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Lars Klint

Azure Technical Instructor - A Cloud Guru

Lars is an author, trainer, Microsoft MVP, community leader, aspiring Microsoft Azure expert and part time classic car collector. He is heavily involved in the space of cloud computing services, especially Azure, loves HoloLens and mixed reality, and is a published author, solution architect and writer for numerous publications. He has been a part of the software development community for the past 20 years and co-organises the DDD Melbourne community conference, organises developer events with Microsoft, and also runs a part time car restoration business. He has spoken at numerous technical events around the world and is an expert in Australian Outback Internet.

Callum Whyte

.NET Developer, Microsoft MVP

Callum is a Microsoft MVP specialising in building robust scalable microservice and serverless systems on the .NET stack, as well as websites with the open-source Umbraco CMS.<br/><br/>Away from his desk you can find him organising community events; from local meetups and hackathons to the annual 300 person Umbraco UK Festival conference. He’s an active contributor to open source projects, as well as co-host of a weekly YouTube series “UmbraCoffee” and a regular speaker at events all over the world!

Floor Drees

Senior DevRel Program Manager @ Microsoft

Lennard Fonteijn

Umbraco Tech Lead @ Arlanet / Lecturer @ AUAS / Umbraco MVP

Lennard is a passionate developer with over a decade of experience in building websites, games and other software. He has been working with Umbraco since version 4.0, is an Umbraco MVP, an Ucommerce MVP and teaches students how to be a Software Engineer at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. In his spare-time, what's left of it besides his numerous personal projects at least, he enjoys to play a game or two, maybe three.

Emmanuel Tissera

Technical Lead at Luminary Digital, Umbraco MVP

Emmanuel works with some of the brightest minds in digital at Luminary helping developers and clients get their content management right. Prior to that, he was a tech lead for Emirates connecting customers to plane transponders. His 17 years of professional experience began in an optimistic era when he tried to build his own CMS in an effort to beat the Goliaths at their game (spoiler, he didn’t). <br/>Emmanuel is passionate about content localisation, content management systems, and content as a service. He will take any opportunity to shout about these topics from the rooftops. In his spare time, Emmanuel could be either found on a ladder repairing a mess of his own making or reading fiction by the fireplace.

Busra Sengul

Yellowphin - ASP.Net Developer, Umbraco HQ - Documentation Curator Intern

Old teacher, now a developer. Turkish.

Richard Ockerby

Digital Technical Director at Drummond Central

Passionate coder and lover of new tech.

Søren Spelling Lund

Ucommerce, founder

Søren has worked in the field of e-commerce for 20 years and is founder of Ucommerce, the first e-commerce platform for Umbraco. Since 2008, when the first version of Ucommerce launched for Umbraco, he has focused on bringing the best of content and commerce together as well as creating delightful experiences for developers working with the platform.<br/><br/>Ucommerce continues to be the forefront of awesome e-commerce for Umbraco with support for complex, omni channel e-commerce projects in both B2C and B2B due to its highly performant, customizable commerce engine and exception level of engagement and assistance for its partners.

Rachel Breeze

Senior Developer at Sigma Consulting Solutions Ltd

Rachel has been a developer for over 20 years, and has been working with Umbraco since 2012, and is an Umbraco MVP. She is passionate about accessibility, supporting and encouraging future developers, and in her spare time she enjoys scuba diving. She also drinks copious amounts of tea.

Dennie Declercq

Microsoft MVP

Dennie is a Microsoft MVP Developer Technologies and has experience in accessibility with Microsoft technologies. In daily life, Dennie is president and developer at DDSoft, a nonprofit in function of People With Disabilities. Dennie invented technical solutions and systems to help people with disabilities to participate in their daily life. Thanks to his autism he’s the right man at the right spot to contribute as a volunteer in function of people with disabilities.

