Let's get acquainted!

Let me introduce myself. My name is Alexander Lozhechkin, I work as the head of the department of strategic technologies in the Russian representation of Microsoft. We call the Department of Strategic Technologies in Russian what is originally in English called the Department of Developers & Platform Evangelism.

I came to Microsoft a little more than six years ago, starting work in the same department, which at that time consisted of only eight people, an evangelist (or an expert on software development technologies, as was written on the business card). Now we have more than 40 (the exact number depends on the method of counting). Before Microsoft, I worked at DocsVision , where I managed the development of this product. And I started my professional career in IT at Digital Design as a software developer. Until now, I consider programming the most interesting activity in life, although I haven’t been doing it professionally for a long time.

I, like my colleagues, found my other vocation: to make all developers, IT specialists, architects, technical students, in general, all technical specialists in Russia, more successful and happy. And this is really the goal that big Microsoft sets for our department, without any embellishment. And plans to enslave the world and the task of "be evil" really are not on our agenda.
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The mission of our unit is:
It is a clear concept of the Microsoft platform.

Or, translated into Russian:
Increase the number of people and companies in Russia who succeed by creating software and helping others to realize their potential using the Microsoft platform, technologies and tools.

Now in Russia, the entire software industry brings in only 0.22% of GDP. In the USA, for example, this share is 3%, and in Israel - as much as 4%. I believe that our country, in which so many talented software developers live, deserves better than simply supplying oil and gas to the rest of the world. That's why my colleagues and I are here.

And Microsoft technologies are secondary here: we are here because we know and believe that using these technologies you can create applications and build information systems that can successfully interact with technologies and products from other manufacturers. Microsoft spent $ 9.5 billion on R & D last year. Let us together make this money benefit our country and our technical experts!

If Habr's readers have an interest, I will be ready to tell you more about what our department at Microsoft is doing. In the meantime, I would like to introduce my colleagues who work with us and who are already writing or going to write on Habré.

Let's get acquainted:

Roman Zdebsky (full name - Romuald) coordinates the work of technical experts (evangelists) on software development and information infrastructure management. Repeatedly spoke and took a key part in the preparation of a number of technical conferences both Microsoft ( Platform , Developer Days, TechDays, launch of Visual Studio 2008/2010, ReMIX , etc.) and industrial. Technological focus and interests - Smart Client, data access technologies, Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, cloud computing. Speaker and one of the creators of TechDays.ru .

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Gaidar Magdanurov is a web technology expert at Microsoft. Engaged in the dissemination of technological knowledge about the Microsoft web platform and effective approaches to creating web applications. Before joining Microsoft, he participated in and led the development of projects at various levels, built on the basis of various technologies, including ASP.NET, PHP, Perl, Java. He takes an active part in the development of Microsoft's business partners on the Internet.

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Sergey Orlik - an expert on architecture. Since last century and for almost 20 years in IT by internal corporate IT (ROSNO), vendors (Borland, Sun, HP, Microsoft), consulting and integration (HP Enterprise Services). “Attached a hand” to the wide popularity of Delphi, J2EE and ALM in Russia. Full member of the associations ISACA, IIBA, IASA. Translated the SWEBOK Code of Knowledge on Software Engineering (IEEE Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge) into Russian. He is so interested in the theme of mobile applications that he released the popular WinMobile editor AgileNotes , which was twice included in the list of Smartphone & PocketPC Magazine nominees “Best Software Awards” (in 2007 and 2008). For over 5 years, she has been keeping a popular blog “ IT from the height of bird flight ”. She writes on “ Architectural Notes ” on MSDN. Microsoft maintains a monthly Architects Club (you can read about it in a blog ).

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Alexander Shapoval is an information infrastructure expert at the Department of Strategic Technologies.
Lives and works in St. Petersburg. He began working at Microsoft in June 2003, becoming the third employee in the St. Petersburg office, which now employs about 50 people. For the last three years he has been working in an evangelist position and is responsible for interacting with IT professionals. With seminars TechDays (formerly TechNet) traveled almost all of Russia. In 2008, Mark Russinovich “brought” to Russia to the conference “Platform 2009”. He was responsible for all the content of last year’s Platform 2010 conference. Specializes in Windows Client, Windows Server, IIS.

Mikhail Chernomordikov is an expert on strategic technologies in the Russian representation of Microsoft.
Engaged in the implementation of projects with Russian customers using the most modern technologies Microsoft. He speaks at events, writes a blog about technologies, including Silverlight, Windows Phone, Internet Explorer, Windows 7. Co-author of an unofficial podcast from Microsoft - Podcast9 .

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Alexander Gavrilov deals with cooperation with universities in the field of training IT specialists and the study of modern information technologies.

