Alena Hall is an experienced Solution Architect proficient in distributed cloud programming, real-time system modeling, higher load and performance, big data analysis, data science, functional programming, and machine learning. She is a speaker at international conferences and a member of the F# Board of Trustees.
David Stephens is the program manager for Visual F# at Microsoft. He's responsible for representing the needs of F# developers within Microsoft, managing the development of new features, and evangelizing F#. Prior to joining the .NET team, David worked on tools for Apache Cordova, the F12 developer tools in Microsoft Edge, TypeScript, and .NET Native. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics from the Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.