Microsoft MVPs

Microsoft MVPs

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

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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

Melissa Houghton

Melissa Houghton

Melissa Houghton is a Principal Software Engineer at MakerX, a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies, an international conference speaker, and a technical community event organiser. She is a Women in Tech WA 2023 Tech [+] Award Winner and an Octopus Insider.

She is a driven software engineer and excellent leader with extensive experience in end-to-end application development and delivery. She enjoys solving complex problems and is always open to learning new things, with current work focused on .NET and Azure.

Outside of the tech world, Melissa lives in Australia's South West, raising her twin baby girls. In her free time, she loves to travel and has a boutique wine business with her winemaker husband.

Melissa Houghton is a Principal Software Engineer at MakerX, a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies, an international conference speaker, and a technical community event organiser. She is a Women in Tech WA 2023 Tech [+] Award Winner and an Octopu... Show more

Alberto Diaz Martin

Alberto Diaz Martin

A professional with more than 20years of experience in the IT Industry, all of them working with Microsoft Technologies. His principal activities are Development and Solution Analysts on his first years and as Team Leader and Solution Architect on the last 6 years. Currently Chief Technology Innovation Officer in ENCAMINA, leading Microsoft technology software development and member of the management board.

For the Spanish Community, he works as organizer and speaker in the most important Microsoft technologies conferences which he is one of the most important leaders. Author of several books and articles in professional magazine, from 2013 he began a new career as co-director of CompartiMOSS, a Microsoft technologies magazine.

In 2011 he was named Microsoft MVP and he still retaining recognition for the seventh consecutive year. He defined himself as a geek, smartphones lover and developer. For the community, has founded TenerifeDev (www.tenerifedev.com) with other friends, a technical community in Tenerife, coordinator at SUGES (SharePoint Users Group on Spain, www.suges.es) and at Comunidad Office 365 Spain.

A professional with more than 20years of experience in the IT Industry, all of them working with Microsoft Technologies. His principal activities are Development and Solution Analysts on his first years and as Team Leader and Solution Architect on th... Show more

Magnus Goksöyr

Magnus Goksöyr

More than 25 years of experience in collaboration tools and services. Has worked with Microsoft 365 since the beginning of time and with Modern Work even before it became modern. Specialized on Microsoft Teams in particular and with a peculiar passion for Information Governance, Information Structure, Information Security and context -based collaboration. Enjoy being thrown into a chaos to create order.

More than 25 years of experience in collaboration tools and services. Has worked with Microsoft 365 since the beginning of time and with Modern Work even before it became modern. Specialized on Microsoft Teams in particular and with a peculiar passio... Show more

Viktor Hedberg

Viktor Hedberg

Security consultant with a focus on Microsoft Security either on-prem or in the cloud, and a blueteamer at heart. Viktor has worked within IT for the past 10 years always within Cyber Security. Working for public sector in Sweden for years but now as a specialist at Truesec AB focusing on proactive security measures, DFIR and advises on all things cyber.

Security consultant with a focus on Microsoft Security either on-prem or in the cloud, and a blueteamer at heart. Viktor has worked within IT for the past 10 years always within Cyber Security. Working for public sector in Sweden for years but now as... Show more

James Robinson

James Robinson

With over 20 years of experience in the field, James is a Solution Architect specialising in Modern Workplace, Security, and End User Compute technologies, with a focus on getting environments onto Cloud-Native endpoints.

With over 20 years of experience in the field, James is a Solution Architect specialising in Modern Workplace, Security, and End User Compute technologies, with a focus on getting environments onto Cloud-Native endpoints. 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

Sander Molenkamp

Sander Molenkamp

Sander Molenkamp is a principal cloud architect and Microsoft Azure MVP with over 25 years of professional experience. He works for Info Support (http://www.infosupport.com) designing and developing customer solutions using cloud native architectures.
Sander is also an accomplished speaker, having shared his insights and expertise at numerous international conferences. He is passionate about technology and freely shares his knowledge through the dotnetFlix YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/dotnetflix).
Furthermore, Sander actively contributes to the organization of multiple free community events, including the Dutch Azure Meetup, Azure Fest, and Bitbash.
In his free time, Sander enjoys traveling, is (still) learning to play the ukelele, and tinkers with technology and LEGO. He has also defeated the sword master of Mêlée Island™️.

Sander Molenkamp is a principal cloud architect and Microsoft Azure MVP with over 25 years of professional experience. He works for Info Support (http://www.infosupport.com) designing and developing customer solutions using cloud native architectures... Show more

Andreas Schlüter

Andreas Schlüter

Andreas Schlüter is the Chief Digital Satisfaction and Happiness Officer and a recognized expert in Microsoft 365 and the Power Platform. With extensive experience in process automation and digital transformation, he bridges the gap between technical expertise and user needs. As a trainer, consultant, and speaker, Andreas delivers creative, practical solutions and an in-depth understanding of modern cloud technologies. His focus lies in the successful adoption and use of Microsoft 365, whether through migrations, rollouts, or process automation.

