Bart De Smet is a Principal Software Development Engineer working on large scale stream processing systems in the Applications and Services Division at Microsoft Corporation, a course and book author. In his current role at Microsoft, he’s overseeing the architecture, design, and implementation of event processing systems that run at massive scale in data centers, as well as on cloud-connected devices. Prior to this, Bart was involved with the design and implementation of Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) and on an extended “LINQ to Anything” mission back in the SQL organization. Bart is also the author of the C# 5.0 Unleashed book by SAMS, and an author of online courses at Pluralsight.