Gastón C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. He is an independent consultant, a freelance author, and a speaker.
He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's Journal and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times.
He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
Daron Yöndem has been a Microsoft Regional Director and a Microsoft MVP for 11 years. He is a regular speaker at international conferences, recently focusing on microservices, serverless, DevOps, and IoT. Daron currently works as a CTO at XOMNI Inc, a cloud company that builds PaaS offerings for retailers, such as XOGO, who are building decision signage platform. Feel free to reach out to him on Twitter @daronyondem.
Jim O'Neil is a senior architect at BlueMetal, a division of Insight, where he focuses on cloud architectures and IoT solutions for a wide array of industries. A former Microsoft Developer Evangelist and a Microsoft Azure MVP since 2017, he is a frequent speaker at software events in the greater New England area and has perennially organized and assisted at local conferences, such as Global Azure Bootcamp, Boston Code Camp, and New England GiveCamp. In his spare time, he has developed a penchant for genetic genealogy and has helped a number of adoptees (including himself!) find their birth families.
Roberto Freato has been an independent IT consultant since he started his professional career. While working for small software factories while he was studying for an MSc in computer science engineering, for which he produced a thesis about consumer cloud computing, he began to specialize in cloud computing and Azure. Today, he works as a freelance consultant for important companies in Italy, helping clients to design and launch their distributed software solutions. He trains for the developer community in his free time, speaking in many conferences. He has been a Microsoft MVP since 2010.
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