Jon is a Microsoft MVP for more than 13 years, currently he is a software engineer at Google, London. Stack Overflow contributor, author of C# in Depth.

Andrey Akinshin is a senior developer at JetBrains, where he works on Rider (a cross-platform .NET IDE based on the IntelliJ platform and ReSharper). His 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 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).

Mei-Chin Tsai is Principal Group Software Engineer Manager at Microsoft. Her team owns C#/VB compilers and .NET runtime (often referred as CLR). Many of .NET innovation has been successful over her watch/supervision such as .NET native (a pure ahead of time compiler) and low allocation APIs (Span and Memory). She is passionate about making developers successful through languages and through a performing runtime. Mei-Chin is skilled in Test Automation, Mobile Applications, .NET, Java, Management, and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Strong engineering professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) focused in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Mr. Martin has been a programmer since 1970.

He is a co-founder of cleancoders.com, offering on-line video training for software developers.

He is the founder of Uncle Bob Consulting LLC, offering software consulting, training, and skill development services to major corporations worldwide. He served as the Master Craftsman at 8th Light inc, a Chicago based Software Consulting firm.

Mr. Martin has published dozens of articles in various trade journals, and is a regular speaker at international conferences and trade shows.

He is also the creator of the acclaimed educational Clean Code video series at cleancoders.com.

Mr. Martin has authored and edited many books.

Richard Lander is a Principal Program Manager on the .NET Core team at Microsoft. He works on making .NET Core work great in memory-limited Docker containers, on ARM hardware like the Raspberry Pi, and enabling GPIO programming and IoT scenarios. He is part of the design team that defines new .NET runtime capabilities and features. Richard helps teams at Microsoft establish successful open source communities on GitHub, adopting the patterns used by the .NET team. He also writes extensively for the .NET blog. Richard reported for work at Microsoft in 2000, having just graduated from the University of Waterloo (Canada) with an Honours English degree, with intensive study areas in Computer Science and SGML/XML Markup Languages. In his spare time, he swims, bikes and runs and participates in a few local races each year. He enjoys British rock and Doctor Who. He grew up in Canada and New Zealand.

Dmitry is a technology evangelist of Microsoft company, promotes modern software development technologies among beginner developers: pupils, students, startups. Specializes in the Internet of things, Windows universal applications development, functional programming, and platform .NET (F#, Roslyn). Has personally done dozens of hackathons all around Russia, helped many students' startups to start their projects in various fields. Associate Professor, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, teaches at MIPT and MAI, member of Russian Association for Artificial Intelligence, during summer time — lead of the department of computer technologies of the children camp JUNIO-R. In his spare time is into technological magic, does Chinese tea ceremony, Gong Fu Cha.

CTO of Eagle Labs.

Long time *nix systems and low-level programmer with a passion for performance and writing fast and efficient code.