He participated in the development of the MSDN AA program in Russia, the organization of the first Russian Imagine Cup contests, student conferences “ Microsoft Technologies in Theory and Practice of Programming ”, the creation of the Microsoft Training Course Library .

Dmitry Soshnikov has been working as a coordinator for Microsoft Russia academic programs for 4 years. He sees his main task in ensuring that students can realize their full potential - by studying modern technologies, applying them in their studies and other projects, participating in the Imagine Cup competition and becoming recognized members of the Microsoft student partner community.
Prior to Microsoft, he led a small team of developers, and was also an Associate Professor at MAI, and in this role led a team that won 2nd place in the world at the Imagine Cup 2005 in the Office Designer category. He wrote a monograph and a textbook on logical programming, shot video courses for the Internet University INTUIT , and also joined the Russian Association of Artificial Intelligence. His research interests are related to intelligent systems with a clear representation of knowledge and the semantic web, and from a technology point of view, F #, XNA Game Studio and Kodu are most interesting.
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Konstantin Kichinsky is an academic evangelist in the Russian representation of Microsoft.
As part of the academic team, he specializes in developing special programs for students and universities in Russia for accessing MS: DreamSpark and MSDNAA software , as well as helping to organize student activities at Russian universities.
He speaks at events, maintains a blog about Microsoft technologies, with an emphasis on visual presentation tools and tools for design and prototyping. Co-author of the student blog Microsoft.

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Dmitry Martynov started as a developer. At school, he was already the main administrator of a steep cluster from the Far East Branch and the Central Committee (does anyone remember what it is?) And taught instead of an informatics teacher.
It is terrible to say - the experience of more than 20 years. This development and administration and management. Yes, almost everything that relates to IT in companies of different sizes and activities. He has been working at Microsoft since 2002 in the Department of Strategic Technologies. 3 years out of 10 years at Microsoft dedicated to consulting practice and project implementation, where he was responsible for the application platform and application development.
Now fully focused on all aspects of cloud computing, and especially on the Windows Azure Platform.

Dmitry Andreev has been working at Microsoft since 2004; in the consulting group, he has been developing and implementing information systems in companies such as TNK BP, VimpelCom, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, Sberbank, Lukoil, Gazpromneft, and others. Since 2007, he has been responsible for interaction with the audience of developers on the Microsoft platform, with the main goal to improve the quality of developed solutions based on Microsoft technologies and develop the IT community.

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Andrey Beshkov is responsible for interaction with the professional communities of IT specialists, IT managers, customers and partners. Works in Microsoft since 2007. He spoke at “Techdays”, “Platform” conferences and a number of other industry events. Advises and helps to introduce new products to the largest customers of Microsoft. Specializes in security products, virtualization systems, cloud computing, client and server operating systems of Microsoft. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was engaged in building telecommunication networks and data centers of the largest cellular providers in Russia. While working in telecommunications companies involved in the implementation of Unix systems and OSS / BSS applications.

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Sergey Eremin - Project Manager for the development of technology entrepreneurship of the Russian representative office of Microsoft. The main area of ​​responsibility is the development and promotion of projects that accelerate the development of the Russian software industry; interaction with companies - software developers, investment structures, professional communities of specialists in the field of information technologies (IT). Over the past 3 years, more than 2,000 Russian entrepreneurs and start-ups have received support through programs such as BizSpark, Microsoft-Business-Start, Start in the Garage, and others. For 18 years in the software development industry. Candidate of Technical Sciences. Professional experience: software development for a number of large Russian industrial companies and state. structures; management of large-scale projects in the field of IT and education; strategic and operational management; business development; the creation of branch networks; development and promotion of new products and services

Anton Belousov at Microsoft Russia has been working since 2006, began his career from the position of an IT community manager, after which he was responsible for directing online marketing to a technical audience. He stood at the origins of such projects as TechDays.ru, Microsoft forums, Microsoft blogs, ITquiz.ru and ITcommunity.ru .
Since April 2010, he has been responsible for working with a technical audience (specialists in the development, testing, administration and implementation of RO. In Russian: developers and system administrators). Always open to suggestions and discussions.

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Alexei Mayorov at Microsoft is responsible for the life of technical communities: online are the TechNet and MSDN forums, and the MCP clubs and User Groups are offline. An important community support project is an ITBonus expert program . The most convenient platform, where technical experts can communicate with Microsoft employees, are Russian-language blogs, the development of which he also deals with. The easiest way to contact Alexey is through his blog .

Andrei Pavlychev is responsible for communication in social networks, as well as for the support and development of TechDays.ru sites, Free and trial Microsoft software , ITcommunity.ru, ITquiz.ru. Participates in the organization of conferences "Platform" and "Remix." You can address him all the questions and suggestions on the format of the Microsoft corporate blog on Habré.

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