Elton Stoneman has been a Microsoft MVP for 8 years and a Pluralsight author for 5 years, and now he works for Docker, Inc. Before joining Docker, he spent 15 years as a consultant, architecting and delivering very large and very successful solutions built on .NET and powered by Windows and Azure.
All the years he worked with Windows, Elton had a secret Linux server in his attic or garage, running core services for the home, such as music servers and file servers. When Docker started to take hold in the Linux world, Elton had early experience in a cross-platform project he worked on, got hooked, and started to focus on containers. He was made a Docker Captain, and for a time, was one of only two people in the world who were both a Microsoft MVP and a Docker Captain.
Elton blogs about Docker, tweets about Docker, and speaks about Docker all the time. He is a regular at local events and user groups; you will often see him at Docker London, London DevOps, and WinOps London. He's also had great fun speaking at fantastic conferences around the world, including DockerCon, NDC London, SDD, DevSum, and NDC Oslo.
You can'€™t write a 300-page technical book without a lot of late nights, a lot of support, and a decent bean-to-cup coffee machine. Support is the most important of those, after the coffee machine. There are a lot of people I would like to thank. Everyone I work with at Docker, Inc. is exceptional, but Michael Friis and Brandon Royal are the pioneers of Docker on Windows and their work is driving this important technology forward. The Docker Captains are a fabulous group of people, and I have learned a great deal from Stefan Scherer and all his community contributions. And my friends and family are just all-out awesome, especially Nikki and Jackson.