Team

Keyvan Nayyeri (Architect and Team Lead)

Keyvan is a software architect and developer who has a bachelor of science degree in applied mathematics. He was born in Kermanshah, Kurdistan, in 1984.

Keyvan’s main focus is on Microsoft development technologies and their related technologies such as mark-up languages. He’s also experienced in practices and enjoys them very much. Keyvan has a serious passion for community activities and open-source software. As a result, he is an author for some famous .NET communities and has published various articles and tutorials on them. He is also a team leader and developer of some famous .NET open-source projects (including BlogML) where he tries to learn many things through writing code for special purposes. As an old ASP.NET developer, Keyvan is also a big fan and follower of Telligent products and holds an MVP award for Community Server as well.

Keyvan is also an author for Wrox Press and has authored Professional Visual Studio Extensibility and co-authored Professional Community Server books.

When he’s not coding, he enjoys blogging, reading technical books, listening to music, and playing video games.

You can check out his blog, which contains his thoughts about technical and personal stuff, at www.nayyeri.net.

Darren Neimke (Founder and Contributor)

Darren is a senior consultant with Readify in Australia. He has MCAD and also holds Microsoft MVP award for ASP.NET and is a member of ASP Insiders group.

He is the founder of BlogML project and still contributes to the project in his free times.

His recent and current interest is building online portals with ASP.NET and he is one of the first guys in this field on .NET community.

Darren is interested in learning how to get the most out of himself and then, to get better at inspiring others to do the same.

One of his current interests is locating and working from great mobile workplaces such as coffee shops.

He has been an author for .NET communities and is the author of ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts in Action by Manning publishing. He also speaks in several community events.

Darren has a blog on Live Spaces and there he writes about everything.

Simone Chiaretta (Contributor)

Simone is a software developer/architect who spent his last 7 years coding on the .NET platform both for business and for fun.

He worked for 8 years for Esperia, a web agency based in Milan (Italy), and then he decided to go to the place which is the farthest possible from Milan: Wellington in New Zealand where he worked as Chief Software Architect for Calcium Software Ltd.

Back to Italy he decided to try the consulting world, and joined the ranks of Avanade, an international consulting company jointly owned by Accenture and Microsoft, where he is now working as Senior Solution Developer.

He worked on many opensource projects in the past, like FCKeditor, but now he is mainly focusing on Subtext, a famous .NET blog engine.

He is also an active community member, in Italy and worldwide: he publish his thoughts on his blog CodeClimber and on is Italian blog about .NET  which is hosted on the UGIdotNET web site. And he also participated as speaker at various community events both in Italy and New Zealand.

When he is not writing code, blog posts or taking part in the worldwide .NET community, he "likes to look for the shortest path up to a mountain, which usually is a vertical one": free-climbing, mountain climbing and ice climbing are his other ways of throwing away his spare time.