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Demetris Cheatham is the Senior Director of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at GitHub. She is responsible for leading the company’s long-term strategy across four pillars: People, Platform, Policy, and Philanthropy. Her work includes aligning diversity, inclusion and belonging to the company’s global expansion, growth and business strategy, and plan for the future footprint of its workforce.&nb...

Cecil Phillip is a father, swimmer, podcaster, music lover, and a recently certified scuba diver. He also has over a decade of experience in the software development where he’s worked in various industries such as finance, education, HR, and healthcare. Today he's a Developer Advocate at Stripe focusing on guiding .NET developers on how to securely add payment processing to their applications. &nb...

James is a JavaScript Developer, Speaker, and Teacher with a passion for teaching developers through content. He is a Staff Developer Advocate at PlanetScale with years of experience in Content Creation, Advocacy, and Software Development. In his spare time, he runs a YouTube channel, plays co-ed soccer with his wife, spends time with his dogs, and can solve a Rubik's cube in under a minute. You c...

Clark is a community builder, living somewhere along the IL/WI border. He is married to his best friend, amazing wife, business partner, and they share the joys of raising two kids.   He is a historically trained software developer, architect, product manager, and has managed to fool companies such as Allstate, Microsoft, Telerik to let this crazy passionate, entrepreneurial, see no boundarie...

Morgan is a Developer Relations Program Manager at Microsoft focusing on Student Advocacy.    Here is more about Morgan in her own words   I feel in love with STEM in 5th grade during my 3 hour tenure commanding the starship Voyager. From there my passion for science, exploration, experimentation, gamification, STEM education, space, and computers grew and grew. It started with me s...

Kelsey Hightower is a Principal Engineer at Google working on Google’s Cloud Platform. He has helped develop and refine many Google Cloud Products including Google’s Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Functions, and Apigees’s API Gateway. Kelsey spends most of his time with executives and developers spanning the global fortune 1000 helping them understand and leverage Google technologies and platforms to gr...

Brian is a developer who has been building and architecting software for all different types of purposes and applications. His initial focus was on ASP.NET, C#/.NET, SQL and WPF, but he has since shifted to technologies such as Swift, Ionic, Angular and Node.js (basically JavaScript). Brian is an author of several courses on Pluralsight and co-authored the Angular Security Guide documentation. He...

Elahn's bio in her words   My journey as a self-taught developer started August 9, 2020. Since then, I am grateful to say that I've gained an awesome community of developer friends around the globe! I have also started my own book club called .NET Book Study, as well as my own YouTube channel 'Elahn Danee Codes'.   My mission is to 1. Continue learning how to code as a self self-taught C...

Christos Matskas is a Program Manager at Microsoft focusing on Security and Identity, focusing specifically on the developer experience for Azure Active Directory. He has been a developer for over 15 years focusing on Microsoft technology. He is passionate about engaging with development communities and can be found on Twitter, GitHub, and Twitch talking about all sorts of tech topics.  &nbsp...

Mattias occasionally speaks and blogs about open-source, DevOps, .NET and Azure. He is a .NET and DevOps user group and conference organizer and maintains thirty or so OSS projects, contributes to a few more, consumes and benefits from many more. He is a .NET Foundation individual, project and board member, a business owner & employer and foremost father of two & husband of one.   You...

Philip Laureano has been a frequent conference speaker, living in Australia and grew up in California. His love of OSS took him halfway around the world, back in the early days of .NET You can follow Philip on Social Media https://twitter.com/philiplaureano https://github.com/philiplaureano PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ddVKXb... - Apple Podcasts: https:...

Marie Antons is a Community Engineer and mentor. She transitioned from the culinary industry to software in 2020 and has never looked back.   You can follow Marie on Social Media  https://twitter.com/MarieAntons  https://github.com/mrsantons   PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST   - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ddVKXbZGtMz3y66D9QD0e - Apple Podcasts: https://podcast...

