Speaker Spotlight is your chance to get to know the ESPC22 Speakers! Find out what projects they are most proud of, advice, tips, their favourite films and more!

Introducing Joseph Guadagno, MVP

Joseph Guadagno is a Director of Engineering at Rocket Mortgage, the nation’s largest mortgage lender based in Detroit, Michigan. He has been writing software for over 20 years and has been an active member of the .NET community, serving as a Microsoft MVP in .NET for more than ten years.

At Rocket Mortgage, he leads five software development teams building and modernizing our internal services. He has spoken through the United States and international events on topics ranging from Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Azure, Ionic, Bootstrap, and many others.

Please recommend one ESPC22 Session (you can’t pick your own 😊 )

A Match Made in The Cloud: Container Apps + Dapr

Can you briefly discuss a project you are most proud of?

I am really proud of the patent I received for “EXTRACTING DATA SETS FROM EXTERNAL DATA STORES”

My favorite film is probably to Lord of the Ring series

What is the best career or life advice you have received to date?

You should work to live not live to work

Have you any tips on receiving a MVP status?

I have a whole blog post dedicate to this So you want to be a Microsoft MVP – JosephGuadagno.net