Phil Haack is a Senior Program Manager with the ASP.NET team currently focused on the ASP.NET MVC Framework.

Scott Hanselman works for Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager in the Developer Division, aiming to spread the good word about developing software, most often on the Microsoft stack.

Mike Cohn is the author of User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development and Agile Estimating and Planning, as well as books on Java and C++ programming.

Michael Feathers is a senior member of Object Mentor team. He provides training, coaching and mentoring services in Agile⁄XP programming practices, test–driven development, refactoring, object–oriented design, Java, C#, and C++.

Craig Larman is the author of Scaling Lean & Agile Development and Agile and Iterative Development. He works as a management consultant in organizational redesign for very large–scale, multisite or offshore product development.

Robert C. Martin has been a software professional since 1970. In the last 35 years, he has worked in various capacities on literally hundreds of software projects.

Roy Osherove has been in the software industry for over a decade, working on projects small and large in companies in Israel and Europe.

Mary Poppendieck started her career as a process control programmer, moved on to manage the IT department of a manufacturing plant, and then ended up in product development, where she was both product manager and department manager.

Kevlin Henney is an independent consultant and trainer, based in the UK but consulting and training throughout Europe and further afield. The focus of his work is in programming languages, OO, patterns, software architecture and development process.

Juval Löwy is a software architect and the principal of IDesign (www.idesign.net), specializing in .NET 3.0 architecture consulting and advanced .NET 3.0 training. Juval is Microsoft’s Regional Director for Silicon Valley, working with Microsoft on helping the industry adopt .NET 3.0.

Ted Neward is a Principal Consultant with ThoughtWorks, an international consulting firm specializsing in project delivery on time, under budget, and feature–complete.

Luca Bolognese is Principal Group Program Manager for the Languages Team in Microsoft. He is responsible for C#, VB and F# languages, compilers and IDEs. Before the current gig, he was responsible for the LINQ project.        

In his role as Strategic Consultant at Project Botticelli Ltd, Rafal Lukawiecki is responsible for analyzing and forecasting trends in the field of Information Technology.

Michele Leroux Bustamante is not only an IDesign Chief Architect, she is also Microsoft Regional Director for San Diego, Microsoft MVP for Connected Systems and a BEA Technical Director.

Sahil Malik is a Microsoft MVP (Currently in SharePoint server competency, previously C#), INETA Speaker, a .NET author, consultant and trainer and a well–rounded overweight geek.

Rockford Lhotka is the creator of the popular CSLA .NET development framework, and is the author of numerous books, including Expert C# 2008 Business Objects and Expert VB 2008 Business Objects.

Ayende Rahien, or Oren Eini which is his real name, is an independent consultant based in Israel. His main focus is on architecture and best practices that promote quality software and zero–friction development.

Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun.

Udi Dahan is The Software Simplist, recognized by Microsoft Corporation with the coveted Most Valuable Professional award for Solutions Architecture now 4 years running.

Tim Huckaby is currently focused on RIA & Smart Client Technologies like WPF, VSTO, Surface, and Silverlight.  He has been called a “Pioneer of the Smart Client Revolution” by the press. 

Jonas is a senior consultant at Capgemini in Trondheim. He has broad experience and in–depth knowledge of the .NET Framework, ASP.NET, WPF, Silverlight and the C# programming language.

Ian Griffiths is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on the presentation layer curriculum. Ian is also an independent consultant, developer, speaker, and author.

Jimmy Nilsson is co–founder and CEO of factor10. He has written two books (Applying Domain–Driven Design and Patterns [ADDDP] and .NET Enterprise Design [NED]).

Scott Bellware is a software product designer, developer, manager, and agile coach living in Austin, Texas. He is a five–time recipient of Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional award and the founder of the AgileATX community of agile software practitioners in Austin.

Peter Provost is a Program Manager for Visual Studio Team System Architecture Edition where he focuses on code–centric modeling and product extensibility.

Glenn is a PM for the new Managed Extensibility Framework in .NET 4.0. Previously he was a Product Planner for the patterns & practices client stack including the Composite Application Guidance (Prism).

Stephen is a Technical Consulting Engineer at Intel, and has worked in the Intel Compiler Lab for the last 10 years. He is a regular speaker at technical conferences in Europe and the US.     

Richard Campbell is a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP and co–host of .NET Rocks!, the Internet Audio Talkshow for .NET Developers as well as host of RunAs Radio, the podcast for Microsoft IT Professionals.

Carl Franklin is the host of .NET Rocks!, dnrTV and also produces Hanselminutes and RunAs Radio.