Marco Cantu is the author of the best-selling Mastering Delphi series and in the recent years he has self-published books on the latest versions of Delphi, including his Delphi 2010 handbook. Beside training and consulting on Delphi, Marco is available for consulting on Web architectures and the integration of Delphi projects.You can read Marco's blog at http://blog.marcocantu.com , follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/marcocantu, and contact him on
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Mat DeLong is a Senior Software Developer on the Delphi team at Embarcadero Technologies. He has been with Embarcadero since 2005, having worked out of both the Toronto and Romania offices. Before joining the RAD Studio team in 2009 he worked mainly on tools for managing databases. Now he is working on database features of RAD Studio, with a special interest in improving DataSnap's REST support.
Wecsley Fey is an IT professional with over 10 years of experience in several companies in the nationally and internationally industry. Today, he works at Aquasoft Information Technology in Porto Alegre / RS / Brazil, where he works as a systems analyst, Embarcadero Trainer, consultant and software developer. Wecsley Is currently allocated in Sabemi Group S/A, working as a systems analyst and business. He is a columnist in the ActiveDelphi Magazine and sub-coordinator of the Delphi User Group (DUG-RS) of Rio Grande do Sul / Brazil. Wecsley is a pioneer in developing software for brazilian electronic invoices with Delphi, which provides several industry conferences and consultancies. His CodeRage session was first presented at the Delphi Conference Brazil 2009 in Sao Paulo/Brazil, where he focused his talk on digital signature procedures. Wecsley participated in the project of Canada World Youth in 2006 as a representative of FACCAT Information Systems Course in Quebec-Canada. He was part of the team in the Olympics FACCAT World Programming in the years 2007 (UFRGS) and 2008 (FTEC). Among the methodologies and best practices, Wecsley has experience in management of PMI and Scrum projects, service management with ITIL and best practices\development with XP.
Luke Freiler is the CEO of Centercode, a leading provider of Beta Test Management software and services. Luke has spent the last 9 years helping companies like Adobe, Apple, TiVo, Symantec, EMC, Logitech, and many more improve their products by getting the most out of their customer feedback and beta programs. Prior to his role as CEO, Luke served as Centercode's CTO for 7 years, leading the design and development of the Connect Beta Test Management platform. Prior to founding Centercode, Luke led web application development teams at Ericsson, Micron, and AST Computer, focusing on building highly approachable and functional applications. Luke currently splits his free time between geeking out with the latest upcoming gadgets (perk of the job), spending time with his (very understanding) wife Betsy, and entertaining his beautiful little girl, Zoe.
Thom Gerdes is an R&D Engineer at Embarcadero Technologies. For the past several years he has worked on Delphi and C++Builder. He currently works on the VCL and RTL.
Sebastian P.R. Gingter is a developer evangelist at RemObjects Software, and an international trainer, coach and consultant on .NET and Delphi development. Combining RemObjects products with his enthusiasm for new technologies, he helps developers make their software development more efficient, more fun and tear down the walls between different development platforms. You can contact him at
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Paweł Głowacki is Embarcadero's European Technical Lead for Delphi, RAD Studio and All-Access technologies. Previously, Paweł spent over 7 years working as a senior consultant and trainer for Delphi within Borland Education Services and CodeGear. As well as working with Embarcadero customers across the region, he also represents Embarcadero internationally as a conference and seminar speaker. For more information check out Paweł's technical blog at http://blogs.embarcadero.com/pawelglowacki
Dennis Gurock is the director and co-founder of Gurock Software, a company specialized in tools for software development teams and quality assurance departments. Dennis is also one of the admins behind DelphiFeeds.com and can be found on Twitter as @dgurock.
David Intersimone is Vice President of Developer Relations and Chief Evangelist for Embarcadero. David (known to many as David I.) is a passionate and innovative software industry veteran-often referred to as a developer icon-who extols and educates the world on Embarcadero developer and database tools and runs the company’s rampant online community. He shares his visions as an active member of the industry speaking circuit and is tapped as an expert source by the media. He is a long-standing champion of architects, developers and database professionals and works to ensure that their needs are folded into Embarcadero's strategic product plans. Before Embarcadero, David spent more than 20 years with Borland in various evangelism, engineering, and development capacities, including creating the company's developer relations program. He previously served as Director of Product Services for Softsel Computer Products Inc. (now Merisel). David holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, California.
