Roberto Freato has been an independent IT consultant since he started to work for small software factories while he was studying, after the MSc in computer science. With a thesis about Consumer Cloud Computing, he got specialization on Cloud and Azure. Today, he works as a freelance consultant for major companies in Italy, helping clients to design and kick-off their distributed software solutions. He trains for the developer community in his free time, speaking in many conferences. He is a Microsoft MVP since 2010.
Manish Sharma works with Microsoft as a solution architect as part of Microsoft Services. As a solution architect, he is responsible for leading large enterprise transformational engagements defining technology/solution roadmaps, conducting architecture and technical evaluations of enterprise engagements and architecting mutli-million-dollar solution developments and maintenance outsourcing managements. He is also a technology evangelist and speaker in prestigious events such as Microsoft TechEd, on latest and cutting-edge technologies such as HoloLens, Internet of Things, Connected Car, and Cloud technologies such as Azure.
Paul Glavich was an ASP.NET MVP for 13 years and currently works as a principal consultant for Readify. Previously, he was a chief technology officer (CTO) for Saasu (saasu.com), solution architect at Datacom, then senior consultant for readify, and prior to that a technical architect for EDS, Australia. He has over 20 years of industry experience ranging from PICK, C, C++, Delphi, and Visual Basic 3/4/5/6 to his current specialty in .Net with C#, ASP.NET, Azure, Cloud and DevOps.
Paul has been developing in .Net technologies since .Net was first in Beta and was the technical architect for one of the world’s first Internet banking solutions using .Net technology.
Paul can be seen on various .Net-related newsgroups, has presented at the Sydney .Net user group (www.sdnug.org) and TechEd, and is also a member of ASPInsiders (www.aspinsiders.com). He has also written some technical articles, which can be seen on community sites such as ASPAlliance.com (www.aspalliance.com). Paul has authored a total of three books, Beginning AJAX in ASP.NET, Beginning Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX, and the latest book on .Net Performance Testing and Optimization. He is currently focusing on overall architecture, solution design, and Microsoft Cloud solutions.
On a more personal note, Paul is married with three children, three grandkids, holds a fifth degree black belt in Budo-Jitsu, and also practices Wing Chun Kung fu.
There are so many people who have helped me get to where I am today, but it would take another book. So to keep things short, I would like to thank my three children Kristy, Marc, and Elizabeth for being awesome, my parents for buying me that first computer, my nerd friends for nerding out with me, but mostly I would like to thank my wife, Michele, for supporting me in my life and career, and enduring my never-ending stream of technobabble and Dad jokes.