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James Montemagno is a Principal Program Manager for Mobile Developer Tools at Microsoft. He has been a .NET developer since 2005, working in a wide range of industries including game development, printer software, and web services. Prior to becoming a Principal Program Manager, James was a professional mobile developer and has now been crafting apps since 2011 with Xamarin. In his spare time, he is most likely cycling around Seattle or guzzling gallons of coffee at a local coffee shop. He blogs code regularly on his personal blog @ http://www.montemagno.com and co-hosts the weekly development podcast Merge Conflict @ http://mergeconflict.fm.

Jody Davis is an Aerospace Engineer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.  She earned a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and an M.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from University of Virginia. Jody has worked missions such as Mars Phoenix and Mars Science Laboratory, specializing in entry, descent and landing flight dynamics and trajectory simulation at NASA Langley Research Center. She served as the NASA Langley Technical Lead for the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) flight test project. She also served as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Optical Telescope Element & Integrated Science Instrument Module (OTIS) Responsible Engineer for the Harnesss Radiator at NASA Goddard, working systems engineering and flight hardware integration and test. She now supports the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) as the Deputy Payload Systems Engineer. Jody’s hobbies include flying recreationally, hiking, traveling, running marathons, and participating in national and international STEM outreach activities. She also traveled to Tanzania and summitted Kilimanjaro in January 2018.