David Fowler has been at Microsoft for 14 years working on developer frameworks and tools in the .NET space. He's one of the creators of several popular OSS frameworks and tools such as NuGet, SignalR and ASP.NET Core. He also architected the Azure SignalR Service, a service for doing real time websocket based communication at scale. He's an avid open source advocate and developer currently focused on simplifying developer experiences in the microservice space.

When he's not working, he's busy with his 2 kids and wife playing tennis and other sports to keep himself active. David is from Barbados and goes back every year to visit family and friends and participate in the yearly Crop Over festival activities (though not since COVID).