Glenn Block

Glenn previously worked at Microsoft where he drove the early vision for ASP.NET Web API. He now works at Splunk making big data more accessible to developers. A hardcore coder professionally for almost 20 years, he cares deeply about making develpers' lives easier. Glenn lives and breathes code and is rumored never to actually sleep. He's also a big supporter in the shift toward cloud development having played a key role at Microsoft in supporting OSS stacks in Windows Azure. He is an active contributor to node.js and .net OSS projects, a supporter of the community, and a frequent speaker internationally. He lives with his wife and daughter in Seattle.