About the Author

Pete Brown works for Microsoft as a Technical Evangelist on the Client and Devices team in John Shewchuk’s “deep tech” (http://bit.ly/DeepTech) Developer Platform Evangelism group. His role is helping developers create high-quality apps for all clients, using Microsoft tools and technologies.

Prior to joining Microsoft in 2009, Pete was an architect, engagement manager, and user experience designer at a consulting company in the Washington, DC, area, where he focused on Silverlight and WPF development. During that time he was also an INETA speaker, a Microsoft WPF MVP, and a Microsoft Silverlight MVP.

As one of only a few remote workers in corporate Microsoft, Pete has a lot of Lync/ Skype webcam meetings and enjoys the stunned look he gets whenever people see his home office in the background. If a nuclear submarine and a radio station had a child near an anime convention staffed by modular synth addicts working on Commodore 64s, it would be only slightly less geeky.

Pete enjoys playing with synthesizers, writing, woodworking, electronics, programming (PC apps as well programs for ARM microcontrollers), making things with no practical use, acquiring huge monitors, cooking processors, and of course, spending time with his wife and two children at their home in Maryland.