The Cynical Developer Creators & Guests

James Studdart is a full stack .NET developer, based in the UK. He has experience in a wide range of markets from tropical fish and domestic services to international freight and the holiday industry.He doesn’t know the meaning of downtime…

Software Engineer and 1/3 of the Coding Blocks podcast.

A Microsoft MVP, John has been a professional developer since 1999. He has focused primarily on web technologies and has experience with everything from PHP to C# to ReactJS to SignalR. Clean code and professionalism are particularly important to him, as well as mentoring and teaching others what he has learned along the way.

Dad - Podcast host of @tabsnspacesHQ - Lead developer @KoodooHQ - Dev talk giver - Thinker of great ideas and then immediately forgetter of those ideas

Ben Slinger is CTO at Podchaser and one half of podcast Bit Storm. He's a father of four.

Steve Smith (@ardalis) is an entrepreneur and software developer with a passion for building quality software as effectively as possible. He provides mentoring and training workshops for teams with the desire to improve. Steve has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for over 10 consecutive years, and is a frequent speaker at software developer conferences and events. He is one of the top contributors to the official documentation on ASP.NET Core and enjoys helpings others write maintainable, testable applications using Microsoft’s developer tools. Connect with Steve at ardalis.com.

Jamie Taylor is also known as GaProgMan.There are many different job titles that could apply to Jamie : .NET Software Craftsman; Contractor/Consultant; Business Owner; Podcast Producer, editor and host; and Multi Potentialite.But the most important of them is Dad.