Ricardo Peres

PhD student at DEI, University of Coimbra, Portugal. Technical manager in small and medium size projects, with classic (waterfall) and agile (Scrum, SAFE) methodologies. Focus on architectures, distributed systems, enterprise application integration, web applications and data access technologies. Awarded as Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) from 2015-2019 and from 2024 again. Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS). Speaker, trainer and blogger, with international experience. Contributor and author of open-source projects. Authored books for Packt Publishing: - Modern Web Development with ASP.NET Core 3 - Second Edition - Entity Framework Core Cookbook - Second Edition - Mastering ASP.NET Core 2.0. Authored e-books for the Succinctly series of Syncfusion: - Entity Framework Code First Succinctly - NHibernate Succinctly - Microsoft Unity Succinctly - ASP.NET Multitenant Applications Succinctly - Entity Framework Core Succinctly Technical reviewer of books for Syncfusion, Manning Publishing, and Packt Publishing. Areas of knowledge/interest: - Enterprise application integration patterns - Microservices architectures and patterns - .NET - Node.js - Docker - .NET data access technologies (Entity Framework Core, NHibernate) - Relational databases (SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL) - Non-relational databases (MongoDB, Elasticsearch) - Cloud providers (Azure, AWS) - Message brokers (RabbitMQ, Kafka)