Azure Developer Community Day 2021

Scott is a web developer who has been blogging at https://hanselman.com for over a decade. He works in Open Source on ASP.NET and the Azure Cloud for Microsoft out of his home office in Portland, Oregon. Scott has three podcasts, http://hanselminutes.com for tech talk, http://thisdeveloperslife.com on developers' lives and loves, and http://ratchetandthegeek.com for pop culture and tech media. He's written a number of books and spoken in person to almost a half million developers worldwide.

Walter Melcher ist Senior Consultant bei doubleSlash und selbstständiger Experte für Kommunikation in der IT-Branche. Walter hat in zahlreichen Projekten in der Automobil-, E-Mobilitäts- und der Fahrradindustrie gearbeitet. Darüber hinaus ist Walter Keynote Speaker bei Greator und Professional Member der German Speakers Association (GSA).

Konrad Krafft, Diplom-Informatiker (FH), ist Gründer und Geschäftsführer der Firma doubleSlash Net-Business GmbH. Er ist verantwortlich für Strategie und die strukturelle Weiterentwicklung von doubleSlash. ​

Als Experte für künstliche Intelligenz hält er Vorträge und berät Firmen unter anderem die BMW AG und die ZF Friedrichshafen AG.​

Als Software Architekt bringt er seine Expertise für die digitale Mobilität vom morgen bei einer Vielzahl von Kunden ein, um effiziente Lösungen mit hoher Qualität und Robustheit zu entwickeln.

Nicole Enders is a Modern Workplace Expert and she works at CONET Solutions GmbH as a Team Lead for Cloud Workplace Solutions. As a MVP for Office Apps & Services she shares her knowledge at many events, on her own blog as well as in her books.

As a consultant and developer, she has been dealing with the requirements for efficient collaboration in companies since more than 13 years. She is convinced of the advantages that Microsoft 365 (especially Microsoft Teams and the Power Platform) offers to improve collaboration.

Together with her customers, she combines proven standard products from this product range and adapts them with the help of various development tools. This creates working environments for social intranet, modern workplace and collaboration that are individually tailored to the customer's needs.

Christian Glessner is founder and CEO of Hololux, a leading innovation agency. In an emerging digital world, Christian helps his clients to become more successful by using latest technologies like Serverless Computing, Mixed Reality and AI.
His parents were entrepreneurs and he grew up between IT technology and economics. As a kid, he was deeply inspired by an amber, sparkling screen and it's blinking and promising cursor of an AS/400 in his parent’s office. "Ready" - The “Tabula Rasa” or in other words the chance of creating something entirely new from scratch is still driving his passion for information technologies. This year he was honored for the 9th time in a row for receiving the 'Microsoft MVP Award', an Oscar-like accolade conferred by Microsoft.

Vincenzo Crimi (Diplom-Informatiker, FH) arbeitet seit 2012 als zertifizierter Software Architect u.a. in den Bereichen Technologieberatung und Entwicklung, Softwaretests sowie Lösungsdesign für doubleSlash. Er hat mehrjährige Erfahrung in IT-Projekten und ist u.a. für unsere Kunden Carl Zeiss AG, BMW AG, Bundesdruckerei GmbH und der Deutschen Telekom AG tätig. Vincenzo Crimi hat umfangreiche technologische Expertise im Front- und Backendbereich. Des Weiteren leistet er Integrationsarbeit um Maschinen an die Welt der IoT-Plattformen anzubinden.

Rainer Stropek is co-founder and CEO of the company software architects and has been serving this role since 2008. At software architects Rainer and his team are developing the award-winning SaaS time tracking solution “time cockpit”. Previously, Rainer founded and led two IT consulting firms that worked in the area of developing software solution based on the Microsoft technology stack.

Rainer is recognized as an expert concerning .NET development, software architecture and databases. He has written numerous books and articles on C#, database development, Microsoft Azure, XAML, and web development. Additionally he regularly speaks at conferences, workshops and trainings in Europe and the US. In 2010 Rainer has become one of the first MVPs for the Microsoft Windows Azure platform. In 2015, Rainer also became a Microsoft Regional Director. 2016, Rainer also got the MVP award for Visual Studio and Developer Technologies.

Rainer graduated the Higher Technical School Leonding (AT) for MIS with honors and holds a BSc (Hons) Computer Studies of the University of Derby (UK).

CEO and lead architect of DAENET Corporation, which is Microsoft long term Gold Certified Partner and leading technology integrator specialized in software technologies with strong focus on Cloud Computing, IoT and Machine Learning.

I'm Microsoft Regional Director and Azure MVP working with Microsoft on helping customers to adopt modern technologies. Have long term experience as a software developer, architect, speaker and author. My focus is practical implementation of custom solutions, which enable digital transformation.

I also work as docent for software engineering and distributed systems on University of Applied sciences in Frankfurt am Main. Working on PhD at University of Plymouth - node Frankfurt with focus on artificial intelligence and distributed systems.

Jennifer Parak currently works as a Software Developer at ThoughtWorks. Having started her career working with Microservices in a Java/Spring Boot environment, she recently found herself working with smart ecosystems by complete chance and developed a great passion for it. She’s a passionate advocate for Diversity in Tech and is interested in bridging the gap between hardware and software as well as having more diversity in the industry.