Poornima Nayar

Freelance Developer

Poornima is a .Net developer with over 7 years of experience in .Net and Umbraco. She is passionate about learning new technologies and keeping herself up-to-date with the latest developments in technology. Outside her work, Poornima enjoys music and is undergoing training in Indian Classical music. Based in Langley, UK she mothers a little girl and spends her spare time reading, cooking and watching movies.

Laurent Bugnion

Cloud Advocate @ Microsoft

I work as Senior Cloud Developer Advocate for Microsoft after almost 10 years spent working for IdentityMine and Valorem, two leading firms in Microsoft technologies. I am one of the foremost experts for XAML and C# based development. I code in Azure, Windows, WPF, Xamarin (iOS and Android), ASP.NET. On my free time, I write for technical publications such as MSDN Magazine, and my blog is on blog.galasoft.ch. I am a frequent speaker at conferences such as VSLive, TechSummit, NDC, Oredev and many other international events. In the past I spoke at Microsoft MIX, TechEd, TechDays and more. Prior to joining Microsoft, I was a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Windows development from 2007 to 2017, a Microsoft Regional Director from 2013 and a Xamarin Most Valuable Professional from 2015. I am also the author of the well-known open source framework MVVM Light for Windows, WPF, Xamarin, and of the popular Pluralsight reference course about MVVM Light.

Filip Bruun Bech-Larsen

Program Manager for the Umbraco CMS

I manage the Open Source project that is Umbraco CMS and the team(s) that work on it. I will do my best to ensure that the collaboration with the community and partners continues to grow.

Bjarke Berg

Umbraco HQ

Senior Developer on the Umbraco Core team at HQ and project lead on the migration to .NET Core.

Bjarke Berg

Umbraco HQ

Senior Developer on the Umbraco Core team at HQ and project lead on the migration to .NET Core.

Filip Bruun Bech-Larsen

Program Manager for the Umbraco CMS

I manage the Open Source project that is Umbraco CMS and the team(s) that work on it. I will do my best to ensure that the collaboration with the community and partners continues to grow.

Emma Burstow

.Net developer working at poweredbypie

As a .Net developer, open-source contributor and mother of two, Emma is a firm believer in the importance of tech communities. Aside from her day job, building integrations, she spends much of her free time reviewing other people's code, giving talks about the things she's learned and playing board games with whomever she can take hostage.

Sebastiaan Janssen

Community Contributions Steward at Umbraco HQ

Community Contributions Steward at Umbraco HQ

Jeffrey Schoemaker

Co-founder uMarketingSolutions

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Jesper Mayntzhusen

Package Team Lead + QA & Support Engineer at Umbraco HQ

Aspiring docs king. Structure nerd.

Richard Soeteman

Package Master

Author of CMSImport, SEO Checker, Bulkmanager, Media protect and member export packages for Umbraco CMS.

Ingrid van Beek

Optimization and Online Personalisation Lead at Basic Orange

An user experience designer with a passion for helping companies grow and delivering the best experience for their users. With the online world transitioning to more personalized online experiences, things get even more exciting.<br/><br/>At Amsterdam based online agency Basic Orange I help companies use personalization effectively by looking at the entire process, starting with persona and customer journey sessions and observations to gain insight in user's behavior, motivations and needs. Besides that I also work on improving our online personalization plug-in uPersonal for the Umbraco CMS.<br/><br/>I have a Master’s Degree in Interaction Design and 7+ years of experience in designing user experiences while working at both and the agency side as well as client-side.

Matt Brailsford

Technical Director at Outfield Digital Ltd, an Umbraco development house and owners of Vendr, eCommerce for Umbraco

Umbraco Master and 7 time Umbraco MVP with more than 10 years online experience.<br/><br/>Specialties: Umbraco, ASP.NET, MVC, C#, SQL Server, HTML, CSS, Javascript, AngularJS,VueJS, Web Standards, Responsive Web Design (RWD)

Callum Whyte

.NET Developer, Microsoft MVP

Callum is a Microsoft MVP specialising in building robust scalable microservice and serverless systems on the .NET stack, as well as websites with the open-source Umbraco CMS.<br/><br/>Away from his desk you can find him organising community events; from local meetups and hackathons to the annual 300 person Umbraco UK Festival conference. He’s an active contributor to open source projects, as well as co-host of a weekly YouTube series “UmbraCoffee” and a regular speaker at events all over the world!