Cary Jensen is one of the world's leading authorities on ClientDataSets, is the best selling author of more than 20 books on software development, and winner of the 2002 and 2003 Delphi Informant Reader's Choice Award for Best Training. A frequent speaker at conferences, workshops, and seminars throughout much of the world, he is widely regarded for his self-effacing humor and practical approaches to complex issues. Cary has a Ph.D. from Rice University in Human Factors Psychology, specializing in human-computer interaction.
Erik Jones is a developer at Scooter Software. Since 2002 he has developed many of the features of Beyond Compare, including the data compare, localization support, and much of the text compare and merge. Erik hold's a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
John Kaster is the Embarcadero Developer Network (EDN) Program Manager, much of which is built with and maintained by Embarcadero tools. John has been building and managing EDN since 1998, when, as the Product Manager for distributed computing at Borland, he launched CodeCentral as a showcase for the technology that has evolved into DataSnap. John moved from product management into Developer Relations, where he has worked for over a decade as an evangelist for Delphi and other development tools now built by Embarcadero, speaking at hundreds of venues around the world. John has also independently produced a few award-winning software products and written three programming books (including two on Delphi) and written many articles for various publications. John holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point.
Ray Konopka founded Raize Software in 1995. Today, he serves as Raize Software’s President as well as Chief Architect for the company’s CodeSite and Raize Components products. Ray is also the author of the highly acclaimed Developing Custom Delphi Components books and has published numerous magazine articles on software development. Ray specializes in user interface design and custom component development. An engaging presenter, Ray is a frequent speaker at developer conferences.
Andreano Lanusse is an expert and enthusiastic on software development industry, at Embarcadero he is focused on helping to make sure the products being developed meet the expectations of Embarcadero's customers, as well as defining market strategies for Latin America. Today as Latin Lead Evangelist he spends great deal of time in developer conferences, tradeshows, user group, and visiting customers throughout Latin America. Before Embarcadero, he worked 13 years for Borland, Andreano has worked as Support Coordinator, Engineer, Product Manager, including Product Line Sales Manager, where was responsible to manage the relationship with Brazil developer community, also has worked as Principal Consultant for Borland Consulting Services on the development and management of critical applications. He previously served as Chief Architect for USS Soluções Gerenciadas (now USS Tempo). Andreano holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration Marketing Emphasis from Sumare Institute, MBA in Project Management from FGV, certification in Microsoft products, all Borland ALM products, and all CodeGear product line. His blog is online at http://blogs.embarcadero.com/andreanolanusse.
José León founded qadram software S.L. in 2003, a company focused on custom software development and specialized in open source customizations. In 2007, qadram software S.L. partnered with CodeGear to jointly develop and market Delphi for PHP, based on an existing product called qstudio. Today, he alternates the role of CEO with the role of Chief Architect for RadPHP XE, formerly known as Delphi for PHP.
Vsevolod Leonov is a programmer for the last 15 years. He started his IT carrier 15 years ago as a C++/Pascal trainer at Moscow Bauman State Technical University, Russia (www.bmstu.ru). He also worked as a Delphi/C++Builder trainer at one of the largest Russian Education Centers named “Specialist” (www.specialist.ru). In parallel, he developed some scientific software with Delphi/C++Builder in gas dynamics. A year ago, Vsevolod joined Embarcadero as a sales engineer & evangelist, Russia & CIS. His particular interest is new capabilities in Delphi/C++Builder providing better performance of the UI.
Robert Love is a development team lead at the State of Utah's Department of Technology Services. He has been working with Delphi since it was first released, and many years of Turbo Pascal before that. He has developed systems using all of the major database platforms. He currently is the President of the Salt Lake City Delphi Users Group and is a frequent speaker at technology conferences and events. He can be followed on his blog at http://robstechcorner.blogspot.com.