Ursula enjoys meeting new people and learning about cultures. In the IT industry she started as a web designer, worked in different departments such as web programming as well as visual presentation. Today she enjoys most analyzing processes. Ursula is an Agile Business Analyst at ThoughtWorks and has gained experience over the years in a wide range of delivery engagements and domains, with a diverse set of teams and clients, co-located and now remote.

Maik is an introvert, stammers and loves to give talks. What could possibly go wrong? At codecentric AG, Maik helps customers to establish Chaos Engineering practices. In his +1 time he’s maintaining Chaos Monkey for Spring Boot.

As Microsoft MVP for Azure, Thomas Tomow is contributing to the community, that cares about modern technologies around cloud (e.g., Host for Azure Meetup Konstanz or Azure Meetup Stuttgart). He works at CGI in Germany as Director, leading a team of specialists in Cloud, AI, and IoT. He likes doing Karate for balancing his life and shares experience and knowledge with other like-minded people

Christian Leinweber ist Senior IT-Architekt bei MaibornWolff mit viel Erfahrung bei der Architektur verteilter Systeme mit Microservices bis hin zur Gestaltung und Integration von Anwendungslandschaften. Sein Fokus liegt auf Anwendungen im Kubernetes-Umfeld und Cloud-native-Architekturen. Leidenschaftlich baut er Delivery Pipelines und realisiert DevOps-Prinzipien. Er setzt sich dafür ein, dass sich das Domänenverständnis der Menschen in der Architektur wiederfindet.

Nico Meisenzahl works as Senior Cloud & DevOps Consultant at white duck. As an elected Microsoft MVP, Docker Community Leader and GitLab Hero, his current passion is for topics around Kubernetes, CI/CD, Automation, DevOps, and Cloud.
Nico is a frequent speaker at conferences, user group events and Meetups in Europe and the United States.

Office 365 Business Consultant & Power Platform Advocate, MVP Office Apps & Services.

I focus on the art of teamwork and improving business processes. Inspiring employees to evolve their ways to work, to set up a new attitude and engaging leaders to connect with employees is the most challenging, but most rewarding part of my job. I strongly believe that it is my mission to establish an engaging mindset. Power Platform is an excellent approach to foster a #learnitall culture in organizations which is why I chose to evangelize!

I am a speaker at #MSIgnite, #MVPSummit, #MSBizAppSummit, several SPS Events and PowerSaturday Events.

Elio Struyf is an independent Engineering Lead working for Valo Intranet, Blogger, and Speaker on a mission to share his tried-and-true wisdom with as many IT developers as possible. Armed with a deep-rooted passion for all things information technology, he has always been of the belief that one’s job should go beyond something that just “pays the bills”. What you do for a living should leave you feeling inspired every day of your life. For the last 10 years, he has been immersed in Office 365 and SharePoint development, earning multiple awards along the way. He has also had the opportunity to share his know-how at various speaking engagements and create articles for his blog that help others on their professional journeys.

Manuel is a co-founder and passionate software developer at Snapbean Software GmbH in Switzerland. He's interested in technology and new ways to solve other people's problems. His primary focus is on software architecture, software testing, clean code, and cloud development.

Callum Whyte is a Microsoft MVP specialising in building robust scalable solutions on Azure and the .NET stack, as well as websites with the open-source Umbraco CMS.

Away from his desk you can find him organising community events; from local meetups and hackathons, to global conferences and roadshows. He’s an active contributor to open source projects, a regular speaker at events all over the world, as well as co-host of a weekly YouTube series “UmbraCoffee”!

Eldert can be described as an Azure MVP, Cloud Solution Architect, blogger, public speaker and technical author. He can regularly be seen on conferences and user groups, speaking on Cloud related topics, with a strong focus on Azure. His experience with the Cloud comes from his daily work with these technologies in many innovative projects with various clients, as well as his drive to further dive into the latest developments in his spare time. Eldert enjoys sharing his knowledge with the community, and believes this is the best way to each other obtain more and better opportunities.

Xiaofan
is an Experience Designer at ThoughtWorks. With a background in Human–Machine Interaction, she's always been an Experience Design Strategist driven by the user needs and product strategy. She is a problem solver by using design thinking and value proposition.
Xiaofan thrives on user research, product design, interactive design, and service design. Her days are lived in understanding, communication, research, strategy, whiteboard sketches, and test results.

I am a Principal at atwork currently living in Vienna, Austria. My interests range from technology to travel. I am also interested in science fiction, writing, and innovation. I am recognized as an expert in Microsoft Cloud solutions. Since 2015, I am also a Regional Director for Microsoft. My expertise is related to online technologies, and my specialty is in Microsoft Cloud Services like Azure and Microsoft 365. I help architecture planning companies with cloud solutions, and provide strategy, consulting and architectural planning of cloud projects. In addition, I am one of the organizational heads of cloudusergroup for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. I have authored numerous books, articles and blogs. My passion is online and social media, cloud computing, cybersecurity. I have a Master’s of International Business Administration from the University of Vienna, Austria. Talk to me about: Cloud Computing, Cloud Architecture & Strategy, Change Management, Microsoft Azure, Office 365, Enterprise Social.

I work as consultant and I am specialized in designing solutions for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure and I am a conference speaker, blogger (blog.atwork.at) and a Microsoft MVP.