Gabriel Baptista is a software architect who technically leads a team in the most diverse projects for retail and industry, using a dozen varieties of Microsoft products. He has become a specialist in Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions since designing a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform in partnership with Microsoft. Besides all that, he is also a college computing professor who has published many papers and teaches different subjects related to software engineering, development, and architecture. He is also a speaker on Channel 9, one of the most prestigious and active community websites for the .NET stack. As well as that, he is a cofounder of a start-up for developing mobile applications, where Scrum, design thinking, and DevOps philosophy are the keys to delivering user needs.
Francesco Abbruzzese is the author of the book MVC Controls Toolkit. He has also contributed to the diffusion and evangelization of the Microsoft web stack since the first version of ASP.NET MVC through tutorials, articles, and tools. He writes about .NET and client-side technologies on his blog, Dot Net Programming, and in various online magazines. His company, Mvcct Team, implements and offers web applications, AI software, SAS products, tools, and services for web technologies associated with the Microsoft stack. He has moved from AI systems, where he implemented one of the first decision support systems for banks and financial institutions, to the video games arena, with top-10 titles such as Puma Street Soccer.