Microsoft MVPs

Microsoft MVPs

All Microsoft MVPs that have added their award to their speaker profile.

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David Neal

David Neal

David is a family man, software developer, musician, illustrator, and Microsoft MVP living in North Georgia, USA. David runs on a high-octane mixture of caffeine and JavaScript, and is made entirely of bacon.

David is a family man, software developer, musician, illustrator, and Microsoft MVP living in North Georgia, USA. David runs on a high-octane mixture of caffeine and JavaScript, and is made entirely of bacon. Show more

James Bartlett

James Bartlett

James Bartlett is a Principal Consultant at P3 Adaptive, a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, and co-host of "The Drill Down with Ahmad and James," which is a bi-weekly interactive video livestream on LinkedIn that focuses on Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. James is also a co-organizer of the Iowa Power BI User Group and the Higher Education Power BI User Group, and he has given presentations at conferences and user groups all over the world, with his most notable recent appearances being at Data Point Prague, FabCon Europe in Stockholm, and RADACAD's Power BI and Fabric Global Summit. In his free time, James likes to write and contribute to open-source software, play the guitar, produce electronic music, post articles on his blog at DataVolume.xyz, and volunteer with a nonprofit organization called Tech Journey, whose mission is "to inspire youth to increase their knowledge and interest in technology by providing engaging learning opportunities led by technology professionals."

James Bartlett is a Principal Consultant at P3 Adaptive, a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, and co-host of "The Drill Down with Ahmad and James," which is a bi-weekly interactive video livestream on LinkedIn that focuses on Microsoft Fabric and Power BI.... Show more

David Schneider

David Schneider

Enthusiastic about technology, passionate about growing, inspiring and leading technical teams, getting-things-done-mentality and problem solving skills. Specialized in Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Azure and SharePoint. Currently working as CTO for isolutions - a leading Microsoft partner in Switzerland - and in charge of setting up the delivery center in Barcelona. Awarded as Microsoft MVP since 2015 and as a Microsoft Regional Director since 2020.

Together with the isolutions team, he is committed to making customers happy and successful every day. The focus is on a secure and sustainable integration of various Microsoft and third-party products.

He lives in Barcelona, but can also be met regularly in Switzerland. With pleasure he shares his secret tips for the best fondue.

Enthusiastic about technology, passionate about growing, inspiring and leading technical teams, getting-things-done-mentality and problem solving skills. Specialized in Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Azure and SharePoint. Cur... Show more

Loiane Groner

Loiane Groner

Loiane Groner is a Java Champion, Angular GDE, Microsoft MVP, Oracle ACE with over 18 years of experience and a Director at BNY. In her spare time, she loves contributing to the community, and she publishes tech videos on Youtube and creates free programming courses at https://loiane.training.

Loiane Groner is a Java Champion, Angular GDE, Microsoft MVP, Oracle ACE with over 18 years of experience and a Director at BNY. In her spare time, she loves contributing to the community, and she publishes tech videos on Youtube and creates free pro... Show more

Stefán Jökull Sigurðarson

Stefán Jökull Sigurðarson

Stefán Jökull has been a professional programmer for over 20 years, although he wrote his first BASIC program on an old Amstrad CPC 464 way back in 1986. He works at Have I Been Pwned remotely from Iceland where he focuses on improving Have I Been Pwned. He has a lot of experience with systems that require attention to details and have high customer impact.

Stefán is also a Microsoft MVP, a member of the .NET Foundation, and specializes in all things .NET with a focus on performance, security, and analytics/telemetry.

When he's not working, he enjoys time with the family, working on OSS software, building Lego sets and having the occasional beer when meeting fellow developers.

Stefán Jökull has been a professional programmer for over 20 years, although he wrote his first BASIC program on an old Amstrad CPC 464 way back in 1986. He works at Have I Been Pwned remotely from Iceland where he focuses on improving Have I Been Pw... Show more

Drago Petrovic

Drago Petrovic

Drago Petrovic is a Microsoft 365 Apps and Services MVP, Book Co-author, is recognized as one of the Top Swiss Teams, Exchange and Microsoft 365 influencers.
Being an IT professional for more than 18 years and heading Teams voice and Microsoft Exchange projects with more than 150K Mailboxes, or Cloud (O365) Projects for some of the leading Pharma, Insurance and Energy industries, has accelerated his skills exponentially.
Drago also runs his Microsoft Blog www.msb365.blog and writes guest articles on www.practical365.com and www.techgenix.com about Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft 365. Currently, he is very active with his www.mvp.taxi and Microsoft 365 Podcast Project.
Microsoft has awarded Drago with the MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award in recognition for his Community work.