Andreas is known for making complex technical topics accessible, engaging, and inspiring. His goal is to create “Magic Moments” that provide users with real insights and tangible benefits. He shares not only best practices but also highlights pitfalls to avoid – always with a sense of humor and a clear vision for what is possible.

As a Microsoft MVP and MCT, Andreas brings cutting-edge knowledge and exclusive insights directly from the Microsoft community to his sessions. With him, you can expect an informative, interactive, and entertaining experience, where you’ll not only learn but also leave with actionable ideas. Be inspired and discover how IT processes can be designed to be both efficient and impactful - and in cool!

Andreas Schlüter is the Chief Digital Satisfaction and Happiness Officer and a recognized expert in Microsoft 365 and the Power Platform. With extensive experience in process automation and digital transformation, he bridges the gap between technical... Show more

Mikael Nystrom

Mikael Nystrom

Mikael Nystrom is a Microsoft MVP and Principal Technical Architect at Truesec, with an extremely broad field of competence. He has worked with all kinds of infrastructure tasks, in all kinds of environments, enterprise to small business. He is currently working in the CSIRT where he is Rebuilding, Recovering, Deploying, Configuring and Restoring organizations hit by cyberattacks or other incidents. Mikael is a very popular instructor and speaker at major conferences such as Security Summit and MMS

Mikael Nystrom is a Microsoft MVP and Principal Technical Architect at Truesec, with an extremely broad field of competence. He has worked with all kinds of infrastructure tasks, in all kinds of environments, enterprise to small business. He is curre... Show more

René Wasel

René Wasel

René has been working in IT since 2002. His technical focus is on Microsoft 365, with the aim of simplifying colleagues' work and creating added value when using the solutions.

He is also the host of the YouTube channel "Daniel and René - M365 in everyday life" and co-organizer of the Azure Meetup Bonn and the hybrid Cloud Identity Summit. You can often meet him at community events and conferences, where he is also happy to share his knowledge. You can find his blog at wasel365.de.

René has been working in IT since 2002. His technical focus is on Microsoft 365, with the aim of simplifying colleagues' work and creating added value when using the solutions. He is also the host of the YouTube channel "Daniel and René - M365 in ... Show more

Yolanda Cuesta Altieri

Yolanda Cuesta Altieri

Economist Excel expert
Microsoft MVP since 2014 to 2024 Excel y 2023 Data Platform
Linkedin Learning Instructor

Economist Excel expert Microsoft MVP since 2014 to 2024 Excel y 2023 Data Platform Linkedin Learning Instructor 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

Adnan Amin

Adnan Amin

Profile Highlights:
Adnan, a distinguished Microsoft MVP since 2015, possesses over 18 years of expertise in Microsoft technologies including SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, the .Net Platform, and Microsoft BI. Currently working as a Senior Microsoft Consultant at Olive + Goose, he brings 14 years of experience in SharePoint and successfully managing diverse global projects for both private and government sectors, including interactions with Fortune 500 companies.

In addition to his professional roles, Adnan is a devoted educator, sharing insights and knowledge as a trainer. He actively advocates for technology, engaging with the community through speaking engagements in various forums. His multifaceted contributions reflect his dedication to the tech field and his pivotal role in driving its evolution.

Profile Highlights: Adnan, a distinguished Microsoft MVP since 2015, possesses over 18 years of expertise in Microsoft technologies including SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, the .Net Platform, and Microsoft BI. Currently working as a Sen... Show more

Christian Weyer

Christian Weyer

Christian Weyer is co-founder and CTO of Thinktecture AG. As a Microsoft MVP, Google GDE, and Microsoft RD, he is an engaged and passionate speaker at various software conferences and events worldwide. For more than 25 years, his heart has always been with the latest technologies and how to apply them reasonably to ISV and enterprise solutions.

Christian Weyer is co-founder and CTO of Thinktecture AG. As a Microsoft MVP, Google GDE, and Microsoft RD, he is an engaged and passionate speaker at various software conferences and events worldwide. For more than 25 years, his heart has always bee... Show more

Fons Sonnemans

Fons Sonnemans

With 10 years of recognition as a Microsoft MVP in Windows Development and 1 year in .NET, I am an established expert in the tech community. I am also the creator of several successful Windows apps proudly featured in the Microsoft Store. As a trainer and consultant, I deliver engaging and practical sessions on C#, .NET, app development and performance, sharing my in-depth knowledge and experience to inspire and empower others. My talks focus on delivering valuable insights, innovative solutions, and best practices, always tailored to meet the needs of the audience.

