Joe Enos works as a software engineer and architect, designing and building enterprise-level applications, mostly with .NET and SQL Server. He is the owner of No Edge Software and a co-owner of Blosme Software. He is passionate about providing organizations with the tools to improve their business and technical practices. He has spoken at developer events across the United States about build and deployment automation and is a strong advocate for building simple and reliable development and deployment strategies.

Joydip Kanjilal is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in ASP.NET, speaker, and author of several books and articles. Joydip has over 16 years of industry experience in IT with more than 10 years in Microsoft .NET and its related technologies. He was selected as MSDN Featured Developer of the Fortnight (MSDN) a number of times and also as Community Credit Winner at www.community-credit.com several times.

Joydip has authored/co-authored the following books:

Joydip has reviewed the following books:

He has authored more than 250 articles for some of the most reputable sites such as www.msdn.microsoft.com, www.code-magazine.com, www.devx.com, www.ddj.com, www.aspalliance.com, www.aspnetpro.com, www.sql-server-performance.com, and www.sswug.org. A lot of these articles have been selected by www.asp.net (Microsoft's official site on ASP.NET).

Joydip also has years of experience in designing and architecting solutions for various domains. His technical strengths include, C, C++, VC++, Java, C# 5.0, Microsoft .NET, Ajax, WCF 4, ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web API, REST, SOA, Design Patterns, SQL Server 2012, Google's Protocol Buffers, WPF, Microsoft Silverlight 5, Operating Systems, and Computer Architecture.

Joydip can be reached at the following links:

Tarkan Karadayi has been a professional software developer for over 15 years. He has a Master's degree in Computer Science and currently works as a principal software engineer.

Jason De Oliveira works as the CTO for Cellenza (http://www.cellenza.com), an IT Consulting company specialized in Microsoft technologies and Agile methodology based in Paris, France. He is an experienced manager and senior solutions architect, with high skills in Software Architecture and Enterprise Architecture.

Jason works for big companies and helps them realize complex and challenging software projects. He frequently collaborates with Microsoft, and you can find him quite often at Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) in Paris.

He loves sharing his knowledge and experience via his blog, by speaking at conferences, writing technical books and articles in the technical press, giving software courses as Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), and coaching coworkers in his company.

Since 2011, Microsoft has awarded him with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP C#) award for his numerous contributions to the Microsoft community. Microsoft seeks to recognize the best and brightest from technology communities around the world with the MVP Award. These exceptional and highly respected individuals come from more than 90 countries, serving their local online and offline communities and having an impact worldwide. Jason is very proud to be one of them.

Feel free to contact him via his blog if you need any technical assistance or want to exchange information or advice on technical subjects (http://www.jasondeoliveira.com).

Jason has worked on the following books:

Jiri Pik is a finance and business intelligence consultant, working with major investment banks, hedge funds, and other financial players. He has architected and delivered breakthrough trading, portfolio and risk management systems, and decision support systems across industries.

Jiri's consulting firm, WIXESYS, provides their clients with certified expertise, judgment, and execution at the speed of light. WIXESYS' power tools include revolutionary Excel and Outlook add-ons, available at http://spearian.com.