Stephen is a Partner Software Engineer at Microsoft. He’s primarily focused on the libraries that comprise .NET and on improving performance of the entire .NET stack.

Federico is the former cofounder of Corvalius, a R&D company and currently at Hibernating Rhinos engineering the next-gen RavenDB indexing technology. He has been working on algorithmic performance for the last 15 years, both with CPU and specialized hardware like GPUs. His experience ranges from banking software performance tuning to database engine optimization. He enjoys reading in binary and tinkering with registers and caches. Among his technology interests are highly distributed systems, massively parallel technology, low-level optimization and high-performance computer graphics.

Scott Wlaschin is a developer, architect and author. He is the author of the popular F# site fsharpforfunandprofit.com and the book "Domain Modeling Made Functional".

Known for his non-academic approach to functional programming, Scott is a popular speaker and has given talks at NDC, F# Exchange, DDD Europe, and other conferences around the world.

Johnny Hooyberghs is a consultant for Involved since 2014 focusing on .NET architecture and backend development. Prior to joining Involved, he has had experience developing software for Corilus since 2008. He has been passionate about .NET ever since it was released and his areas of expertise are C#, .NET (Core), WCF, WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET (Core), Entity Framework (Core), Azure and ALM using the Microsoft Stack. Every now and then he enjoys doing some web development using JavaScript. Since 2010, Johnny spends some of his free time teaching .NET and C# for the adult education institute CVO Antwerpen. When he's not working or teaching, he likes some casual gaming, scuba diving, learning to play the piano, traveling the world and visiting as many theme parks as possible.

A developer with experience in refactoring an ancient legacy, introducing useful templates, technologies, and practices in a bloody enterprise. Now he works for a small but ambitious company Intelcon. Kirill considers the savings on the quality of execution unprofitable. Believes that optimizing the correct code is easier than correcting the optimized one.

Karlen is a lead software engineer at IAM engineering in UBS, where he is building internal toolkits, APIs and frameworks around IAM tools. Author of atomics.net.

Vagif is a Russian/Norwegian developer working for a Norwegian company Miles. He has about three decades of programming experience, currently focusing on building systems in F# and C#. Vagif is a frequent speaker on software conferences, a contributor to some open source projects, and maintainer of Simple.OData.Client.

Andrey is the performance lead at JetBrains Rider, Ph.D., the project lead of BenchmarkDotNet and perfolizer, the author of Pro .NET Benchmarking, an ex Microsoft .NET MVP, a silver medalist of ACM ICPC.

Andrey is the performance lead at JetBrains Rider, Ph.D., the project lead of BenchmarkDotNet and perfolizer, the author of Pro .NET Benchmarking, an ex Microsoft .NET MVP, a silver medalist of ACM ICPC.

An architect. 16 years ago Igor started as a C++ developer, worked with Win, Linux, QNX in areas ranging from video processing to network card drivers with a full implementation of the TCP/IP stack. He switched to C# since 2009 and started dealing with architecture as well. His special focus is on the challenges of apps interaction, performance problems, as well as the convenience of developers working on complex projects.

The developer of the bioinformatics software with .NET, a chemical with Java, financial with Haskell, and some other interesting stuff. Roman likes to dive into new areas and languages and then talk about them at conferences and use them in production, if necessary.

Anatoly was studying to become an information security specialist. He was earning money like a tough C++ developer on Linux. After getting bored of coding, he felt the urge to create and switched to C#. He has been writing in .NET since its first versions. Currently Anatoly is designing and developing business applications, distributed and fault-tolerant systems. He spends his spare time with ES, CQRS and DDD.