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Chris Alcock

Chris is a software developer and architect working on the Microsoft .NET stack, plying his trade in the tourism sector. Chris also maintains the daily .NET news link blog 'The Morning Brew' (http://themorningbrew.net/) which aims to be a reputable source for .NET news across the Microsoft and Alt.NET worlds.

Rob Ashton

Hi,

I'm Rob Ashton and I like building things in whatever language I like at the moment.

This year I have been largely building full-stack applications in JS, using NodeJS, WebGL, HTML5 Canvas, etc.

They're pretty cool.

Gemma Cameron

I'm a senior .NET developer at LateRooms with an emphasis on testing.

After graduating in 2005 I did a short stint as a tester and since then I've been a developer. I've been attending and organising tech events for about 5 years.

I like to use analogies to explain myself from my interests outside of work; food, roller skating and ferrets.

You can follow me on the twitters, but be warned, it's quantity over quality and there'll be lot of photos of ferrets:
http://twitter.com/ruby_gem

Will Charles

I am a .NET developer with one of the UK's fastest growing software companies. Day to day I work with C#, .NET and SQL, but of an evening I'm curious mind that hacks away in Java/Android, Python, Scala and whatever else takes my interest that week.

I am, also, joint co-ordinator of NxtGen Manchester and an infrequent blogger.

Phil Collins

Phil is a Development Director for a software development company. He has programmed and developed code since the days of the Sinclair ZX81.

Before joining his current role Phil had previously worked as a web developer and an Omnimark programmer. Currrently he leads a team of developers in a massive rewrite project as the flagship company product moves away from its legacy platform.

Ian Cooper

Ian Cooper has over 15 years of experience delivering Microsoft platform solutions in government, healthcare, and finance. During that time he has worked for the DTi, Reuters, Sungard, Misys and Beazley delivering everything from bespoke enterpise solutions to 'shrink-wrapped' products to thousands of customers. Ian is a passionate exponent of the benefits of OO and Agile. He is test-infected and contagious. When he is not writing C# code he is also the and founder of the London .NET user group. http://www.dnug.org.uk

Richard Fennell

I am the Engineering Director of the Black Marble Ltd a Microsoft Gold Partner based in the North of England. Black Marble specialises in BizTalk & SharePoint based business automation.

As Engineering Director I am responsible for the delivery of systems and tools to allow my company, and our clients, to deliver solutions efficiently. All Black Mable's development activity is underpinned by Visual Studio Team System an agile process model. I am an MVP for Team System and a Certified Scrum Master

I am a regular presenter at community events in the UK and Ireland (and the rest of the world given a chance) where my most common subject is software testing and the development process.

If you want to get in touch please use the contact form via my blog

Richard Garside

I'm a freelance web and software developer who creates websites with ASP.NET MVC and Windows 8 apps using C# and XAML. I also occasionally make apps for Mac and games for the web using Flash and ActionScript.

I run a micro independent software vendor that currently produces the app Font Picker and plans to produce more apps.

I'm the cofounder of Leeds#, a group for Microsoft developers in Leeds to get together and learn from each other.

Andy Gibson

Andy Gibson is a Web/Support Programmer at Storm ID in Edinburgh with a background in web application development including ASP.NET MVC, Umbraco, PHP and jQuery. He is always on the lookout for new technologies to play with and loves to learn what he can about things especially in the web development arena.

Keen to give back to the community, Andy has spoken at a number of community events including many of the DDD series as well as at local user groups. He is currently the chairman of Scottish Developers, a user group for programmers all across Scotland, for which he organises various talks and events including DDD Scotland and the upcoming DunDDD.

In his spare time (not that he has much), Andy enjoys table-top wargamming, computer games, Formula 1 and writing more code.

Nathan Gloyn

Nathan Gloyn is a passionate developer, designer, agile evangelist, and now sometimes a presenter.