Ann Lynnworth is a woman of many hats, having led dozens of technical training seminarsthroughout the United States in the early 80s, having helped start the delphi-webapplication evolution in 1994, having pioneered “Tech Talk Radio” at HREF Tools Corp. in 1996, and having sponsored several major Delphi community web sites including dsp.href.com and codenewsfast.com. Ann's articles have been published by Dr. Dobbs, in two books, and most recently in Software Development Network magazine. A dynamic speaker with an unusual point of view, Ann has often had rave reviews from seminar and conference attendees. Ann holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Wellesley College in Massachusetts and is President of HREF Tools Corp.
Eric Madariaga is the Vice President of Marketing for /n software, a leading provider of professional tools and components for Internet communications, security, and e-business development. He has more than a decade of experience in the software component industry, focusing on connectivity integration through various desktop, Web, and mobile development technologies including .NET, Delphi, and C++Builder.
Jim McKeeth is a Developer Evangelist for RemObjects Software and host of the Podcast at Delphi.org. He presents on Delphi, .NET, Mac OSX and iPhone development topics and loves to share his passion about software development any chance he gets. Jim is a published author on software development and is a regular presenter at conferences. RemObjects Software provides the Oxygene compiler that powers Delphi Prism, as well as database infrastructure tools for enterprise level scalability across multiple platforms.
Boian Mitov is a software developer and founder of Mitov Software http://www.mitov.com , specialized in the areas of Video, Audio, Digital Signal Processing, Data Acquisition, Hardware Control, Industrial Automation, Communications, Computer Vision, and Artificial Intelligence. He is author of the OpenWire open source technology: http://www.openwire.org, the IGDI+ open source library: http://www.igdiplus.org, the VideoLab, SignalLab, AudioLab, PlotLab, InstrumentLab, and VisionLab libraries: http://www.mitov.com, and author of the “VCL for Visual C++” technology: http://www.mitov.com.
Boian has 26 years of overall programming and hardware experience, including over 20 years of C++, and 11 year of Delphi development experience. During those years he has worked on various hardware designs, Windows applications and embedded solutions for number of companies, including Rockwell International, Johnson Controls, and Innovative Integration. Boian has done many advanced VCL designs, some of them available for free download with sources from http://www.mitov.com. Today he is focused on developing the Mitov Software’s solutions, and providing custom developments on contract basis.
Gordon Morrison is an inventor, consultant, author, and speaker. Gordon has spoken at SSTC-Online.org conference, IEEE meetings, U of Missouri, U of Houston, Lockheed ATL, SRI International, and the DACS webinar. He has developed real-time weather radar systems, invented the technology known today as multi-core and hyper-threading technology (U.S. Patent 4,847,755) licensed to Intel, IBM, TI, Motorola, Apple, and many others. Gordon has developed extensive database systems, developed high-performance communications systems, and developed micro-code for animation and weather radar. Gordon’s main interest has been improving the quality of software and reducing complexity. Gordon wrote Breaking the Time Barrier: The Temporal Engineering of Software. Breaking the Time Barrier dramatically refines the old concepts of specifications, state machines, table-driven process, and trace. Breaking the Time Barrier lays the groundwork for reducing software complexity and unifying the specification-model into the application.
Christine Normile has more than 20 years of IT experience in engineering, database consulting and marketing in top-tier companies. An accomplished product strategist and marketer, her vision and expertise in relational database management systems have driven notable revenue growth and cost savings for a number of products and companies. Christine is currently Senior Product Manager for Embarcadero Technologies. She is responsible for driving the future direction of InterBase, a leading embedded and workgroup RDBMS. Christine began her career as an operating system engineer in Sunnyvale, CA focused on performance management and spent many years consulting with clients worldwide helping them improve data server performance and implement solid IT architectures. Prior to joining Embarcadero, she held product management positions at IBM and Ingres.
Girish Patil has been programming using Delphi since Delphi’s first release. He has a fair bit of experience programming on Windows and doing things the hard way. With this background, he can easily appreciate the ease of getting things done using Delphi, and with an innate ability to understand customers, fellow-programmers, and the nuances of things in general, he can relate to programmers of different backgrounds and abilities. He stays alert to apply this ability in his everyday interactions with colleagues and customers and when he is presenting. Girish is the founder of Gnostice Information Technologies, a software firm specializing in creating PDF and document processing technologies and products for software developers using the Delphi, .NET and Java platforms. His key roles at Gnostice are to envision the software developer technologies and products created at Gnostice and delve deep into the architectural details to see that they are just perfect for the discerning and highly knowledgeable software developer. Before founding Gnostice, Girish designed and created several software libraries and software applications while he consulted for large establishments such as Ogilvy and Mather, 3M, Pond’s and others. He co-founded his first company, Pragnaan Software after the consulting stint, finally, leaving it all behind to found Gnostice.
