Tugberk Ugurlu is a Web Developer and newly-awarded Microsoft MVP who specializes in software for the tourism industry, where he has worked for the last nine years. He works mostly with ASP.NET and its different frameworks such as ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web API. After studying travel management at college, he was dragged into programming for its application to the industry and has been passionate about ASP.NET and its siblings ever since. While he gets paid by building web application for tourism services and products, he is also a very involved member of the community and likes to share his knowledge with others through his blog (http://tugberkugurlu.com), webcasts, authoring books,… giving talks on various topics and so on. He currently lives in Marmaris, Turkey and is engaged to a lovely girl called Nihan.
Alexander Zeitler is a self-employed Web Developer who has spent 17 years working mainly for the tooling and machining industry as well as plant manufacturing, where he works mainly with ASP.NET MVC and now ASP.NET Web API on the server side and HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript on the client side. He has been rewarded repeatedly with the Microsoft MVP award in ASP.NET for his engagement with the German .NET community and he maintains a blog at http://blog.alexonasp.net, which he has kept since 2003.
After years of study and five years of practising, Ali Kheyrollahi left Medicine for his love of programming. Thirteen years later, he is a solutions architect for a blue chip company, yet at heart he is the same kid in the toy shop enjoying coding and discovering new shiny technologies. Ali loves HTTP, API design and business-modelling DDD-style. In his spare time he is a blogger and open source author and contributor, working on a few popular projects such as CacheCow - an HTTP caching solution for ASP.NET Web API. He also has a passion for computer vision and has published a few papers on the subject in scientific journals, including Machine Vision and Applications. He has a taste… for avant-garde films and music and enjoys watching films with his lovely wife Khatereh.