With 10 years of recognition as a Microsoft MVP in Windows Development and 1 year in .NET, I am an established expert in the tech community. I am also the creator of several successful Windows apps proudly featured in the Microsoft Store. As a traine... Show more

Fabian Gosebrink

Fabian Gosebrink

Fabian Gosebrink is Microsoft MVP, Google Developer Expert, Pluralsight author, Angular & ASP.NET Core web developer and international speaker. As a software engineer, consultant and trainer, he supports customers building web applications with more than 10 years of experience. Fabian is very active in the community such as leading the swiss angular community „SwissAngular“, the .NET user group in Zurich, leading the largest german speaking C#-Community (mycsharp.de), being an egghead and Pluralsight trainer as well as running his own company Offering Solutions Software with a course and learning platform https://developer-academy.ch and is speaking at local user groups and international conferences.

Fabian Gosebrink is Microsoft MVP, Google Developer Expert, Pluralsight author, Angular & ASP.NET Core web developer and international speaker. As a software engineer, consultant and trainer, he supports customers building web applications with more ... Show more

Denis Selimovic

Denis Selimovic

I am an enthusiastic Power BI user, Speaker, Power BI Super User, co-organizer of the Fabric User Group Switzerland and Microsoft MVP.

I work as Principal Consultant, trainer and mentor in the area of Business Intelligence in Switzerland.
I have been lucky enough to work with Power BI since its release in 2015 and gain experience in many interesting projects since the beginning. In my blog WhatTheFact.bi I write about everything related to Power BI, best practices, share tips and look forward to exchange with you!

I am an enthusiastic Power BI user, Speaker, Power BI Super User, co-organizer of the Fabric User Group Switzerland and Microsoft MVP. I work as Principal Consultant, trainer and mentor in the area of Business Intelligence in Switzerland. I have... Show more

Martin Ehrnst

Martin Ehrnst

I am a Microsoft Azure MVP, working as a lead technical architect at Simplifai
For almost two decades I have worked with infrastructure management, automation, and monitoring. As this traditional role is changing fast, I am focusing my community contributions around modern IT-pro role.

By the way, I have a love/hate relationship with Kubernetes. 🐳

I am a Microsoft Azure MVP, working as a lead technical architect at Simplifai For almost two decades I have worked with infrastructure management, automation, and monitoring. As this traditional role is changing fast, I am focusing my community con... Show more

Troy Taylor

Troy Taylor

Troy is a Power Platform consultant with Hitachi Solutions America, focusing on connectors, Power Automate and Copilot Studio. Since 2022, he is a Microsoft Business Applications MVP. He is also a project coordinator for the Independent Publisher Connector program and has published over 200 open-source Power Platform connectors.

Troy is a Power Platform consultant with Hitachi Solutions America, focusing on connectors, Power Automate and Copilot Studio. Since 2022, he is a Microsoft Business Applications MVP. He is also a project coordinator for the Independent Publisher Con... Show more

Marvin Bangert

Marvin Bangert

Marvin Bangert works as a Cloud Architect at glueckkanja AG in Germany, is the organizer of the Power Platform User Group Cologne, speaker, blogger and Power Platform Community Contributor. Started many years ago with SharePoint Server On-Premises, for more than 7 years he has mainly been dealing with cloud topics related to Power Platform and Microsoft 365, in particular Modern Collaboration. With his broad expert knowledge of the various Microsoft products, he advises and accompanies customers in the introduction of a modern workplace.

Marvin Bangert works as a Cloud Architect at glueckkanja AG in Germany, is the organizer of the Power Platform User Group Cologne, speaker, blogger and Power Platform Community Contributor. Started many years ago with SharePoint Server On-Premises, f... Show more

Rob Bos

Rob Bos

Rob has a strong focus on ALM and DevOps, automating manual tasks and helping teams deliver value to the end-user faster, using DevOps techniques. This is applied on anything Rob comes across, whether it’s an application, infrastructure, serverless or training environments. Additionally, Rob focuses on the management of production environments, including dashboarding, usage statistics for product owners and stakeholders, but also as part of the feedback loop to the developers. A lot of focus goes to GitHub and GitHub Actions, improving the security of applications and DevOps pipelines.

Rob is a Trainer (Azure + GitHub), Microsoft MVP, GitHub Star and LinkedIn Learning Instructor.

Rob has a strong focus on ALM and DevOps, automating manual tasks and helping teams deliver value to the end-user faster, using DevOps techniques. This is applied on anything Rob comes across, whether it’s an application, infrastructure, serverless o... Show more

Artem Chernevskiy

Artem Chernevskiy

Microsoft Most Valuable (MVP) professional with more than 20 years of experience in IT. Including a PTS Group Manager position for Microsoft, owning IT startups, and managing over 50 large IT projects for international companies.

