Andrey's favorite topics are performance and micro-optimizations, and he is the maintainer of BenchmarkDotNet (a powerful .NET library for benchmarking supported by the .NET Foundation). Andrey is a frequent speaker at various events for developers, and he is the program director of the DotNext conference. Andrey is also a PhD in computer science, a Microsoft .NET MVP, a silver medalist of ACM ICPC. In his free time, he likes to study science (his primary research interests are mathematical biology and bifurcation theory). Previously, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Weizmann Institute of Science and as a research scientist in the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics SB RAS.

Jon has been a Microsoft MVP for more than 13 years, and is currently a software engineer at Google, London. He's the top contributor on Stack Overflow, the main contributor on the Noda Time library, and the author of C# in Depth.

A software developer at SourceGear. Eric has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also founded the AbiWord project and was responsible for much of the original design and implementation. Prior to founding SourceGear, he was at Spyglass for around five years. Eric served there as Project Lead for the browser team. They built the original versions of the browser you now know as "Internet Explorer".

Dylan Beattie is a consultant, software developer and international keynote speaker. He’s the director of Ursatile, an independent consultancy based in London that specialises in helping organisations bridge the knowledge gap between software development and business strategy. Dylan has 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.

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.

Stephen Cleary is a Christian, husband, and father who programs software in his spare time. :)

He is a Microsoft MVP and the author of "Concurrency in C# Cookbook" (O'Reilly) as well as several MSDN articles. He's also the top answerer for async/await questions on Stack Overflow.

His work usually deals with asynchronous and multithreaded programming, but he finds any challenging subject interesting. These days he uses C#/TypeScript, but remains interested in many different languages.

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.

Jeff is co-founder and CTO of Wintellect, a developer consulting and education firm that serves companies all over the world. He has written nine books and hundreds of articles on software development, and today spends most of his time working with Azure and AI. In his spare time, Jeff builds and flies large radio-control jets. He loves the smell of jet fuel in the morning.