Ed Snider is a senior software engineer, speaker, and Xamarin MVP based in the Washington DC/Northern Virginia area. He has a passion for mobile design and development and regularly speaks about Xamarin and Windows app development at local user groups and community events. Ed is also the founder and organizer of the DC and Northern Virginia Mobile .NET Developers Groups. Ed works at InfernoRed Technology, where his primary role is working with clients and partners to build awesome mobile solutions on the iOS, Android, and Windows platforms. He's been coding for over half of his life, starting out by working part time in high school updating the local newspaper's website and building web apps for small businesses in his hometown. For the first few years of his career as a software developer, Ed worked with Cold Fusion to build dynamic web applications and e-commerce solutions. He started working with the .NET framework when .NET 2.0 came out, building enterprise software with WinForms and ASP.NET, and eventually got into SharePoint solution architecture and development for large federal organizations.

For the past several years, Ed has been focused on building mobile apps with .NET for Windows, iOS, and Android using Xamarin. Ed blogs at www.edsnider.net and can be found on Twitter at www.twitter.com/edsnider.