Ilham Boulghallat

Umbraco CEO or Community Engagement Officer

Community liaison. Hopeless research/practice combo advocate.

Arnold Visser

Partner Friend Maker & Advocate @ Umbraco HQ

Umbraco Partner Manager with agency/developer background, Using Umbraco since at least 2006, Umbraco Advocate even before I started here.

Damiaan Peeters

Umbraco MVP & Certified Master.

.Net and Azure developer, seo lover & magician for the time left.

Paul de Metter

Digital Strategist @ Arlanet - Umbraco since 2005

Founder of Arlanet and Digital Strategist for their clients, Paul brings more than 20 years of experience of excelling between business and development making him a true digital hybrid.

Tim Geyssens

Freelance Umbraco developer - Nibble.be

Long time Umbraco fanboy (since 2006) located in Belgium.

Scott Hanselman

Programmer, teacher, speaker - Microsoft

I'm a teacher. I speak all over to whomever will listen. I have written code that you've used. I've been blogging for over a decade and podcasting for about half that. I speak, code, write, empower, promote, braid, learn and listen - usually not in that order. More about me.

Floor Drees

Senior DevRel Program Manager @ Microsoft

Eleftheria Batsou

App Developer at MKI Hellas

The speaker is a passionate app developer and UI designer from Greece. She has a major in informatics and telecommunication of engineering and a master’s degree in Graphic Arts and Multimedia. She has created educational content for several platforms such as Packt, Udemy, Skillshare. she produces motivational talks, tutorials and how-to videos on her youtube channel. She is self-motivated and working hard to make this world a little bit better every day. When she isn’t glued to a computer screen, Eleftheria spends time working out and strolling in the nature. Her friends would describe her as easy-going, passionate about life and the fastest chocolate eater.

Lennard Fonteijn

Umbraco Tech Lead @ Arlanet / Lecturer @ AUAS / Umbraco MVP

Lennard is a passionate developer with over a decade of experience in building websites, games and other software. He has been working with Umbraco since version 4.0, is an Umbraco MVP, an Ucommerce MVP and teaches students how to be a Software Engineer at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. In his spare-time, what's left of it besides his numerous personal projects at least, he enjoys to play a game or two, maybe three.

Marcin Zajkowski

CTO at Cogworks

Marcin Zajkowski's journey with Umbraco (.NET, Open Source) began back in 2008 while he was doing an internship in Microsoft. Today he works with the leading UK Umbraco Gold Partner - The Cogworks - as CTO. Marcin is also responsible for organizing Umbraco PL Festival as well as the Poland Umbraco Meetup group + recently, together with his colleague Callum Whyte, he is hosting umbraCoffee LIVE on YouTube, where they're chatting about what happened in the community / Umbraco in each following week.<br/><br/>Besides Umbraco, Marcin is also a co-owner and CTO/CKO in programming school for children - WOW School - where he is also teaching young minds how to code (Umbraco included! ;)).

Jonathan Mills

Technology Advisor

Jonathan is a Pluralsight Author, Technology Advisor, and Business Leader. As a member of the MultiCloud team at World Wide Technology, Jonathan is able to take on the most challenging problems our customers face and provide innovative solutions involving Cloud Strategy, Migration, Optimization, DevOps, Data Management<br/><br/>As a dedicated developer community leader, Jonathan serves on the board of directors for the Kansas City Developers Conference, Microsoft MVP, and is a regular speaker and keynote presenter at conferences around the globe.

Jeffrey Schoemaker

Co-founder uMarketingSolutions

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