Chris Schaller

MCP 70-473: Design and Implement Cloud Data Platform Solutions (2017) MCP 70-433: TS: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Database Development (2011)

MCP 70-483: Programming in C# I love all things C# and have a deep respect for the evolution of the language and its progenitors. I was originally a Java and Visual Objects developer but in 2002 I switched over to C# and .Net and never looked back. (thanks mostly to Visual Studio as a vastly superior IDE to the others at the time, even today!) Almost every application I write uses my skills in C#, since Windows IoT Core I have been using C# for embedded systems and IoT projects and I am even in the process of migrating all my previous Angular JS projects over to Blazor and MAUI. I've developed actively through all versions and frameworks of C# including WinForms, WebForms, Silverlight, WPF, MVC, WCF, UWP, Web API, Cordova, Xamarin, Blazor and even Lightswitch. I would like to say I've seen it all, including all variants of upgrades and downgrades between the different framework versions, but I'm always hungry for new experiences. I have a good understanding based on experience on what types of solutions and design approaches work, and which ones do not. It is important to adopt a design paradigm that matches your team and project management style. What works for one team, could be a disaster for another.

EF has been my preferred ORM since I fell in love with the concept of Self Tracking Entities back in EF4. In EF6 I converted all my previous ORMs and custom implementations and have not looked back. I find the DbContext and Unit of Work model to be far superior to repository patterns and that it simplifies many distributed and disconnected programming issues that you will face in the wild.

Since the release of OData v4, I transitioned from Repository based API implementations to EF and OData and never looked back. I Implement OData API in all commercial projects to decouple the user interface from the backend and have found this has facilitated both rapid prototyping and development of user experiences for desktop and web based applications.

From small scale home and office automation with Arduino Microcontrollers to remote agricultural field solutions using Raspberry Pi. I have designed hardware solutions and the infrastructure around it to squeeze the best performance out of the Azure Cloud Services to meet the individualised needs of clients. In many cases there will be off the shelf hardware that I can integrate but sometimes I need to engineer bespoke sensors or specialised housing. If I can't do it myself, I'll be able to find someone who can, it's about getting the job done the right way, not necessarily my way.