Sasha Goldshtein - MVP

Sasha Goldshtein is CTO in Sela Group. He leads the Performance and Debugging team at Sela Technology Center. Sasha consults on various topics, including production debugging, application and system troubleshooting, performance optimizations, distributed architecture and others. Sasha’s experience revolves around managed and native application development in C#, C++ and C++/CLI, designing interoperability solutions, architecting multi-tier high-performance and high-scalability systems and finding solutions to “impossible” problems in the field. Sasha is a renowned local and international trainer: He trained hundreds of IT professionals on dozens of courses and is in great demand for training world-wide.

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Alex Golesh - MVP

Alex Golesh is an international expert in Silverlight and WPF. He serves as Silverlight Lead and Senior Consultant at Sela Group. He is currently consulting in various enterprises in Israel and worldwide, architecting and developing RIA and Smart Client based solutions. Alex is one of the top Silverlight experts in Israel. He conducts lectures and workshops for developers and enterprises that want to specialize in RIA and Smart Client development, and he leads the architecture and development process of many RIA and Smart Client projects.

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Gil Fink - MVP

Gil Fink, Microsoft MVP, is an expert in web development and Microsoft data platform. He works as a senior .NET Consultant and architect at Sela Group. He is currently consulting for various enterprises, architecting and developing web and RIA based solutions. He conducts lectures and workshops for developers and enterprises who want to specialize in infrastructure and web development

Ido Flatow - MVP

Ido Flatow is a senior consultant and lecturer at Sela Group. With over 12 years of experience in developing, designing and managing information systems, Ido is one of Sela's senior consultants in Entity Framework, Web technologies and also consults and lectures on WCF, ASP.NET and Silverlight. Currently, Ido is the chief architect of a Silverlight based GIS application through Microsoft Consulting Services.

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Shai Raiten - MVP, ALM Team

Shai Raiten is a Team System MVP and Testing MRD, at Sela Group as a ALM senior consultant and trainer. He specializes in Microsoft technologies, especially Team System and .NET technologies. He is currently consulting in various enterprises in Israel, planning and analyzing Load and performance problems using Team System, building Team System customizations and he adjusts ALM processes for enterprises. Shai is one of the top Team System experts in Israel. He conducts lectures and workshops for developers\QA and enterprises that want to specialize in Team System .

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Baruch Frei, ALM Team

Baruch Frei is a Senior Consultant at Sela. He specializes in Microsoft technologies including .NET framework. He is familiar with the VS ALM Platform since the early 2005 version. He is currently consulting in various enterprises in Israel including selected projects in the IDF working with the VS ALM platform and how to implement it in the daily work environment. He has vast knowledge in all the TFS (Team Foundation Server) aspects such as: Version Control, Configuration Management, Work Item Tracking, Automatic builds, traceability Reports, WSS, Dev tools for LCM and basically everything that includes the VS ALM tools. He is expert in implementing advanced automatic build solutions on the VS ALM platform using MSBuild (TFS 2005/8) & WF 4.0 (TFS 2010) including testing, auto deployment to multiple environments and much more. He has been conducting lectures in several Sela conferences and Microsoft User Groups.

Shmulik Segal, ALM Team

Shmulik Segal is Application Life Management (ALM) Group Leader of Sela Technology Center specialized in Microsoft technologies and .NET framework. Shmulik is the pioneers that studied and deployed Visual Studio Team System in Israel. He is currently consulting in various enterprises in Israel and worldwide about Team System platform and how to leverage the whole software management lifecycle process through Team System. He has much knowledge in many Application Life Management aspects like: Configuration Management, Software Development Process methodologies Such as SCRUM, XP & CMMI, Automatic builds Tractability Reports, Dev tools for LCM and basically everything that includes with Team System tools.

Dan Morgenstern , ALM Team

Dan Morgenstern is an ALM Architect at Sela . Dan has over 25 years of development experience in various technologies, and has developed many WIN and ASP.net applications. Dan is specializing in the Application Lifecycle Management process through VS ALM, and in configuration management of databases using VS ALM. Dan has been conducting lectures, providing solutions for development architecture, developing , guiding development teams and helping in troubleshooting through the development process. Dan has assisted in preparing demos for Microsoft Tech-Ed 2008, and had lectures in Microsoft Tech-Ed 2010 and in Microsoft ALM User Group.

Yuval Mazor , ALM Team

Yuval Mazor is a Senior Consultant at Sela. Yuval specializes in Agile development techniques such as TDD/BDD, Domain-Driven Design and Pair Programming. He has over 12 years of industry experience in both C++ and managed code, including being on one of the first teams in Israel to use the .NET 1.0 Release Candidate 2 for production systems. During his time at HP, Yuval was a core member and technical lead for teams that were selected for participation in the prestigious annual HP TechCon innovation conference, 2 years running. Yuval is a highly experienced developer and architect, with a passion for scalable designs and adaptable systems. He enjoys teaching and mentoring other developers and helping others to increase their software-development effectiveness.

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Noam Sheffer

Noam Sheffer is a senior consultant at Sela. Noam spent his last 16 years combating software bugs and developing new ones. From the dungeons of real-time embedded applications to the abstraction of .NET application work, since Beta1 of .NET 1.0, Noam spent a lot of time around the globe, catching the bugs in their natural environment at customer sites and doing post deployment debugging on active 24/7 applications.

Sebastian Pederiva

Sebastian Pederiva, is a Consultant at Sela. He has over than 10 years experience in designing and developing software. Sebastian has extensive experience in web applications, N-Tier architecture and high transaction throughput. He specializes in technologies such as ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC and AJAX. Formerly a Technology Manager and web guru at an internet company, he has worked with and supported worldwide customers. Sebastian is an expert in UI web development and client side architecture. He has led several complex projects, mainly web solutions.

