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Gert Drapers

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:59:46 GMT

Gert Drapers is the Principal Group Program Manager of the Data Platform team in the Database Systems Group at Microsoft, Gert is responsible for the data-tier application strategy and delivery, including client & server level programmability and developer tooling. Since joining Microsoft in 1991, Gert has worked in many different engineering roles and on many different projects directly or indirectly related to data platform and SQL Server. His most prominent contributions are: SQL Query Analyzer, SQL Agent, SMO, DTS, System.Transactions, MS-DTC and XPSMTP. In July of 2005 Gert started the “DataDude” project which led to the creating of Visual Studio Team System Database Edition; from there on it is all history…

Karandeep Anand

Mon, 02 May 2011 21:30:00 GMT

In the last 10 years that Karandeep Anand has been at Microsoft, he has worked across a wide variety of products and services ranging from Windows Client, Windows Server, System Center, and Windows Azure. In his role as the Group Program Manager for Windows Azure Management & UX Platform, Karan is responsible for the end to end management story for Microsoft’s cloud computing platform. His team defines and delivers the over experience for Windows Azure, right from discovering Windows Azure to signing-up, billing, building and managing apps at cloud scale. In his most recent role, he was responsible for the transformation of the Windows Azure UX to being modern, open and flexible and is now focused on building the ecosystem story for Windows Azure platform. He spends a lot of time with customers and partners, presenting at conferences, to encourage a constant feedback loop between Microsoft’s customers and product teams.

Mark Russinovich

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:54:30 GMT

Mark Russinovich is a Technical Fellow in the Windows Azure Group at Microsoft working on Microsoft’s cloud platform. He is a widely recognized expert in operating systems and distributed systems. Russinovich is the author of two cyberthrillers, Zero Day and Trojan Horse, co-author of the Microsoft Press Windows Internals books, and co-author of the Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference. He joined Microsoft in 2006 when Microsoft acquired Winternals Software, the company he cofounded in 1996, as well as Sysinternals, where still he authors and publishes dozens of popular Windows administration and diagnostic utilities. He is a featured speaker at major industry conferences, including Microsoft TechEd, WinHEC, and BUILD.

Nir Mashkowski

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:20:28 GMT

Scott Guthrie

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:56:13 GMT

Scott Guthrie is a Corporate Vice President in Microsoft's Server and Tools Business division, where he is responsible for delivering the development platform for Windows Azure, as well as the .NET Framework and Visual Studio technologies used in building Web and server applications. A founding member of the .NET project, Guthrie has played a key role in the Microsoft developer space since 1998. Today, Guthrie manages the development teams that build the developer platform for Windows Azure, Windows AppFabric Server, BizTalk Server, IIS, ASP.NET, WCF, WF and the Web, and Web Service and Workflow features of Visual Studio. Guthrie graduated with a degree in computer science from Duke University.