Drago Petrovic is a Microsoft 365 Apps and Services MVP, Book Co-author, is recognized as one of the Top Swiss Teams, Exchange and Microsoft 365 influencers. Being an IT professional for more than 18 years and heading Teams voice and Microsoft Excha... Show more

John Moore

John Moore

John Moore is an Enterprise Architect specializing in the Microsoft 365 platform and its capabilities.  He has spent over 15 years delivering technology services that enhance user experience and enables them to work efficiently on any device from any location.  John is passionate about sharing new technology with others and transforming the way we work. John is a Microsoft MVP in M365 Apps & Services.

John Moore is an Enterprise Architect specializing in the Microsoft 365 platform and its capabilities.  He has spent over 15 years delivering technology services that enhance user experience and enables them to work efficiently on any device from any... Show more

Alex Dunn

Alex Dunn

Alex Dunn is the founder of Cephable - the platform that empowers people to control their digital world in ways that work best for them. He's also an inductee of The Game Awards Future Class, Forbes 30u30 in Boston, Microsoft MVP, and PubConf Champion. His background in accessibility, application development, and applied AI has leaned into enabling applications to do more for people and businesses using scalable architectures and design, distributed services, cloud infrastructure, and innovative edge technologies. Alex does his best to remain platform agnostic in his practices and development with specialties in C#, Kotlin, and TypeScript while building for cross-platform compatibility. You might find him speaking at all sorts of conferences and events around the world, streaming on Twitch, and on Pluralsight.

Outside technology, you can find him playing guitar, working with animal rescue, or exploring the great outdoors.

Alex Dunn is the founder of Cephable - the platform that empowers people to control their digital world in ways that work best for them. He's also an inductee of The Game Awards Future Class, Forbes 30u30 in Boston, Microsoft MVP, and PubConf Champio... Show more

Egil Hansen

Egil Hansen

Experienced software developer/architect, international speaker, and Microsoft MVP for developer technologies, with a strong focus on creating maintainable software that solves real business problems in the cloud and on-prem, using techniques and practices such as domain-driven design, test-driven development, and following clean-code principles.

Egil is also the creator and maintainer of bUnit, an open-source library for testing Blazor components, and AngleSharp.Diffing, a library for semantic comparison of HTML in C#.

Egil has worked with many technology stacks and architectural patterns throughout his career. He is now primarily focused on the .NET ecosystem, including backend and front-end technologies, and developing solutions running in the cloud.

Experienced software developer/architect, international speaker, and Microsoft MVP for developer technologies, with a strong focus on creating maintainable software that solves real business problems in the cloud and on-prem, using techniques and pra... Show more

Wilmer Alcivar

Wilmer Alcivar

My name is Wilmer Alcivar, originally from Ecuador, I started in the CRM world in 2012. I’m a big Juventus fan and like to spend time with my girlfriend, try all kinds of beers, play video games and try my best to keep up with new features of the Power Platform.

My first version was Dynamics CRM 2011 On-Premise, what a great version it was. In 2015 I moved to Uruguay in order to improve my technical knowledge, I enjoyed my time in there, they are passionate about football.

In 2019 I moved to Madrid, a beautiful city the weather is spectacular and the food is amazing. Finally in 2022 I moved to The Netherlands looking for new professional challenges, Amsterdam is so beautiful, I love the vibe of the city and the people here are so kind.

My name is Wilmer Alcivar, originally from Ecuador, I started in the CRM world in 2012. I’m a big Juventus fan and like to spend time with my girlfriend, try all kinds of beers, play video games and try my best to keep up with new features of the Pow... Show more

Carlos Lopez

Carlos Lopez

Microsoft Data Platform MVP
Guatemala Tech Community leader,
Cloud Database Engineer.
Experienced in multi-platform databases on RDBMS MS SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, Oracle, MySQL, No SQL experienced in MongoDB as well.
Experienced in large-scale relational databases management support, passionate about K8S and Docker container tech-oriented to development and data platform.

Advanced Linux user, Gentoo distro fan since v.1.4.

In his spare time, Carlos is an enthusiastic swimmer and runner.

Microsoft Data Platform MVP Guatemala Tech Community leader, Cloud Database Engineer. Experienced in multi-platform databases on RDBMS MS SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, Oracle, MySQL, No SQL experienced in MongoDB as well. Experienced in large-scale ... Show more

Alba Silvente Fuentes

Alba Silvente Fuentes

Alba Silvente Fuentes, aka Dawntraoz, is a Sr Frontend Engineer. She also loves writing about FE development, Jamstack, and Web Performance on her blog, speaking at conferences, hosting a Spanish tech podcast, and working hard in the open-source community. She is also a GoogleDevExpert in Web Technologies, an Microsoft MVP and an ambassador at WTM & Nuxt.

