Abdul Rafay (http://abdulrafaysbiztalk.wordpress.com) has been working on integration with BizTalk and other Microsoft technologies for more than 5 years. He works as an Integrator in a bank in Qatar, where he is involved in architecture, design, development, and testing of integration solutions built on Microsoft platforms, which mainly includes BizTalk, WCF, and Windows Server AppFabric.
He has vast experience with integration projects in the banking domain and has been involved in projects integrating banking applications with core banking systems and B2B partners. He has previously worked with the largest implementations of BizTalk in companies, such as United Bank Ltd. in Pakistan and SADAD in KSA.
He was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in BizTalk, thrice, and likes to share his knowledge and technical expertise on his blog, MSDN, and other forums.
Other than integration projects and BizTalk, Abdul has previously worked as a web developer with technologies such as ASP, ASP.NET, Sharepoint, and open source web applications.
Randal van Splunteren lives with his wife, daughter, and son in the Netherlands. He works as a consultant for a Dutch consulting company. His focus is on implementing integration scenarios, using Microsoft products and technologies. He has real-world experience with all versions of BizTalk Server and was awarded the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for BizTalk Server by Microsoft, in 2010 and 2011. Randal is an active BizTalk community member and maintains a blog on BizTalk (http://biztalkmessages.vansplunteren.net). You can contact Randal at <[email protected]>.
René Brauwers started his IT career at the end of the last century as a Web Developer/Designer and was primarily engaged with building websites using classic ASP. Soon, his focus got drawn more towards developing client/server applications, using the 3GL language, Centura/Gupta Team Developer. Around the end of 2002, he got involved with the EAI/B2B/B2C/BPM world, starting off with WebMethods and did this for the next three years with an occasional side step to .NET development. This occasional side step got him in touch with BizTalk Server in 2005, and since then, he has been involved with BizTalk Server and general .NET programming. Currently, he is employed as a senior BizTalk consultant for Motion10 (http://www.motion10.com) in the Netherlands and can be contacted via e-mail (<[email protected]>), Twitter (@ReneBrauwers), LinkedIn (http://nl.linkedin.com/in/brauwers), or through his blog, “Me, .NET and BizTalk” (http://blog.brauwers.nl).
Sandro Pereira lives in Portugal and works as a BizTalk consultant at DevScope (www.devscope.net). In the last few years, he has been implementing integration scenarios and Cloud Provisioning at a major telecommunications service provider in Portugal. His main focus is on Integration Technologies, for which he has been using .NET, BizTalk, and SOAP/XML/XSLT, since 2002.
He is an active blogger (http://sandroaspbiztalkblog.wordpress.com/), member and moderator on the MSDN BizTalk Server Forums, Code Gallery contributor, and was awarded the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for BizTalk Server by Microsoft in 2011 (https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Sandro.Pereira). You can contact Sandro at <[email protected]>.