers. He’s online at dylanbeattie.net and on Twitter as @dylanbeattie.

Emad Alashi is a software developer whose main interest is in web development, Software Architecture, Software Management, and the human interaction caught in between.

Emad speaks regularly in conferences and user groups, including NDC Sydney, Microsoft Ignite Australia, and in local user groups and code camps like Vic.Net, Azure Meetup, Azure Bootcamps, and Alt.Net in Melbourne Australia.

He is 4-times ASP.NET/IIS MVP, he hosts the DotNetArabi technical podcast, and on whatever time left he writes to his blog on emadashi.com.

Emad, and currently works as a Lead Consultant Telstra Purple, he can be found on twitter @emadashi.

Gary Short is a freelance data scientist. He specialises in machine learning and predictive analytics on the Azure Platform, but has an interest in cloud scale analytics in all forms, especially computational linguistics and social network analysis.

Polyglot Coding Architect in London, founder of #ldnug, speaker, tabletop gamer, geek. Tattooed, pierced, and bearded. The 'guv' on @BrighterCommand

Jeff Blankenburg spent the early part of his career in digital advertising, building websites for Victoria’s Secret, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Ford Motor Company, among others.  He also spent 8 years at Microsoft, primarily as an evangelist for any new technology he could get his hands on.  Today, he works on the Amazon Alexa team helping developers make Alexa even smarter. Jeff has also spoken at conferences all over the world, including London, Munich, Sydney, Tokyo, and New York, covering topics ranging from software development technologies to soft skill techniques. He also serves as an organizer for the Stir Trek conference.

Jeremy Likness is an internationally-selling author, keynote speaker and professional coder with a personal mission to empower developers to be their best. He has worked on commercial enterprise software for 25 years and specializes in web technology. Jeremy is a cloud advocate for Microsoft and lives with his wife, parrot, and German Shepherd near Seattle, WA. In his free time he enjoys running, hiking, and shooting 9-ball and one pocket. Follow him on his blog: https://blog.jeremylikness.com/

With 10 years of experience in software engineering Jernej has worked on full-stack .NET development, mobile applications, and Microsoft Cognitive Services. He worked on some of Australia's largest corporates with great customer satisfaction. 

Cloud and Big Data Architect. AWS Community Hero, Google Cloud Developer Expert, Microsoft Azure Insider. Lynda.com author. Currently working on Cloud-based bioinformatics projects.

Mark is the founder of RendleLabs, which is really just him playing with .NET Core, Docker, Azure, microservices and so on and then teaching other people about it and helping them build clean, stable, scalable solutions. He's been getting paid to do what he loves for nearly 30 years now, and still worries that somebody's going to notice and make him stop.

Mathias Brandewinder has been developing software on .NET for about 10 years, and loving every minute of it, except maybe for a few release days. His language of choice was C#, until he discovered F# and fell in love with it. He enjoys arguing about code and how to make it better, and gets very excited when discussing TDD or F#. His other professional interests include forecasting models, machine learning and applying math to solve business problems. Mathias is a Microsoft F# MVP and the founder of Clear Lines Consulting. He is based in San Francisco, blogs at www.clear-lines.com/blog

Michael is a Microsoft MVP and the author of the Hot Chocolate project (https://github.com/ChilliCream/hotchocolate), a platform for building GraphQL servers and clients in .NET. For the last three years, this open-source project is his main focus. 

Apart from his work in the open-source community, Michael works as a consultant to help companies to move to GraphQL. You can read about the Hot Chocolate project on his blog https://chillicream.com/blog/.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/michael_staib
GitHub: https://github.com/michaelstaib
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-staib-31519571/
MVP: https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5003672

Rochelle began her professional career serving in the United States Army JAG Corps for eight years serving in six combat missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Africa.  She held positions such as Prosecutor, Family Law Attorney, Civil Tort Attorney, and Criminal Defense Attorney.  Rochelle was also that first full-time and female NATO Anti-Corruption Advisor to the Afghan Police Inspector General helping to build an anti-corruption system within the Afghan Ministry of Interior while also an creating Anti-Corruption training curricula and programs for Afghan Police Leadership.  For her military service, Rochelle earned over 15 military awards to include the Afghanistan Campaign Medal with Campaign Star, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, and the Joint Service Achievement Medal.

Ms. Howard’s civilian government service includes serving as the Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Inspections and Evaluations Division at the District of Columbia Office of the Inspector General with additional work at the Department of Commerce Office of the Inspector General Investigation Division, and the Office of Personnel Management Office of the Inspector General Evaluation and Inspection Division. 

Rochelle earned her law degree from the Widener University School of Law, her master’s degree in business administration from the University of Maryland University College, and her Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology with a concentration in criminology and a minor in Spanish from Louisiana State University.  Rochelle is also a National Association of Civilian Oversight for Law Enforcement Certified Practitioner of Oversight.