Alba Silvente Fuentes, aka Dawntraoz, is a Sr Frontend Engineer. She also loves writing about FE development, Jamstack, and Web Performance on her blog, speaking at conferences, hosting a Spanish tech podcast, and working hard in the open-source comm... Show more

Vladimir Gusarov

Vladimir Gusarov

With over 30 years of experience in enterprise software development, Vladimir Gusarov has transitioned from software engineer to project and development manager and now serves as the Director of Software Engineering. He is recognized for his expertise in establishing efficient development processes for large-scale enterprise applications, with a particular focus on building robust enterprise products and engineering platforms. Vladimir is dedicated to applying advanced practices such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), implementing clean architecture principles, and integrating secure development methodologies to ensure scalable, maintainable, and secure solutions for organizations.

Since 2010, Vladimir has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), and he is currently active in the DevOps category – a testament to his ongoing contributions to the developer community. He was also a member of the ALM | DevOps Rangers team, where he played a key role in driving the adoption of modern development practices, particularly in the areas of ALM and DevOps. His commitment to modern engineering is reflected in his advocacy for Infrastructure as Code, clean architecture, and secure development practices, which he consistently applies to enterprise-scale projects and platform engineering initiatives.

With over 30 years of experience in enterprise software development, Vladimir Gusarov has transitioned from software engineer to project and development manager and now serves as the Director of Software Engineering. He is recognized for his expertis... Show more

Christian Ritter

Christian Ritter

He/Him | Father of two ♥️♥️ | PowerShell aficionado | Automation enthusiast | Blog author | Founder of PSUGFFM | Embracing my inner nerd |

He/Him | Father of two ♥️♥️ | PowerShell aficionado | Automation enthusiast | Blog author | Founder of PSUGFFM | Embracing my inner nerd | Show more

Dinesh Kumar Prabakaran

Dinesh Kumar Prabakaran

Lead Product Manager at TNQTech

Lead Product Manager at TNQTech Show more

Glenn Berry

Glenn Berry

Glenn works as a Services Database Engineer for Koerber Supply Chain Software in Elizabeth, CO. He is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP. He is also an Adjunct Faculty member at University College - University of Denver, where has been teaching since 2000. He has completed the Master Teacher Program at Denver University - University College. He is the author of the book SQL Server Hardware. Glenn blogs regularly at https://glennsqlperformance.com/. He is active on Twitter as @GlennAlanBerry.

Glenn works as a Services Database Engineer for Koerber Supply Chain Software in Elizabeth, CO. He is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP. He is also an Adjunct Faculty member at University College - University of Denver, where has been teaching since 200... Show more

David Gardiner

David Gardiner

David Gardiner has been creating software for over 25 years. He has a passion for continual learning and improving quality, and enjoys being in and creating environments where these happen. A Microsoft MVP (Development Technologies), he runs the Adelaide .NET User Group and is on the organising team for DDD Adelaide developer conference.

Based in Adelaide, South Australia, he works as a Senior Developer at SixPivot. In his spare time he contributes to numerous open source projects (including some of his own), and is a package moderator at Chocolatey.org

He blogs at https://david.gardiner.net.au/ and can be found at https://mastodon.online/@DavidRGardiner and https://bsky.app/profile/david.gardiner.net.au

David Gardiner has been creating software for over 25 years. He has a passion for continual learning and improving quality, and enjoys being in and creating environments where these happen. A Microsoft MVP (Development Technologies), he runs the Adel... Show more

Michelle Wong

Michelle Wong

Michelle is an MCT & MVP of Business Applications. She integrates the possibilities between Microsoft 365 and Power Platform in her projects. She also specializes in Power Automate and Power Apps.
Also, she makes an active contribution to the Power Platform community, is one of the leaders of the Meetup User Group "Microsoft 365 Noord Nederland" in the Netherlands, and participates in various Power Apps and Power Automate User Groups, and speaks at conferences and Meetup meetings.