Nathan can be found on his blog Design, Code, Release where he often holds forth with opinions and occasionally write posts that interest people.

Joel Hammond-Turner

Joel works as aTechnical Lead for Landmark, and is currently bringing nearly 20 yearsexperience of software development and a passion for both technology andelegance to designing a world-class applications for the propertyinformation and digital mapping sectors.

Outside of work he referees life with his wife and three youngchildren in a home with more computers than is probably wise, but is really lookingforward to teaching his boys Python on a Raspberry Pi this autumn.

Joel can shoot video too, responsible for the filming and editingof the entirety of the DDD WP7 event in Manchester in 2010 (http://developerdeveloperdeveloper.com/wp71/).

Robert Hogg

Robert is co-founder and Managing Director of Black Marble, a software development company specialising in collaboration, ALM and innovative technology solutions. Robert is a long-time regular on the community circuit, and in his sixth year as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). Currently, he is MVP for Connected Systems, with previous stints for Visual Studio, Architecture and BizTalk.

You can follow Robert on his blog (http://blogs.blackmarble.co.uk/blogs/boss/) and on Twitter (www.twitter.com/roberthogg).

Matt Lacey

Matt Lacey is a software developer who specializes in mobile development.
Since 1999 he's worked at a wide variety of companies, including consultancies, ISV's, start-ups and enterprise IT departments large and small.
He's developed software that runs on desktops, the web and various mobile and embedded devices, using numerous languages, databases and operating systems. He's currently working as a freelance developer building applications for Windows Phone 7.
He's particularly interested in developer productivity, mobile computing and providing excellent user experiences.

He organises two user groups: the Windows Phone User Group (in London); and DevEvening (in Woking).

Niall Merrigan

Niall Merrigan is an IT Architect with Laerdal Medical in Stavanger Norway. Working for over 12 years in development, he specialises in Sharepoint and ASP.NET but has been known to dabble in everything from network infrastructure to database optimisation. He maintains a blog on ASP.NET and Microsoft certifications at http://www.certsandprogs.com/ and can also be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/nmerrigan.

Gary Park

Gary Ewan Park has been developing on the .Net Platform for almost 7 years. Starting out with VB.Net and then settling on C#, his day job sees him developing using SharePoint, Silverlight, WCF and Ontological Databases. In his spare time, Gary is developing on the Windows Phone 7 platform, as well as investigating the Windows Azure offerings, and also moderating the ASP.Net Forums at www.vbforums.com. In addition, Gary is a founding member of the Aberdeen Developers .Net User Group, that holds monthly sessions on any topic related to the Microsoft .Net Technology Stack.

Peter Shaw

As my Twitter Bio Says:

"I'm a tech-head pure and simple, I'm the UK & Europe group manager for Lidnug and I write software for fun and for a living."

On the flip side, Iv'e written software in one form or another since the early 1980's, I remember windows way back when it was 'Windows 286' not only that but Iv'e worked with ms-dos, Unix, Linux, Solaris and plenty of others.

Iv'e seen languages come & go, Iv'e seen database systems and mobile platforms come & go and many more.

These days most of my energy is put into the .NET community at large both with the work I do with Lidnug and the public speaking and mentoring I do to other developers and at various public events.

I run my own small I.T services company called 'Digital Solutions' and cover most aspects in the industry from hardware & I.T pro right through to custom software and website design.

Gary Short

I hang out here

Gary Short [MVP C#] joined the army upon leaving school and was put on stores duty, where he was responsible for handing out the camouflage paint for trucks and tanks. As the distinctive patterned paint only came it two sizes, small for trucks and large for tanks, he soon grew tired of this work and became a hit man for Chipperfield's Circus. His mission was to track down competing circuses around the world and to kill them. This was very dangerous work as it is hard to kill a Circus, the best way being to always go for the juggler. Seeing there was no future in this Gary then drifted into programming where he pretends to know a lot about Patterns & Practices and he intends to stay in this profession until found out.

