Team

Bart was one of the original Reactive Extensions (Rx) team members and was the lead developer for Rx 2.0. Later he created the Reaqtor technology, serving as the chief architect of the core components, while helping various teams to operate the technology at massive scale.

He joined the WPF team at Microsoft in 2007, right after graduating in Belgium. Prior to joining Microsoft, Bart was an MVP for C# for four years. He also wrote some books, used to be addicted to blogging, authored some Pluralsight courses on C# internals, is a popular speaker at technology conferences, and frequently interviewed on Channel9. Currently, Bart is actively working on incubation projects in the space of edge computing.

Carmel is a software engineer at endjin, LinkedIn Learning instructor and STEM ambassador.

Over the past four years she has been focused on delivering cloud-first solutions to a variety of problems. These have ranged from highly-performant serverless architectures, to web applications, to reporting and insight pipelines and data analytics engines.

In her time at endjin, she has written many blog posts covering a huge range of topics, including deconstructing Rx operators and mental well-being and managing remote working.

Carmel's first LinkedIn Learning course on how to prepare for the Az-204 exam - developing solutions for Microsoft Azure - is due for release next month. And over the last couple of years she has also spoken at NDC, APISpecs and SQLBits. These talks covered a range of topics, from reactive big-data processing to secure Azure architectures.

She is also passionate about diversity and inclusivity in tech. She is a STEM ambassador in her local community and is taking part in a local mentorship scheme. Through this work she hopes to be a part of positive change in the industry.

Carmel won "Apprentice Engineer of the Year" at the Computing Rising Star Awards 2019.

Ian has worked in various aspects of computing, including computer networking, embedded real-time systems, broadcast television systems, medical imaging, and all forms of cloud computing. Ian is a Technical Fellow at endjin, and Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies.

He is the author of O'Reilly's Programming C# 8.0, and has written Pluralsight courses on WPF (and here) and the TPL. Technology brings him joy.

Howard is a technologist with over 20 years of experience. He's an entrepreneur, investor, the co-founder of endjin, and has been an Microsoft Azure MVP since 2016.