Steve Bearman is a software developer with his own software and consulting company, Suzy B Studios. He supports all sectors from science and engineering through business and finance and specializes in the thorny, complex problems where architecture, algorithms, performance, and usability are critical. He has been developing with .NET for over a decade. He has long been functionally oriented; one of his first preferred programming languages, years ago, was the early functional, mathematical programming language APL.
Steve has a special fondness for good algorithms and appropriate technology. He has taught university graduate-level computer science and managed marketing and operations as the VP of a manufacturing corporation. Steve has published technical papers dealing with data, its analysis, interpretation, and automated collection. He speaks frequently on technical topics. He has an SB in Mathematics from MIT and an MA in applied mathematics, concentrating on algorithms and mathematical statistics, from the University of California, San Diego.
He enjoys life with his beautiful wife and two dogs, holds black belts in two styles of martial arts, juggles, rides his unicycle, and enjoys the arts and the outdoors.
Taha Hachana is an enthusiast F# hacker. He has been using this language since 2008 (2 years before it became a Microsoft product). As an active community member, he has been maintaining several open source F# projects on GitHub, focusing on web development with the WebSharper framework and data visualization. When he's not coding, Taha enjoys practicing martial arts and yoga. You can follow him on Twitter at @TahaHachana and read his blog at http://fsharp-code.blogspot.com/.
Marcin Juraszek is a software engineer at Microsoft. He is associated with Office Online, a web browser-based version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite.
He holds bachelor's of engineering and master's of science degrees in computer science from the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland. Before moving to the U.S., Marcin worked at Future Processing, one of the fastest growing software companies in central and eastern Europe.
He has been a .NET developer since the last 4 years. His expertise spans across most of .NET stack, including C#, VB.NET, F#, ASP.NET, XAML, WPF, Silverlight, LINQ, and .NET Core. He's also interested in new technologies, such as TypeScript, Azure, Roslyn, and so on.
He runs his own programming-oriented blog at http://marcinjuraszek.com and is an active member of the Stack Overflow community.
Rohit Pathak has a degree in computer science from Rajiv Gandhi Technical University. He picked up his interest in functional programming while working on High Performance Computing (HPC) at AITR (Acropolis Institute of Technology and Research). For years, he worked at Innovation at Incubation Labs and NTI (NEC Technologies India Limited), focusing on machine learning, static model checking, compilers, and HPC. Currently, he is working as a lead software engineer with the system and verification group at Cadence Design Systems.