Roy is the author of "The Art of Unit Testing", "Elastic Leadership" and the upcoming "Enterprise DevOps" books. He is an independent consultant working across Europe caching about TDD, Leadership, DevOps , and everything that is needed to make those three tick.  You can learn more at osherove.com

As a kid I enjoyed taking charge. 

Seeing my parents at points in their career as business owners imprinted in my mind. 

My supervisor at my first full-time job out of college asked me, “Where do you see yourself in 5 years?”

I responded, “Not here.” At that point I knew I wanted to own a business one day. 

Working for someone made me realize: freedom and flexibility of schedule is what motivates me. It’s my why.

As someone who is introverted, I prefer connecting with people individually or in small groups. For me it’s about quality over quantity. 

That’s why I initially chose coaching. Because I like to push myself to be better, I like to push my clients too. 

I value fitness, so I workout 5 times a week.

I value health, so I maintain a Keto lifestyle.

I value growth, so I put myself in uncomfortable situations because I like the challenge.

But earlier in my career the one area I feared as a leader was public speaking. I’d do it, but reluctantly.

Until one day I realized…I’m not a good speaker because I think I’m not one. 

So I decided to change my self-talk. From there I started hosting a monthly network event and volunteered to speak at my dad’s church once a month. 

In 2019, my goal was to land a TEDx Talk. I wanted to prove to myself I could do it. 

In 2020, I did my first TEDx Talk in Laie, on the island of Oahu in Hawaii entitled “Saving Soft Skills From Extinction.” 

So as I stand here today I want you to know my why hasn’t changed. 

As a husband and father, I care most about creating a lifestyle that allows me to spend time with my wife Lisa, daughter Kayla and son Isaiah when I want to. 

My hope is to give my kids the opportunity to chase their desired lifestyle because dad continues to do so on a daily basis.

Scott Hunter is responsible for the Microsoft’s .NET platform, which includes .NET Framework, .NET Core, ASP.NET, Entity Framework, .NET Tools, Web Tools and the managed languages (C#, F# and VB). Prior to leading the .NET Platform, Hunter helped the Azure Developer Experience team build the Azure SDK’s, App Service Tooling, Azure Redis Cache, Azure API Management, ASP.NET, Entity Framework and the Web Tooling. In his spare time he loves hiking mountains in Washington State and around the world.

Shahid is an independent consultant and Microsoft MVP based in the UK and operating across the globe.
With over a decade of experience in .NET he works with companies to help migrate their existing applications and processes to the Cloud.
He is a passionate proponent of Cloud Native approaches and employing technologies such as Azure and Kubernetes to solve modern development problems.
Shahid is also frequent speaker at both international conferences and local meetups and is co-organizer of a .NET meetup in the UK.

Shawn Wildermuth has been tinkering with computers and software since he got a Vic-20 back in the early ‘80s. As a Microsoft MVP since 2003, he’s also involved with Microsoft as an ASP.NET Insider and ClientDev Insider. You may have taken one of his more than twenty courses on Pluralsight (http://shawnw.me/psauthor). He’s authored eight books and innumerable articles on software development. You can also see him at one of the local and international conferences he’s spoken at including TechEd, Oredev, SDC, NDC, VSLive, DevIntersection, MIX, Devteach, DevConnections and Dev Reach. He is one of the Wilder Minds. You can reach him at his blog at http://wildermuth.com. He’s also making his first, feature-length, documentary about software developers today called “Hello World: The Film”. You can see more about it at http://helloworldfilm.com.

Sven is Head of Cloud Platform at Vipps. His job is to ensure that Vipps builds a solid, secure, and flexible foundation in Azure that the developers want to use. He has spoken at conferences like Microsoft Build, Javazone Oslo, Tech X Oslo as part of the keynote, and various Meetup groups. He is also awarded with the Microsoft Azure Community Hero Badger.

William Mendes works as a Performance Engineer at Farfetch after having worked as a developer and experienced all the throwbacks that a slow performance application could cause to engineers, leaders, and businesses. Evolving in a culture mindset, he helped companies to implement, train, and achieve the best performance available for them and their customers.

Although it doesn’t look like it, Yaser is an almond croissant addict cleverly disguised as a successful web developer. Since it was relatively clear early on that it would be slightly more than difficult to make a living out of thin air and sitting in a café eating a croissant and drinking a cappuccino, he’s focused his energy on the web, which happily has proven itself to be a wonderful decision.

Apart from that, he has a hunger for public speaking, hence a number of talks in big conferences like NDC and Voxxed Days around the world under his belt.

NDC { Minnesota }

Speakers 2020

Adam Furmanek

Alain Chautard

Andreas Erben

Anuradha Kumari

Aras Bilgen

Bill Wagner

Brady Gaster

Brock Allen

Cory House

Doug Bradbury

Dylan Beattie

Emad Alashi

Gary Short

Ian Cooper

Jeff Blankenburg

Jeremy Likness

Jernej Kavka

Lynn Langit

Mark Rendle

Mathias Brandewinder