Kevin DeRudder is a Web Developer working for several big companies. He is also a Lecturer in the Technical University of West Flanders, where he teaches frontend web development techniques such as Silverlight, Mobile development, HTML 5, and so on, to future web developers.
Kevin is also heavily involved in several communities such as the Belgian Silverlight User Group and some web communities.
Alex Golesh, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) , is a Senior Architect and a Silverlight Leader at Sela Group. He is an international expert in Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone 7, and XNA. Alex is currently consulting for various enterprises in Israel and worldwide, architecting and developing RIA and mobile solutions. He has been developing training samples and courses for various product groups in Microsoft (Redmond). He conducts lectures and workshops and leads projects all around the world in the fields of RIA, Smart Client, and Windows Phone 7.
Interesting facts:
MVP in Silverlight
One of the top Silverlight experts
Conducted WPF and Silverlight training in India, Sweden, and Poland as a part of the Metro Program (Microsoft Early Adopter program)
"Top Trainer" of Silverlight in Metro program, FY09
Author of Sela courses that are available on the MS Learning Courseware Library such as Silverlight 2.0 for Developers (50145), Upgrade to Silverlight 3, Silverlight 3 Introduction, and Silverlight 3 Advanced
Speaker at Tech-Ed Israel 2008, 2010, Tech-Ed South Africa 2008, Microsoft Dev Academy III, IV, PDC 2010 workshop and numerous Microsoft Developer Days/Open Houses
Participated in a Microsoft/SAP joint project as a Senior Software Developer from Microsoft Consulting Services
Presented a session at PDC 2010 Workshop about XNA Game development for Windows Phone 7
Examples of projects that he developed/was a part of the development team:
Silverlight TreeView (http://silverlighttreeview.codeplex.com/)
Silverlight String-To-PathGeometry Converter (http://stringtopathgeometry.codeplex.com/)
Silverlight Hebrew & Arabic Language Support (http://silverlightrtl.codeplex.com/)
Silverlight and WPF game development for Microsoft DPE—a game that demonstrates the concepts and best practices in Silverlight and WPF game development
Windows Phone 7 Training kit labs (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/wp7trainingcourse.aspx)
APP HUB (http://create.msdn.com/en-US/education/)
Mr. Golesh has his own blog (http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/alex_golesh/), where he constantly writes about interesting topics in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 development.
Carlos Hernández is an experienced Silverlight developer, a technology that fascinates him and which he has followed since Silverlight 3. Carlos is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in Silverlight 4 and has four years of experience in .NET development.
Currently he works at SolidQ in several projects related to Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone 7, and Windows Azure platform.
Tarkan Karadayi has been a professional Software Developer for over 12 years. He has a Masters in Computer Science and is currently working as a Lead Developer.
Jose Luis Latorre is a Microsoft Silverlight MVP (Most Valuable Professional), Toastmasters Competent Communicator, STEP member, Writer, and Trainer, who is deeply involved with technical communities through his collaboration with INETA Europe, Barcelona Developers, and DEVITUG UK user groups.
He is strongly focused on XAML technologies and user interfaces design and development, focused mostly in presentation layer technologies such as Silverlight, WP7, WPF, and Windows 8. He has written several articles on these topics.
He is the founder of Brainsiders, a Microsoft Partner which is dedicated to provide services of consulting, design, and development of user interfaces and RIA solutions for mobile, desktop, and web platforms. It also provides training solutions.
Davide Trotta was born in Turin (Italy) in 1980. Since childhood, he had the opportunity to work closely with computers, as his father worked for a major company that made computers. By the age of 15 years, he entered the programming world. At 19, his first job was a contract for a company in the financial sector, whose job included the development of web pages (ASP 3.0). In .NET Framework, Davide realized its potential and has followed all its changes, working as a freelancer and finding complex projects based on that technology.
In the last two years, he worked in the production of desktop/RIA/mobile, exploiting the world of WPF/Silverlight. He has worked for large local and international systems integrators companies such as Altran, Atos Origin, and Delta3.