I am Adam Furmanek and I have been working as a .NET developer for 5 years. Right now I am at Amazon working with Scala, 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.

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.

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 

, and he regularly speaks at conferences and user groups all over the world.

 programming language, and he’s performed his software-themed parodies of classic rock songs all over the world as 

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.

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.

Jernej Kavka (JK) is an SSW Senior Software Architect, Microsoft AI MVP and organizer of the Brisbane AI user group. JK is a full-stack .NET developer, but his passion lies in cogitative services, AI and machine learning. He is the main architect behind SSW's virtual receptionist - SophieAI: 

He is also very active in the developer community and enjoys speaking at conferences like NDC, DDD, as well as User Groups and Hack Days.

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.

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

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.

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 stepbacks that a slow performance application could cause to engineers, leaders, and businesses. Evolving in a cultural mindset, he has been helping 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, he’s focused his energy on the web, which happily has proven itself to be a wonderful decision.

NDC { Minnesota }

Speakers

Adam Furmanek

Alain Chautard

Bill Wagner

Brady Gaster

Brock Allen

Doug Bradbury

Dylan Beattie

Dylan Beattie

Emad Alashi

Jeff Blankenburg

Jernej Kavka

Mark Rendle

Michael Staib

Rochelle Howard

Roy Osherove

Scott Hunter

Shahid Iqbal

Sven Malvik

William Mendes

Yaser Adel Mehraban