Michelle is an MCT & MVP of Business Applications. She integrates the possibilities between Microsoft 365 and Power Platform in her projects. She also specializes in Power Automate and Power Apps. Also, she makes an active contribution to the Power ... Show more

Rebekka Aalbers

Rebekka Aalbers

Rebekka Aalbers works as a Power Platform technical consultant at Fellowmind . Her focus is on building low code solutions with the Power Platform. Her drive is to get the most out of the out of the box capabilities of the platform and only use custom development when it really adds value. She loves to help people getting started on their Power Platform journey. Rebekka received the Microsoft Business Applications MVP award in 2019.

Rebekka Aalbers works as a Power Platform technical consultant at Fellowmind . Her focus is on building low code solutions with the Power Platform. Her drive is to get the most out of the out of the box capabilities of the platform and only use custo... Show more

Florian Rappl

Florian Rappl

Dr. Florian Rappl is Solution Architect for IoT and distributed web applications at smapiot. His main interest lies in the creation of innovative architectures that scale in development and usage. He won several prizes for his work and is a Microsoft MVP in the area of development technologies. He regularly blogs and writes articles for popular magazines and websites in the web development space.

Dr. Florian Rappl is Solution Architect for IoT and distributed web applications at smapiot. His main interest lies in the creation of innovative architectures that scale in development and usage. He won several prizes for his work and is a Microsoft... Show more

Nati Turtledove

Nati Turtledove

I am a 12x Microsoft Certified Power Platform Developer and #PowerAddict who gave up living the beach life in Cape Town 🏖 to join the amazing Microsoft Power Platform Community in the UK 🇬🇧.
With a passion for developing enterprise workflow solutions, and engaging with the Power Platform Community, my ultimate goal is to make a difference whilst learning from and helping others. #CommunityRocks

I am a 12x Microsoft Certified Power Platform Developer and #PowerAddict who gave up living the beach life in Cape Town 🏖 to join the amazing Microsoft Power Platform Community in the UK 🇬🇧. With a passion for developing enterprise workflow solut... Show more

Miklos Cari

Miklos Cari

Miklos is an Enterprise Architect for Jala Group and has a Master´s in Systems Information. He has been a Microsoft MVP every year since 2010. He´s a trainer on server technologies with more than 15 years’ experience and holds various international certificates including COA. He has extensive experience using Microsoft Server Technologies, having started out testing products, and is now focused on Cloud Technologies. He has more than 12 years of experience speaking at international conferences like Microsoft Ignite and has participated in international events such as Microsoft Tech-Ed, Microsoft Ignite as TLG and Ask The Experts as well in several Local Events. His main hobby is playing around with new things that are on the market, experimenting with the latest technologies, and then sharing his experiences with people. His goal is to encourage people to learn about the latest technologies and then use them in their companies.

Miklos is an Enterprise Architect for Jala Group and has a Master´s in Systems Information. He has been a Microsoft MVP every year since 2010. He´s a trainer on server technologies with more than 15 years’ experience and holds various international c... Show more

Andrei Khaidarov

Andrei Khaidarov

🎓 Microsoft Data Platform MVP | Cloud Solution Architect - Data & AI | PhD | Speaker | MCT | Associate Professor | Global Power Platform Bootcamp Hero | Global Power Platform Bootcamp Organizer | Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer, Power Platform Solution Architect, Designing and Implementing Enterprise-Scale Analytics Solutions, Power BI Data Analyst, Power Platform Developer, Power Platform App Maker, Azure Fundamentals | Technical reviewer for Packt's Power BI books | Microsoft Learn Moderator | Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub member

🎓 Microsoft Data Platform MVP | Cloud Solution Architect - Data & AI | PhD | Speaker | MCT | Associate Professor | Global Power Platform Bootcamp Hero | Global Power Platform Bootcamp Organizer | Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer, Powe... Show more

Michel Mendes

Michel Mendes

Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Consultant/Developer working with Microsoft technologies since 2008. Worked for 9+ years in Brazil as consultant/developer and moved to Ireland in January 2018, where he is working as Senior Consultant. Delivering solutions with Microsoft 365 applications and extending Microsoft 365 with SPFx, Azure and Power Platform (Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate).

Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Consultant/Developer working with Microsoft technologies since 2008. Worked for 9+ years in Brazil as consultant/developer and moved to Ireland in January 2018, where he is working as Senior Consultant. Delivering solutio... Show more

Carlos Azaustre

Carlos Azaustre

Carlos is Frontend Software Engineer, Associate Professor at Universidad Europea, and Developer Content Creator, from Madrid, Spain.

GDE in Web since 2019. Awarded as Microsoft MVP 2022 & 2023 for Developer Technologies.

He loves sharing knowledge with the Spanish-spoken developer community, mainly online through Twitch and Youtube, and other social networks.

