Recognize those who go above and beyond

Jon Skeet

Jon is a Staff Developer Platforms Engineer at Google, but is probably best known for his contributions on Stack Overflow. Jon spends most of his time on open source work, building the .NET client libraries for Google APIs, along with related projects like Protocol Buffers. Open source is important in his non-work time as well, as both the main contributor to the Noda Time date/time API for .NET, and also as a member of the Board of Directors for the .NET Foundation.

Monica Powell

Monica Powell is a product engineer who is passionate about making open-source more accessible, creating technology to elevate people, and building community, online & offline. You can often find her contributing to projects like GatsbyJS, teaching web development or tending to the React Ladies community she founded.

Ovilia Wen Zhang

Ovilia is a data visualization developer and open source maintainer from Shanghai, China. She is a full-time maintainer for Apache ECharts (incubating), which was originally open sourced by Baidu and is now in incubation at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). In her spare time, Ovilia loves to work on meaningful personal projects and find inspiration for both herself and for other female developers.

Chrissy LeMaire

Chrissy is a dual Microsoft MVP who has worked in IT for over 20 years. She is the creator of the popular SQL PowerShell module dbatools, holds a master's degree in Systems Engineering and is coauthor of Learn dbatools in a Month of Lunches.

Kristian Freeman

I'm Kristian, I'm a developer and YouTube creator! I work on Bytesized, which produces the free remote conf series Byteconf, and I also work at Cloudflare as the Developer Advocate for Cloudflare Workers. I love to teach web development, serverless, and all kinds of other things online :)

Tom Kerkhove

Tom works for Codit as an Azure Architect and R&D Manager and has been a Microsoft Azure MVP & Advisor since 2014. You can find him around on GitHub maintaining KEDA, Promitor, Azure Deprecation & Arcus, and is driving open-source at Codit. He turns coffee into scalable & secure cloud systems and writes about his adventures on blog.tomkerkhove.be.

Prosper Otemuyiwa

Prosper Otemuyiwa is a seasoned developer advocate & firm believer of building for posterity. He co-founded and leads forloop (the largest developer community in Africa). He is also the co-founder and CTO of Eden.