Nick Cosentino is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft and a .NET content creator. He manages the teams responsible for deploying the hundreds of services supporting the Microsoft365 suite of products to serve users across the planet. Nick brings his unique experiences to the Big Tech world having worked at a startup that scaled from a handful of employees to hundreds before it went public.
Nick runs a software engineering and dotnet-focused blog as well as a YouTube channel called Dev Leader. While he enjoys solving complex problems with software solutions, Nick is passionate about reducing barriers for people to get started on their software engineering journey.
Ryan Murphy is an experienced Engineering Manager at Yelp, content creator, writer and speaker. He currently leads the teams responsible for all the infrastructure behind reliable and safe purchasing. His career has typically seen him either working on trading platforms at large financial institutions or implementing scalable infrastructure behind advertising. Ryan’s goal is to level-up the next generation of software engineering leadership, where there is currently little on offer for training and learning those new skills.