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Erez Harari

Erez Harari is a Senior Architect and Consultant at Sela Technology Center. Formerly a CTO, in a MOSS specialization company, and a .NET specialist and consultant in C4 technology based projects; Erez has an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the Microsoft .NET infrastructure and .NET architecture. Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework v4.0 including Entity Framework v4.0 (etc.) are already installed on his Windows 7 RTM running laptop, being tested and explored all the time. Starting to explore the secrets of software development at the age of 11, and working in the Hi-Tech industry since the age of 17, Erez already had 10 years of mastering C++ (under Microsoft and other operating systems) and 2 years of Java experience, when he willingly took the deep dive into Microsoft .NET as it first showed up as beta during the year 2000. Though also experienced in client software and UI/Web development and WSS/Office development, Erez specializes in server-side technologies, and even more in data oriented technologies, such as: Entity Framework (and ORM in general), LINQ, WCF, WF, and of course a variety of database engines. Erez is also a skilled professional lecturer and trainer, delivering lectures in professional class courses as well as in open houses and at public conventions.

Manu Cohen-Yashar

Manu Cohen-Yashar, MCT, is an international expert in Distributed systems and Application Security. He serves as Lead and Senior Consultant at Sela Group. He currently consults in various enterprises in Israel and worldwide, architecting and developing distributed applications using Microsoft technologies. Manu is member of the Microsoft Metro team (Microsoft early adoption program) and trains on future Microsoft technologies like Azure and Live Framework around the world. Cohen-Yashar is known as one of the top WCF experts in Israel. He conducts lectures and workshops for developers and enterprises that want to specialize in Distributed secure application development.

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Bnaya Eshet

Bnaya Eshet is a Senior Consultant, specializing in Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control frameworks and architectures, with a deep vested interest in the Microsoft Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) since its early inception. Bnaya is an experienced architect with solid understanding of complex application architecture and design, especially in WPF. As part of his work, he introduces complexity management into existing applications and is a key developer on the XP to Win7 PhotoViewer reference application. In the past, Bnaya worked as a Chief Architect, Development Manager and CTO for various companies and is renowned for his encyclopedic knowledge, leadership skills, and mentoring fellow developers. He is also the author of multiple CodeProject articles.

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Yaniv Rodenski

Yaniv Rodenski is a Senior Consultant at Sela. Yaniv has over 14 years of industry experience as a developer, team leader, R&D manager and architect in various microsoft environments. Yaniv is experienced in developing large scale, distributed and data-centric systems. Yaniv is currently leading a team of consultants and developers in a large scale homeland security project for one of Sela's customers, using cutting edge techologies such as WCF 4.0, EF 4.0, LINQ, AppFabric, etc. .

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Elad Katz

Elad Katz is Senior Consultant at Sela. He specializes in WPF, Silverlight and ASP.NET, with more than 10 years of experience in the industry in various .NET technologies. He conducts lectures and workshops for developers and enterprises that want to specialize in RIA and Smart Client development. In the past Elad has worked as a CTO of a software outsourcing company, and has supervised the architecture and design of more than 50 projects (WPF, Silverlight and ASP.NET), leading to a very strong architecture background.

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Eitan Bar

Eitan Bar, is an expert in Microsoft SQL Server Database AND Business Intelligence He works as a senior Consultant and CEO of Inspire Technologies, Sela's Partners. He Manages the Databases and BI Courses in Sela. He conducts lectures and workshops for DBA's , Developers , QA who want to specialize in database development and infrastructure. He is currently consulting for various Enterprises Companies, Architecting and developing the Cutting Edge Database and BI technologies.

Alon Levi

Alon Levi is a Senior Consultant at Sela. He specializes in smart UI applications with cutting edge technologies such as WPF , MVVM, Prism and MEF. He is highly skilled in C&C applications containing video and map and involving DirectShow, ESRI and third party vendors. Alon has vast experience in system architecting and design and has a deep understanding of how client applications behave. Alon was enlisted to one of the top IDF's technological units and took a role as a team manager, and was responsible of some of its most contributing systems. Alon has a lot of passion to solve deep issues regarding application modularity and robustness, and specializes in WPF performance issue.

Elad Shaham

Elad Shaham works for Microsoft Israel where he plays with all the latest developer tools and technologies. He enjoys speaking with developers and advise on adopting new technologies that let people realize their potential. In his spare time he edits the monthly newsletter for developers: the MSDN Pulse.

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Maor David-Pur

Business Development & Technology Evangelism for ISVs at Microsoft Email: maor@maordavid.com Experienced results-driven, creative and visionary software R&D manager with more than 15 years in software development using advanced methodologies and state-of-the-art technologies. Vast and proven experience at enterprises and startup companies, leading tailor-made solutions, off-the-shelve products and consulting. A motivational leader who binds strong technical, business and managerial abilities.

Guy Burstein

Guy Burstein works for Microsoft Israel where he plays with all the latest developer tools and technologies. He enjoys speaking with developers and advise on adopting new technologies that let people realize their potential. In his spare time he edits the monthly newsletter for developers: the MSDN Pulse

Ran Wahle

Ran Wahle is a Consultant at Sela.
Ran specializes in various Microsoft technologies and has served in many projects as a senior developer and technology leader. Ran has over 5 years of experience in the development industry, in addition to his 3 years experience as system administrator . Ran specializes also in refactoring legacy projects along with migrating them to new technologies.