Angel Hernandez is a highly regarded senior solutions, architect and developer with over 15 years of experience, mainly in the consulting space. He is an 11-time Microsoft (2006-2016) MVP award recipient in Visual Studio and Development Technologies category (formerly, Visual C++), and he is currently a member of the Microsoft MVP Reconnect Program. Angel is also a TOGAF practitioner. He has deep knowledge of Microsoft and open source technologies (*nix Systems), and he's an expert in managed and native languages, C# and C++ being his favorites.
David V. Corbin began programming during the heyday of the mini-computer era, starting with the DEC PDP-8. His early career was in the defense industry, progressing from the company's first software technician to being the technical lead of the engineering software department, with much of the work being done in C. He cofounded Dynamic Concepts in 1984 to facilitate the introduction of the PC into business environments (this is the same year the original IBM AT was introduced). By the early 1990s, much of his application development had started migrating to C++. Even after 25 years, C++ remains a valued tool in his development arsenal. In 2005, he began to focus on improving the software development and delivery process via the application of ALM principles. Today, he continues as the President and Chief Architect of Dynamic Concepts and works directly with clients, providing guidance in the rapidly changing ecosystem.
Aivars Kalvāns is the lead software architect at Tieto Latvia. He has been working on a Card Suite payment card system for more than 16 years and maintains many of core C++ libraries and programs. He is also responsible for C++ programming guidelines, secure coding training, and code reviews. He organizes and speaks at internal C++ developer meetups.
Arun Muralidharan is a software developer with over 8 years of experience as a systems and full-stack developer. Distributed system design, architecture, event systems, scalability, performance, and programming languages are some of the aspects of a product that interest him the most. He is an ardent fan of C++ and its template metaprogramming; he likes how the language keeps his ego in check. So, one would find him working on C++ most of the time.
Nibedit Dey is a technopreneur with a multidisciplinary technology background. He has a bachelor's in biomedical engineering and a master’s in digital design and embedded systems. Before starting his entrepreneurial journey, he worked for L&T and Tektronix for several years in different R&D roles. He has been using C++ to build complex software-based systems for the last 8 years.