Developers Road: Developer Careers, Visibility, and Getting Known

About Chris Woodruff

Chris Woodruff AKA Woody is the Team Leader for Developer Relations at Quicken Loans, the nation’s largest mortgage lender, which is based in Detroit, Michigan. Woody has over 25 years of experience when he started his career before the first .COM boom. He has spoken at many events across the globe, covering software development and architecture topics such as database development, APIs, and web development. He is a proven mentor that enjoys helping, educating, and supporting other developers to gain knowledge through his speaking, writing, and online content. When not working or spending time with his family, you can find Woody traveling down the Bourbon Trail finding new bottles to share with friends.

Twitter: @cwoodruff

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chriswoodruff/

About Billy Hollis

Billy Hollis is a UX generalist, developer, software architect, author, and long-time speaker at major tech conferences. He leads a team of world-class multi-platform developers at Next Version Systems, where the team creates and implements trailblazing UX designs for companies from Fortune 100 down to medium-sized technology companies. 

Billy has been recognized by Microsoft both in their prestigious, business-oriented Regional Director program, and was a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) awardee for fifteen years. He has also done video courses for Pluralsight and LinkedIn Learning. 

Website: http://nextver.com

Twitter: @billyhollis

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billy-hollis-next-version

Email: [email protected]

About Beth Massi

I'm the Product Marketing Manager for .NET at Microsoft and on the Board of Directors of the .NET Foundation. I'm a long-time .NET community champion and have been in the software industry for over 20 years. 

Twitter: @BethMassi

Email: [email protected]

About Rob Tiffany

Rob Tiffany is Vice President and Head of IoT Strategy at Ericsson where he drives strategy and execution at the intersection of 5G, Edge computing and the Internet of Things. 

He joined Ericsson in 2018 from Enterprise IoT, where was he was Founder and CEO. There he created an Edge computing system powered by Digital Twins that targeted enterprises and industrials. As CTO and Global Product Manager at Hitachi, he received the Presidential “Product of the Year” award for designing the Lumada Industrial IoT platform that landed in Gartner’s “Visionary Quadrant.” Spending most of his career at Microsoft, Rob was the Global Technology Lead for IoT where he incubated the Azure IoT cloud platform and co-authored its reference architecture. Prior to Microsoft, Rob was the Co-Founder of NetPerceptor where he developed one of the industry’s earliest Mobile Device Management (MDM/EMM) platforms for smartphones. 

A bestselling author and frequent keynote speaker, Rob serves on the boards of SmartCitiesWorld, the Washington State IoT Council, Kapios Health, and Elevate our Kids. He’s the Executive Director of the Moab Foundation focused on global sustainability and is routinely ranked as one of the top IoT experts and influencers in the world by Inc Magazine, Onalytica and others. 

Website: https://robtiffany.com/

Twitter: @robtiffany

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robtiffany/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robtiffany

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rob.tiffany.wine/

About Phil Japikse

An international speaker, Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, MCSD, PSM II, PSD, and PST, and a passionate member of the developer community, Phil Japikse has been working with .NET since the first betas, developing software for over 35 years, and heavily involved in the agile community since 2005 as well as a Professional Scrum Trainer. Phil is co-author of best selling books "Pro C# 7" and "Pro C# 8" (http://www.skimedic.com/blog/page/Books-and-Courses), the Lead Director for the Cincinnati .NET User’s Group (http://www.cinnug.org) and the Cincinnati Software Architect Group, co-hosted the Hallway Conversations podcast (http://www.hallwayconversations.com), founded the CincyDeliver conference (https://www.cinydeliver.org), and volunteers for the National Ski Patrol. During the day, Phil works as the CTO for Pintas & Mullins. Phil always enjoys to learn new tech and is always striving to improve his craft. 

Website: http://www.skimedic.com 

Twitter: @skimedic

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skimedic/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skimedic

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