JASON N. GAYLORD is an application developer and Director of Technology at United One Resources in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. His programming career started with a simple GOTO statement and continued over 15 years of developing Windows and web applications. During this time, Jason has had the opportunity to plan, build, test, and deploy several enterprise applications including integrations with accounting and operating systems and B2B web applications used by some of the top banks in the United States.

Outside of the normal day to day activities, Jason blogs, speaks, and organizes technology events including TECHbash and NEPA GiveCamp. He’s the group leader for the .NET Valley technology user group. Recently, Jason was recognized as a Microsoft MVP for 10 consecutive years. He remains a member of the ASPInsiders, a group that provides product feedback directly to the ASP.NET team. You can find out more about Jason by visiting his website at jasongaylord.com. You can follow him on Twitter at @jgaylord.

CHRISTIAN WENZ started working almost exclusively with web technologies in 1993 and has not looked back since. As a developer and project manager he has been responsible for websites from medium–sized companies up to large, international enterprises. As an author, he has written or co-written over 100 books that have been translated into 10 languages. As a consultant, he helped companies and teams of developers to make their applications more reliable, better performing, and more secure. Christian frequently writes for various IT magazines, is a sought-after speaker at developer conferences around the world, and is always keen on sharing technologies he is excited about with others. He contributes to various open source projects, is a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and an ASPInsider, and co-author of several developer certifications. You can follow him on Twitter at @chwenz.

PRANAV RASTOGI is a member of the Microsoft ASP.NET product team and is based in Seattle. Over the past years, Pranav has worked on a variety of areas such as ASP.NET Web Forms, Dynamic Data, and more recently ASP.NET SignalR. He is passionate about understanding web developer woes with the Microsoft stack and helps champion tools, packages, or libraries that will enhance the web development experience on the Microsoft stack. Pranav is also a regular speaker on a variety of ASP.NET related topics at various worldwide conferences. He blogs about his experiences at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pranav_rastogi/. Before joining Microsoft, Pranav graduated from the University Of Florida with a masters in Computer Science.

Pranav is also a food junkie who sometimes works as a Chef de Cuisine at home. He is an adventure seeker and can be often found backpacking in the wilderness. In this spare time Pranav regularly practices his bartending skills on his friends. If you know anyone who is looking to throw a party and needs a bartender, then get in touch with him. You can follow Pranav on Twitter at @rustd.

TODD MIRANDA is an active proponent of .NET technologies and software craftsmanship as a whole. He has been developing on various platforms for over 20 years and has been involved with .NET since it was previewed in 2000. He has worked with many of the .NET platforms but focuses primarily on ASP.NET. He is the owner of NxtDimension Solutions and provides consulting and training on the Microsoft stack. As a Microsoft MVP, Todd works closely with Microsoft. He is the co-founder of the Birmingham .NET User Group and remains active in the development community. He has recorded hundreds of online training videos on Microsoft development topics including security, JavaScript, Silverlight, WPF, Expression, and ASP.NET. He is an INETA speaker and regularly presents at user groups, community events, and technical conferences. You can follow Todd on Twitter @tmiranda.

SCOTT HANSELMAN is a web developer who has been blogging at http://hanselman.com for over a decade. He works on Azure and ASP.NET 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. You can follow Scott on Twitter at @shanselman.

KEN COX has been creating web applications with Microsoft technologies since the earliest betas of ASP Classic in the mid-1990s. He has worked on dozens of ASP.NET sites, large and small, and is the author of ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies published by John Wiley & Sons. Ken was honored as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for ASP.NET for 15 consecutive years prior to his retirement and remains an ASPInsider. Ken does consulting work from his home in Nipissing Township, Ontario, Canada.

BIPIN JOSHI is an independent blogger and author who writes about apparently unrelated topics — yoga and technology. A former software consultant and trainer by profession, Bipin has been programming since 1995 and has worked with the .NET Framework since its inception. He is a published author and has authored or co-authored more than a half dozen books and numerous articles on .NET technologies. Bipin was a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) during his tenure as a software consultant and trainer. He has also penned a few books on yoga. Having embraced the yoga way of life, he enjoys the intoxicating presence of God and writes about yoga, life, and technology. He can be reached at www.bipinjoshi.com.

JOHN PETERSEN, an early adopter of the Microsoft .NET Platform, has over 20 years of experience architecting and developing software. Currently, John is a practice director in the Technology Platform Group at Neudesic, LLC, a Microsoft National Systems Integrator and Gold ISV Partner and is a 10-time recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional Award. John is a current ASP.NET/IIS MVP. John has spoken at numerous industry events, including VSLive and DevConnections, as well as at many regional events and Code Camps. John is also a regular contributor to CODE Magazine.

JEFFERY TAY has been developing and designing .NET solutions since 2002, specializing in solutions for the education and medical sectors. He was awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for the last 3 years. He has experience in Java and most Microsoft technologies such as Silverlight, SQL Server, and Windows Server. He is an associate director at the National University of Singapore where he leads a team that manages the university’s Learning Management System and comes up with new solutions where the use of IT can enhance teaching. You can reach Jeffery at taykwama@hotmail.com.

DEEPAK VERMA has been developing and designing web solutions for the last 10 years. During these years, Deepak has been involved in technologies such as Flash Scripting, Flex, ColdFusion, Silverlight, Java, and PHP and now is mostly working on Microsoft stack. He is currently working as a Software Development Engineer in Test for Microsoft. At Microsoft he has contributed to Visual Studio Dynamic data tooling, multi-targeting, Razor editor and tooling, Azure SDK for Java, PHP & .NET, Visual Studio HTML and CSS editors, Azure Mobile Services, and NuGet. He lives in Redmond, Washington, with his wife, Madhu, and children, Adya and Kian. You can reach him at deepu_verma@yahoo.com.