Don Smith

Don Smith is a Senior Program Manager on the patterns & practices team at Microsoft. In his six years with p&p he has produced developer guidance related to web services, Visual Studio extensibility and software factories, agile team practices, application architecture, data access, and most recently client-side web development with HTML5 and JavaScript. In his first six years at Microsoft Don was an Application Development Consultant where he helped internet and enterprise customers build and deploy their solutions and he’s been a staunch customer advocate ever since. Don continues to apply his passions to web development technologies and scenarios including the area of mobile web development. He loves to be contacted by customers so feel free to make a connection on Twitter, his blog or email.

Christopher Bennage

Christopher Bennage is a Software Development Engineer on the patterns & practices team at Microsoft. Since arriving at Microsoft his focus has been on HTML5 and JavaScript. Prior to Microsoft, Christopher was a consultant specializing in client technologiesfor .NET, including WPF, Silverlight, and ASP.NET MVC.

Christopher embraces agile software principles and is an advocate of open source software. You can follow him on Twitter or check out his blog

Pablo Cibraro

Pablo is an internationally recognized expert with over 12 years of experience in designing and implementing large distributed systems with Microsoft technologies, a Connected System MVP and also one of the Agilesight cofounders.

He spent several years of his career working directly with different Microsoft teams on sample applications, tools and frameworks for building service-oriented applications with Web Services and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). He now focuses on technologies that enable developers to build large scale systems and web applications with focus on web mobile, such as HTML5, Node.js, ASP.NET or Windows Azure.

The community knows Pablo mainly for his weblog at http://weblogs.asp.net/cibrax/ and active participation in conferences and forums