Introducing the bloggers

Steef-Jan is IT architect/Consultant with over 13 years of experience as a technical lead developer and application architect, specializing in custom applications, enterprise application integration (BizTalk), Web services and Windows Azure. He has experience in architecting, designing, developing, and supporting sophisticated and innovative software using many different Microsoft technologies and products. Steef-Jan is very active in BizTalk community as blogger, Wiki author/editor, forums, writer and public speaker. He has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award (2010) for his contributions to the world-wide BizTalk Server community. He has been re-awarded July 2011 and July 2012. On his personal blog he shares his knowledge around SOA, Azure AppFabric (ServiceBus) and BizTalk. His certifications are: MCSD, MCSD.NET, MCSA, MCDBA, MCAD, MCTS: BizTalk Server 2006, BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and BizTalk Server 2010. He has been acting as a technical reviewer for BizTalk Server 2010 Patterns book by Dan Rosanova and (MCTS): Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) Certification Guide by Kent Weare, Johan Hedberg, and Morten la Cour. Steef-Jan is author of the BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook, published 5th of April 2012.

Sandro Pereira lives in Portugal and works as a BizTalk consultant at DevScope. In the last few years has been working implementing integration scenarios and Cloud Provisioning at a major telecommunications service provider in Portugal. His main focus is on Integration Technologies where is been using .NET, BizTalk and SOAP/XML/XSLT since 2002.

He is an active blogger, member of BizTalk Brazil Community, member and moderator of MSDN BizTalk Server Forums, Code Gallery contributor and was awarded Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for BizTalk Server by Microsoft since 2011. He has certifications for BizTalk Server 2006 and BizTalk Server 2010.

Andres Del Rio Benito has been working with BizTalk since around 2004, and all the way through all its versions until BizTalk 2010. During his career he had several roles, developer, consultant, architect and development lead roles in different projects. He was also the official BizTalk trainer for different teams across Accenture CIO and Avanade Spain during his career back in Spain.
Besides his BizTalk work, he spent many years in Avanade and Accenture CIO Enterprise Architecture team. In that team he was involved in different initiatives not only around BizTalk, but also many other technologies along the Microsoft Stack. Andres left Spain some time ago with his wife to find new challenges in London. He worked some time as a BizTalk engineer for Microsoft UK.  He currently works for Wipro as a Solution Architect delivering solutions to clients in the Financial Services and Insurance sectors.

Lex Hegt currently works as a BizTalk architect/administrator at Ordina. Although he works in the Information Technology for more than 25 years, he 'only' works with BizTalk for 8 years. His first BizTalk assignments were as a developer, but since a couple of years he works as an administrator.
Besides this blog he also blogs for many years at the BIA blog and does he maintain some tools, namely BizTalk Processing Monitor and BTSDecompress. He has certifications for BizTalk Server 2006, BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and BizTalk Server 2010.

Peter Winther is an IT architect at Volvo IT and works with information technology since 1998. He has worked with BizTalk from 2004 inside Volvo IT with BizTalk Operation and he also works with SOA technology, and integration both inside Volvo Group and for external customers.