He has worked for over 10+ years in start-ups, cofounded his own one, and for companies such as Google, IBM, and Eventbrite.

Carlos is Frontend Software Engineer, Associate Professor at Universidad Europea, and Developer Content Creator, from Madrid, Spain. GDE in Web since 2019. Awarded as Microsoft MVP 2022 & 2023 for Developer Technologies. He loves sharing knowle... Show more

Almir Vuk

Almir Vuk

Microsoft MVP - .NET Mobile and Web developer - Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer - Microsoft Certified Solution Developer.

A frequent regional and international speaker at Microsoft related events and User Group meetings. In
free time loves to play chess, write blog posts, help the community on StackOverflow and MSDN forums, contribute to open source projects or be an instructor at NGO programming related events.

Completely dedicated to Software Development, mostly on the .NET platform, crafting apps using C# and ASP.NET Core for web and Xamarin tools for mobile development.

Truly in love with programming since childhood days.

Microsoft MVP - .NET Mobile and Web developer - Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer - Microsoft Certified Solution Developer. A frequent regional and international speaker at Microsoft related events and User Group meetings. In free time loves to ... Show more

William Liebenberg

William Liebenberg

William is an Azure & .NET App Innovation Consultant at Arinco with a strong focus on building cloud-native solutions on Azure and enjoys developing great software engineering practices for teams.

He is an active member of the Melbourne developer community where you can find him attending or presenting at user groups, hack days and conferences every time he has a chance!

William is an Azure & .NET App Innovation Consultant at Arinco with a strong focus on building cloud-native solutions on Azure and enjoys developing great software engineering practices for teams. He is an active member of the Melbourne developer ... Show more

Nicolas Robert

Nicolas Robert

Fallen into the Microsoft ecosystem during my first professional experiences (with Windows Mobile at the time - some years ago), I then took the turn of Cloud and AI with my first projects around the Bot Framework. Today, I work mainly on AI subjects on Azure. You will find me from time to time on StackOverflow, and my DMs on twitter or LinkedIn are open to discuss solutions!

Fallen into the Microsoft ecosystem during my first professional experiences (with Windows Mobile at the time - some years ago), I then took the turn of Cloud and AI with my first projects around the Bot Framework. Today, I work mainly on AI subjects... Show more

Thomas Marcussen

Thomas Marcussen

Thomas Marcussen is a Technology Architect, Microsoft MVP & Microsoft Certified Trainer, specializing in infrastructure, systems management, Microsoft Intune/Autopilot/M365, System Center Configuration Manager, and Windows 365.

Thomas Marcussen is a Technology Architect, Microsoft MVP & Microsoft Certified Trainer, specializing in infrastructure, systems management, Microsoft Intune/Autopilot/M365, System Center Configuration Manager, and Windows 365. Show more

Eitan Blumin

Eitan Blumin

Eitan Blumin is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP with decades of experience in all fields relating to Microsoft SQL Server databases and the Microsoft Data Platform.

Eitan Blumin is currently working as a Senior SQL Server Consultant, Solutions Architect, and CTO at Madeira Data Solutions, the leading Microsoft Data Platform consulting company in Israel. Other than his day-to-day consultant work, he also co-hosts the popular "SQL Server Radio" podcast with Guy Glantser, writes professional materials for the SQL Server community, delivers professional presentations and courses, and serves as a pivotal source of expert knowledge for the Madeira team.

Eitan Blumin is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP with decades of experience in all fields relating to Microsoft SQL Server databases and the Microsoft Data Platform. Eitan Blumin is currently working as a Senior SQL Server Consultant, Solutions Archi... Show more

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Microsoft MVPs

Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are recognized experts in their respective technical communities who actively share their knowledge and expertise with others. The MVP award is given to individuals who have made significant contributions to the Microsoft community through their involvement in technical forums, user groups, conferences, and other events. As a result, many MVPs are sought after as speakers at industry events, sharing their knowledge and insights with others.

When an MVP adds their award to their speaker profile, it can serve as a powerful endorsement of their expertise and credibility. Event organizers and attendees alike recognize the MVP award as a symbol of excellence in the field of Microsoft technology, and are more likely to view MVP speakers as authorities on the subject matter they are presenting. This can help MVPs secure speaking engagements, as well as increase their visibility and recognition within the community.

In addition to the benefits for the MVPs themselves, including the ability to network with other experts and gain exposure for their work, the community as a whole can benefit from the contributions of MVP speakers. By sharing their knowledge and insights with others, MVPs help to elevate the level of expertise and understanding within the Microsoft community, ultimately leading to better products and services for everyone.