Psst.. Want to see a Pattern ?

Garry Shutler

Senior developer at Zopa.

Code samurai.

@gshutler
http://www.robustsoftware.co.uk

Jimmy Skowronski

Jimmy started his computing adventure long time ago with Atari, which of course was far better than Commodore, contrary to the popular opinion. Fast forward... When the first .NET version was released he jumped on it as an excuse to stop writing code in classic ASP and Delphi. He is now working as a Principal Software Engineer in Symantec.cloud where he is a technical leader and the .NET evangelist. His day is mainly consumed by mentoring, managing development and from time to time designing and coding a new cool stuff. Currently, his favorite topics are MVC, WIF and identity and Windows Phone. After a hard day in the office he loves to fly a virtual space ship in Eve Online. Jimmy is also the leader of the GL.net, a free .NET user group based in Gloucester and Cheltenham area.

Guy Smith-Ferrier

Guy is an MVP in ASP.NET. He is the author of ".NET Internationalization" published by Addison-Wesley (http://www.dotneti18n.com). He is a Microsoft Certified Professional developer, author, trainer and speaker, has spoken at many European and US conferences and is an INETA Speaker. He runs The .NET Developer Network (http://www.dotnetdevnet.com), a free .NET user group in the South West of England. He has written over 50 articles for numerous magazines, has co-authored an application development book and is the author of the ADO chapter of "Mastering Delphi 6". You can read his blog at http://www.guysmithferrier.com.

Steve Spencer

I am the Development Director of the Black Marble Ltd a Microsoft Gold Partner based in the North of England. Black Marble is a highly skilled software development and IT consultancy house that thrives on solving difficult problems, ensuring our customers benefit from the innovative solutions we deliver.

As Development Director I am responsible for all software development and consultancy at Black Marble.

I am a regular presenter at events in the UK and Ireland where my common subjects are Windows Azure and ALM.

Paul Stack

Developer who enjoys evaluating, and adopting, new technologies and tools. Currently work in London as a developer working on technologies from the .Net technology stack. Unhealthy obsession with clean code and AGILE practices, especially Kanban, and more recently Continuous Integration

Mike Taulty

Mike Taulty works in the Developer and Platform Group at Microsoft in the UK where he has spent the past few years helping developers understand and get the best from the Microsoft platform. Prior to this, Mike spent 3 years with Microsoft Consulting Services as a consultant on developer technologies.

Before joining Microsoft, Mike spent the previous 9 years working as a software developer for a number of enterprises, consultancies and software vendors working with a variety of operating system, client, communication and server technologies.

Mike holds a BSc Hons (1st Class) in Computer Science from the University of Leeds.

Liam Westley

Liam Westley is Head Of Engineering at Criteria Labs Ltd where he leads a team of .Net developers in delivering digital media downloads. He works in an office on the 8th floor in Hammersmith where you can look out over Wembley Stadium, Loftus Road (QPR) and Craven Cottage (Fulham).

Previous to Criteria MX, Liam worked as a consultant and still runs his own company Tiger Computer Services Ltd, specialising in software for Broadcast Television. His Niagara SMS moderation system has been used by QVC UK for the last eight years to display SMS messages from viewers, live, on screen.

Liam is also responsible for the ticketing system for Hat Trick Productions which provides e-tickets to shows such as Have I Got New For You, Room 101 and The Kumars at No 42B.

Liam has worked for chellomedia, GMTV, BSkyB, SmashedAtom and Original Thinking Group. In his time he created the first in house weather system for Sky News using Visual Basic 1.0, acted as architect for two general election systems, project managed the launch of the GMTV web site, was key to delivering the first interactive television chat service in the UK for BSkyB and helped launch the first live shopping channels in the Netherlands.

Liam's blog can be found at http://geekswithblogs.net/twickers, or you can follow Liam on Twitter @westleyl.