Gary Ewan Park has over 10 years experience working as a developer on technologies such as ASP.NET, Windows Forms, WPF, SharePoint, Silverlight, and many others. Throughout his career, Gary has always looked to see how things can be automated, using the mantra that if you do the same thing more than twice, it is time for automation. In 2017 he was awarded a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies....

Suz Hinton is a senior software developer and open source maintainer who has been working in software for over 15 years. She currently works on developer tools and API experience at Stripe. Suz is a strong advocate for privacy, security, accessibility, and prioritizing the user experience in everything she does.  In her spare time, she enjoys maintaining OSS, creating 3D artworks, messing wit...

Nitya has spent over two decades in tech spanning research, academic, startups, communities, and now advocacy. She is the creator of SketchTheDocs, a visualization guide for technology concepts Be sure to follow Nitya on Social Media  https://twitter.com/nitya

Kat Cosgrove is a Developer Advocate, a CNCF Ambassador, and an actual cyborg. Her professional background has run the gamut from bartender, to video store clerk, to teacher, to software developer. She credits this wide-ranging experience for her success as a speaker, developer, and advocate. Her specialty is approachable 101-level content for junior developers or anyone else who considers themsel...

Den is an engineer who is currently working on helping scale the developer relations organization as a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft. He previously helped build the cloud at AWS, was the first product manager on docs.microsoft.com, and helped deliver the groups feature in Microsoft Outlook. Be sure to follow Den on Social Media  https://twitter.com/DennisCode

Sam Smith is a Customer Success Architect at GitHub, where he helps customers accelerate their DevOps journeys. He is primarily interested in developer productivity with DevOps and GitHub. He is also interested in .NET, Azure PaaS, and game development with Unity3d. Be sure to follow Sam on Social Media https://twitter.com/samsmithnz

Brian Douglas is a Developer Advocate at GitHub where he works on increasing use of the GitHub’s platform specific features (Ask him about GitHub Actions!) through technical content distributed on the internet. In addition to that, Brian has a passion open source and loves mentoring new contributors. Be sure to follow Brian on Social Media  https://twitter.com/bdougieYO

Jeff Wilcox is a software engineer at Microsoft, currently working in the Open Source Programs Office. Jeff specializes in cross-platform software development and helping Microsoft better embrace open source technologies at scale. Previously, Jeff worked as an architect and development manager on the Azure team, as well as all the core Microsoft developer platforms spanning desktop and browser cli...

Matthias is a passionate C# developer and likes to talk about build automation, productivity, testing, and tooling in general. Much of his spare time he devotes to his very own open source projects, including NUKE . He is working at JetBrains as developer advocate in the .NET department. That includes showing how awesome Rider and ReSharper are to work with. However, he is also very interested in...

Jen is a Google Developer Expert and a Principal Cloud Developer Advocate Lead at Microsoft with over 20 years' experience as a web and mobile developer, specializing in creating cross-platform mobile apps. She is a multilingual multiculturalist with a passion for hardware hacking, mobile apps, Vue.js, machine learning and discovering new things every day. She is also the founder of Front-End Foxe...

Jeff is currently an Alexa Evangelist role for Amazon, and is the author of Migrating to Windows Phone, and several "31 Days..." series on his website covering Windows Phone and Windows 8 development. He also serves as an organizer for the Stir Trek conference.  Be sure to follow Jeff on Social Media  https://twitter.com/jeffblankenburg​  http://twitch.tv/jeffblankenburg  http:...

Tracy Lee is a serial entrepreneur and Google Developer Expert who loves to build companies and communities. She is the co-founder of This Dot Media and This Dot Labs. Her most recent love is coding in Angular, React, and Ember. In her free time, she runs Venture Hacked with the mission to help create relationships between startups and investors. Be sure to follow Tracy on Social Media  https...

Richard is a public speaker, father, and consultant currently living in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. His interests range from technology to entrepreneurship. He is also interested in programming, volunteering, and web development. Be sure to follow Richard on Social Media  https://twitter.com/richcampbell  Subscribe to Richard's Podcasts Here  https://www.dotnetrocks.com/&nb...