Einar Ingebrigtsen has been working professionally with software since 1994, ranging from games development on platforms such as the PlayStation, Xbox, and PC to the enterprise line of business application development since 2002. He has always kept his focus on creating great products with great user experiences, putting the user first. Einar received the Microsoft MVP award in October 2008, awarded for his work in the community and in Silverlight space with open source projects such as Balder—a 3D engine for Silverlight. Today, Einar runs a company called Dolittle together with his partners, doing consultancy and building his own products with their own open source projects at the heart of what they do. The clients that Dolittle has had in the last couple of years include NRK (the largest TV broadcaster in Norway), Statoil (a Norwegian oil company), Komplett (the largest e-commerce company in Norway), and Holte (a leading Norwegian developer for construction software).

A strong believer in open source, Einar runs a few projects in addition to Balder, the largest being Bifrost (http://bifrost.dolittle.com/), a line of business platform for .NET developers, and Forseti (https://github.com/dolittle/forseti), a headless auto-running JavaScript test runner.

Additionally, Einar loves talking at user groups and conferences and has been a frequent speaker at Microsoft venues, talking about different topics—the last couple of years mostly about architecture, code quality, and cloud computing. His personal blog is at http://www.ingebrigtsen.info/ and the company blog is at http://blog.dolittle.com/.

Einar is also the author of the book SignalR: Real-time Application Development, Packt Publishing.