Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD), Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C#, and Episerver Certified Developer, with more than 20 years of educational and programming experience. Since 1993, Mark has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams, and he specializes in preparing others to pass them too. His students range from professionals with decades of experience to 16-year-old apprentices with none. He successfully guides all of them by combining educational skills with real-world experience in consulting and developing systems for enterprises worldwide. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed full-time to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught "train-the-trainer" classes to get Microsoft Certified Trainers up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Currently, Mark creates and delivers classroom and e-learning training courses for Episerver's Digital Experience Cloud, the best .NET CMS for Digital Marketing and E-commerce. He is an Episerver Certified Developer (ECD) on Episerver CMS. In 2010, Mark studied for a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). He taught GCSE and A-Level mathematics in two London secondary schools. He holds a Computer Science BSc Hons. degree from the University of Bristol, UK.Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan is a seasoned programmer and solution architect with over 14 years of software development experience. He has worked in organizations across Pakistan, the USA, and the Middle East. Currently, he is working for a government entity based in Dubai. A Microsoft MVP, he specializes mainly in Microsoft .NET, the cloud and web development. He has published technical articles on MSDN, TechNet, personal blog, and has authored two other books published by Packt: JavaScript for .NET Developers and Enterprise Application Architecture with .NET Core.
Dustin Heffron is a software engineer by day and an independent game developer by night. He has over 10 years of experience programming in various languages, eight of which have been in working with C# and .NET. Currently, Dustin develops tools to automate and test medical instruments at Becton Dickinson. He is also the cofounder and CEO for SunFlake Studios. Dustin has a long history of reviewing for Packt, including XNA 4.0 Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide, C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0: Modern Cross-Platform Development, and the video tutorial series XNA 3D Programming by Example. He also coauthored the video tutorial series XNA 3D Toolkit with Larry Louisiana.
Efraim Kyriakidis is a skilled software engineer with over 10 years of experience on developing and delivering software solutions for diverse customers and projects. He's well-versed in all stages of the software development lifecycle. His first acquaintance with computers and programming was a state of the art Commodore 64, back in the '80s as a kid. Since then he has grown and received his Diploma from Aristotle University Thessaloniki in Greece. Throughout his career, he mainly worked with Microsoft technologies, using C# and .NET since .NET 1.0. He currently works for Siemens AG in Germany as a software developer.
Jalpesh Vadgama has been working on technologies like .NET such as MVC, ASP.NET Core, Web Forms, and REST APIs for over 14 years now. Experienced in open source server-side technologies such as Node.js, he has worked with frameworks such as jQuery, Knockout.js, Angular, React.js and Vue. He has been awarded the Microsoft MVP award six times for his technical contribution to .NET and has delivered over 50 Enterprise-level applications using .NET technologies. He has also been using software development methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall for quite a while.
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