As a Professional Triathlete, Steven races 70.3 and Ironman distances. While primarily self-coached, he has utilized the advice of elite coaches and legends including Simon Lessing, Michael Lovato, and Dave Scott. Living in Boulder, Colorado, Steven is 100% dedicated to his success in the sport having made many sacrifices to make this commitment possible. He consistently places in the top ten as high as third place overall. Steven races for Blue Seventy and PowerBar.Accomplished Solutions Architect with an enormous depth and breadth in Microsoft architecture as well as having over 10 years’ experience in designing and building large enterprise systems. Steven specializes in providing real-world solutions implemented using .NET Core in Cloud Native and building integrated, orchestrated systems. His thought leadership enables him to creatively and effectively drive business solutions through technology. Technically, his evangelism and expertise with system architecture and programming ensures project success. All his projects have involved the usage of Design Patterns and Domain Driven Design. Created frameworks for micro-service and hexagonal architecture which include Command Query Responsibility Separation (CQRS) and repositories that outperform EntityFramework. Expert in all the sign in protocols including SAML, OpenID, and OAuth.Author of Zerra Microservice Framework https://github.com/szawaski/Zerra