Jason is a software engineer passionate about distributed computing, cloud-based technology, and fault-tolerant systems. He is a full stack developer at Concur, and formerly a Technical Evangelist and Program Manager at Microsoft. Outside of work, he is a father of two and loving husband.
Austin is a founding director of Sixty North, a software consulting,
training, and application development company. He's a native of Texas
but currently lives in Norway where he writes software, runs a local
software interest group, and presents and teaches whenever he can.
Robert Smallshire is a founding director of Sixty North, a software product and consulting business in based in Norway. He has held several senior software architecture and technical management roles, and he is a regular conference speaker. Python is his weapon of choice.
Tom is a staff author at Pluralsight helping to develop Hands-On content. Tom's background in software development, UI/UX, and instructional design was developed over the years while working as a faculty member at the School of Computing at Weber State University in Utah, and continues to grow as he develops Projects and Labs for Pluralsight. When he's not creating content to allow learners to gain real-life experience, he enjoys spending time with his family.
Sarah just finished her PhD in Computer Science and in that process found two loves: inventing things and teaching. Working at Pluralsight allows her to do what she loves and work with some amazing people.
Hugo E. Valle is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Weber State University. His research interests are in the fields of Internet of Things (IoT), Data Visualization, Software Development for particle detectors, sensors, microelectronics, and embedded systems, as well as computational science. On his free time he enjoys spending time with his family biking and skiing. He also loves to play board games and watch sports.
Nicolae has been a Software Engineer since 2013, focusing on Java and web stacks. Nicolae holds a degree in Computer Science and enjoys teaching, traveling and motorsports.
Matt Harrison runs MetaSnake, a Python and Data Science consultancy and corporate training shop. He is the author of best selling Python books.
He blogs at ``hairysun.com`` and occasionally tweets useful Python
related information at ``@__mharrison__``
Although Jon spent the first few years of his professional life as an attorney, he quickly
found chasing bits more interesting than chasing ambulances. Since 2011, Jon has been concentrating on the mobile world. Working mainly in iOS, Jon
has helped numerous companies create and transform mobile teams into teams that can
create, build, test, and deploy mobile applications with ease.
Axel Sirota has a Masters degree in Mathematics with a deep interest in Deep Learning and Machine Learning Operations. After researching in Probability, Statistics and Machine Learning optimization, he is currently working at JAMPP as a Machine Learning Research Engineer leveraging customer data for making accurate predictions at Real Time Bidding.
Emily is an experienced software developer specializing in Test Driven Development, agile methods, and automated testing in general. She is a well known speaker, coding dojo facilitator, blogger, and author of "The Coding Dojo Handbook".
After years of working in software development, Reindert-Jan Ekker switched to teaching programmers in 2010 and never looked back. He authors Pluralsight courses and teaches classes about Python, data science, devops (among others). Even though he squeezes some development jobs in here and there, teaching is his real passion and he is looking forward to share this passion with you.