Chris Pattinson has over 10 years of Software Quality experience since starting with Borland in 2000. He has worked as an International QA Engineer, International Project Manager, International QA Manager and QA manager for RAD Studio prior to taking over as Embarcadero’s Director of Quality Assurance in April of 2009. Under his leadership, RAD Studio has been able to greatly improve its quality and customer satisfaction and at the same time they’ve been able to respond to ever increasing complexity in the products and targeted platforms. Chris is now working to implement quality process changes in all Embarcadero projects. Chris has a Bachelors of Science in Information Technology from Capella University, an Associate Diploma of Business in Applied Computing from Canberra University, Australia, and is working on a Masters of Information Technology in Leadership and Project Management.
Craig Peterson is Beyond Compare's lead developer and project manager. Since joining Scooter Software in 2000 he has developed many of Beyond Compare's features, including the folder comparison, on both Windows and Linux. He is also project manager for the Abbrevia compression library.
Jeroen W. Pluimers is trainer, coach and consultant at better office benelux. They deliver top training, coaching, consultancy and projects using Microsoft .NET and Embarcadero technologies. Their goal is to provide great knowledge and skills, and breed some great software developers. Jeroen has a wide experience with C#, Delphi,.NET, XML and much more. His passion is to assist people in getting up to speed. To keep his high level of experience, he also participates in some real software development projects. Right now, he is involved in creating systems that reliably communicate with XSD validated XML over various communication channels, and a system for the optometrist branche. You can reach Jeroen by e-mail at
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Jon Robertson provides software design consulting and custom component development through his company jmrSoftware. Jon started using Delphi in 1996 and has used every version of Delphi, as well as several versions of C++Builder. Jon has developed several commercially available software products that were built using either Delphi or C++Builder. For the last ten years, he has worked as a full-time developer at MedEvolve, an ISV developing healthcare software. Jon's work at MedEvolve focuses heavily on the client/server architecture using DataSnap, and focusing on the new dbExpress DataSnap for the past year.
Michael Rozlog is the senior director of products for Embarcadero. In this role, he is focused on ensuring the developer focused products being created by Embarcadero meet the expectations of developers around the world. Much of his time is dedicated to discussing and explaining the technical and business aspects of Embarcadero’s products and services to analysts and other audiences worldwide. Mike was formerly with CodeGear, a developer tools group that was acquired by Embarcadero in 2008. Previously, he spent more than eight years working for Borland in a number of positions, including a primary role as Chief Technical Architect. A reputed author, Mike has been published numerous times. His latest collaboration is Mastering JBuilder from John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Bob Swart (aka Dr.Bob - www.drbob42.com) of Bob Swart Training & Consultancy is based in The Netherlands and offers Delphi training and private workshops, courseware manuals (for self-study), consultancy and development using Delphi for Win32 or .NET, and is an Embarcadero reseller for the BeNeLux.
His weblog Drs.Bob's Delphi Notes can be found at http://www.bobswart.nl/blog and is powered by Delphi and ASP.NET.
Jim Tierney is a Principal Engineer at Embarcadero Technologies. Since Delphi 3, Jim has helped develop many Delphi and C++Builder features. He is currently working on database features of RAD Studio and Delphi Prism.
Brad Wulf brings over 9 years of experience in the Software and Database Development industry to Embarcadero. He is currently a Software Consultant where he is responsible for assisting Sales Representatives in communicating the value of Embarcadero and its growing product family to current and prospective customers. His career began at Advanced Software Technologies working with a UML modeling solution which was eventually acquired by Embarcadero Technologies in 2002. After stints in Technical Support, Development and Build Management at Embarcadero, Brad joined the Software Consulting team in 2006. Brad earned a bachelor's degree in Business Education from Kansas State University and recently completed a Master of Business Administration from the University of Colorado.
