Paul Oliver sometimes types in the third person and feels weird as he does it.Prior to working at Google, he worked primarily with Microsoft technologies: ASP.NET, SQL Server, C#, and just a skosh of WPF and Silverlight. In his free time he powercodes with Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, mySQL and Redis. What are his absolute favorite technologies, you ask? "Simple," he replies, "I love web programming with access to the full-stack. I love building interactive EmberJS applications like EnterpriseMapper (http://enterprisemapper.com)."Now at Google, Paul knows a lot of proprietary Google technology that no one else uses, but also Java and TypeScript.An equal opportunity tinkerer, he's also created a few Android apps. Unfortunately the apps aren't that good so you won't find them in the Play store.He's a technology Renaissance Man: he's a power-user on a Linux Box, Windows Box, FreeBSD Box, or on his favorite: a MacBook Pro. Put him in front of a Windows 11 box and he looks like a spider monkey at the nuclear power plant.Paul likes to help others learn--he likes to think that his passion for technology and practices is contagious. He loves to give presentations to share his knowledge with others. And he's got over 7,200 points on StackOverflow--in the top 6% of contributors! 🎉 #humblebrag. He authored a 34-part video course for Packt Publishing called "Getting Started with Azure Functions". He published a very popular video on YouTube called "Cloud Wars: AWS vs. Microsoft Azure" which has close to 100,000 views.Specialties: Leadership, Architecture, Technology Evaluation, Coaching, AngularJS, EmberJS, Microsoft ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Visual Studio Online/TFS 2013, Java, C#, .NET, Design Patterns, Best Practices, Ruby on Rails, Heroku, git, JavaScript, TypeScript, CoffeeScript, Backbone.JS, JQuery, Open Source, SQL Server, Python, PostgreSQL, NOSQL, and typing in the third person.