Dr. Gabriel Nicolas Schenker started his career as a physicist. Following his passion and interest in stars and the universe, he chose to write his PhD thesis in astrophysics. Soon after this, he dedicated all his time to his second passion, writing and architecting software. Gabriel has since been working for over 12 years as an independent consultant, trainer, and mentor, mainly on the .NET platform. He is currently working as a chief software architect in a mid-size US company based in Austin TX, providing software and services to the pharmaceutical industry, as well as to many well-known hospitals and universities throughout the US and in many other countries around the world. Gabriel is passionate about software development and tries to make life for developers easier by providing guidelines and frameworks to reduce friction in the software development process.
He has used NHibernate in many different commercial projects, web-based, as well as Windows-based solutions. Gabriel has written many articles and blog posts about different aspects of NHibernate. He is the author behind the well-known NHibernate FAQ blog. Gabriel has also been a reviewer for the bestselling book NHibernate 3 Cookbook.
Gabriel is married and a father of four children and during his spare time likes hiking in the mountains, cooking, and reading.
Aaron Cure is an avid developer, instructor, and innovator. During his 10 years in the military as a linguist and a satellite communications repair technician, he learned that his real love was computer programming.
After various throes with PHP, Classic ASP, VB, and a brief encounter with Java/JSP, he found a real passion for the .NET framework. After searching for a "better way" to carry out database storage and retrieval, Aaron stumbled across the NHibernate framework.
Unsatisfied with the options for interacting with this great framework, he founded the NHibernate Generation project (nhib-gen) on SourceForge to reduce the "barrier to entry" for most developers.
Aaron and his family run a small consulting and web hosting company doing web design and custom software development for various organizations across the country. One of their more interesting projects has been software to control laser cutting machines.
In his spare time, he also enjoys developing projects with his daughters, using everything from Lego NXT (using C# and Bluetooth communications) to the Microchip PIC platform (using JAL and USB). He also collects and restores classic farm tractors, engines, and farm equipment, as well as semi trucks and trailers. He and his family display them at tractor shows, parades, schools, and various other community events.