Microsoft Most Valuable (MVP) professional with more than 20 years of experience in IT. Including a PTS Group Manager position for Microsoft, owning IT startups, and managing over 50 large IT projects for international companies. Show more

Irina Dominte(Scurtu)

Irina Dominte(Scurtu)

Software Architect @Particular Software, Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies, Microsoft Certified Trainer, always in a quest for the latest trends and best practices in architecture, .NET, and the world around it.

Irina has more than 1000 hours of delivered training, workshops, and presentations, is passionate about .NET and the world around it.

She is the founder of DotNet Iasi User Group where she tries to gather people who are willing to share their knowledge with others, and from time to time publishes articles on her blog: http://irina.codes

Software Architect @Particular Software, Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies, Microsoft Certified Trainer, always in a quest for the latest trends and best practices in architecture, .NET, and the world around it. Irina has more than 1000 hou... 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

Anna-Maria Wykes

Anna-Maria Wykes

Anna is a veteran software and data engineer as well as a Microsoft Data Platform and AI MVP, boasting over 18 years of experience. She has undertaken various projects, including real-time analytics with Scala and Kafka, constructing Data Lakes with Spark, and applying engineering to Data Science. Anna currently serves as a RSA (Resident Solution Architect) and consultant, contributing to the development of Databricks and Neueda's data engineering and AI practice. With a genuine passion for data, she endeavors to bridge the gap between Software Development and Data Science. Anna's other areas of interest include DevOps (DataOps, MLOps, LLMOps), Agile methodologies, and organizing or participating in local Code Clubs.

Anna is a veteran software and data engineer as well as a Microsoft Data Platform and AI MVP, boasting over 18 years of experience. She has undertaken various projects, including real-time analytics with Scala and Kafka, constructing Data Lakes with ... Show more

Thorsten Hans

Thorsten Hans

Thorsten is Sr. Cloud Advocate at Fermyon Technologies. He helps developers and teams with adopting, applying, and mastering emerging technologies to build reliable and robust software for the next wave of cloud computing. He resists as a well-known blogger and speaker at international tech conferences focussing on WebAssembly, Cloud-Native, and distributed architectures.

Thorsten is Sr. Cloud Advocate at Fermyon Technologies. He helps developers and teams with adopting, applying, and mastering emerging technologies to build reliable and robust software for the next wave of cloud computing. He resists as a well-known ... Show more

Gregor Biswanger

Gregor Biswanger

Gregor Biswanger is a leading expert in generative AI, a Microsoft MVP for Azure AI and Web App Development. He collaborates closely with the Microsoft product team for GitHub Copilot, helping companies implement modern AI solutions. As a consultant, trainer, and author, he shares his expertise in software architecture and cloud technologies and is a sought-after speaker at international conferences. For several years, he has streamed live every Friday evening on Twitch with "My Coding Zone" and is an active YouTuber.

Contact Gregor if you need support in the form of consulting, training, or assistance in implementing AI solutions with .NET or Node.js.

Gregor Biswanger is a leading expert in generative AI, a Microsoft MVP for Azure AI and Web App Development. He collaborates closely with the Microsoft product team for GitHub Copilot, helping companies implement modern AI solutions. As a consultant,... Show more

Edwin van Wijk

Edwin van Wijk

I have been working in IT since 1999 and I'm currently working as Principal Solution Architect, managing consultant and Microsoft Community Lead at Info Support in The Netherlands. I'm a Microsoft MVP in the Developer Technologies and Microsoft Azure categories (since 2016). My primary areas of expertise are: building distributed systems, systems integration, (cloud-native) software architecture and patterns, software craftsmanship, .NET (Core) development, Azure and DevOps. I love sharing my experience and knowledge about these subjects by training people, publishing videos (www.youtube.com/dotnetflix) and speaking at conferences.

I have been working in IT since 1999 and I'm currently working as Principal Solution Architect, managing consultant and Microsoft Community Lead at Info Support in The Netherlands. I'm a Microsoft MVP in the Developer Technologies and Microsoft Azure... Show more

Beatriz Oliveira

Beatriz Oliveira

Beatriz Oliveira é Cloud Engineer na Vivo e sua formação técnica e acadêmica é dedicada à Infraestrutura de TI e Arquitetura de Soluções. Além disso, é Cofundadora da Comunidade SysAdminas, um grupo que fortalece a presença feminina na área de TI, promovendo capacitação técnica e empregabilidade.
Por seu trabalho em comunidades, ela tem sido reconhecida por organizações de tecnologia através de diversos programas e prêmios, como AWS Community Builder, Google's Women TechMakers Ambassador, VMware vExpert e Microsoft MVP.

Beatriz Oliveira é Cloud Engineer na Vivo e sua formação técnica e acadêmica é dedicada à Infraestrutura de TI e Arquitetura de Soluções. Além disso, é Cofundadora da Comunidade SysAdminas, um grupo que fortalece a presença feminina na área de TI, pr... 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.