Kevin Smith is a Microsoft MVP and Principal Software Engineer. He has been a technology enthusiast from a young age and enjoys working on a wide range of technologies. In his day-to-day work he is focused on, but not limited to, .NET and TypeScript, and using AWS and Azure Cloud Services. He is heavily involved  in  the  community,  running  three  community  groups,  2  in  the  North  of  England,  dotnet  York and dotnetsheff, and one virtual hackathon group, MiniHack. He is passionate about helping and sharing knowledge with others, speaking at user groups and conferences, and contributing to the open source community.