Jim Cheshire is a best-selling author, trainer, and industry expert with more than 25 years of experience at Microsoft. Jim has written more than a dozen technology books, including the best-selling Exam Ref AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals from Microsoft Press. He has also created numerous training programs, including the Exam AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals video from Microsoft Press and the AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals Crash Course live online training from Pearson available on the O'Reilly platform. At Microsoft, Jim is currently working as director of supportability in Microsoft's Apps & Infrastructure business unit.
Tiago Costa is a Cloud Architect and Advisor and International speaker for the Microsoft Cloud. For the past years he has been architecting and developing solutions using Microsoft Azure for some of the fortune 500 companies. Due to his strong real-world experience, Tiago regularly teaches Microsoft Azure classes around the world.
Microsoft Azure MVP since 2016 for his community efforts in promoting and sharing knowledge with the community. Tiago has 40+ Microsoft Certifications including MCT – Microsoft Certified Trainer and got awarded as MCT Regional Lead since 2016 every year. He's the founder of the Azure Portugal User Group.
Tim Warner has been a Microsoft MVP in Azure AI and Cloud/Datacenter Management for 6 years and a Microsoft Certified Trainer for more than 25 years. His O'Reilly Live Training classes on generative AI, GitHub, DevOps, data engineering, cloud computing, and Microsoft certification reach hundreds of thousands of students around the world. He's written for Microsoft Press, presented at Microsoft Ignite, and contributed to several Microsoft open-source projects. You can connect with Tim on LinkedIn: timw.info/li.
Markus Reynolds is a senior software engineer at Lexis Nexis Risk with over three years of development experience in .NET and C#. He is a professional F# developer and functional programming advocate. Markus lives in Lenexa, Kansas, with his wife and four-year-old daughter. He loves to read and code.
