Jonathan Aneja  
Hi, my name’s Jonathan and I’m a Program Manager on the VB team here in Redmond.   I work mainly on compiler features such as LINQ and also other projects like the Interop Forms Toolkit.   It’s about two years since I joined Microsoft – started out in ISV Advisory Services and then switched over to the VB team in early 2006.  VB is without a doubt the best language ever, and it’s a ton of fun to be able to work on it every day.

Sarika Calla  
I joined Microsoft in January 2002 and have been on VB team ever since. As a Test Lead for the VB IDE, I strive for quality. Positive customer feedback is the most rewarding work experience and customer filed bugs show areas for improvement. When not working, I spend time with my family.

Dustin Campbell  
Dustin Campbell is a program manager in the Visual Studio Managed Languages group at Microsoft where he works primarily on the Visual Basic IDE experience. Before joining Microsoft, he developed much of the low-level plumbing of the award-winning CodeRush and Refactor! products at Developer Express. Dustin is a programming language nut. His favorite color is blue.

Lisa Feigenbaum  
Lisa Feigenbaum is the program manager for the Visual Basic Editor.  Her team is responsible for some of the IDE features in Visual Studio that we use on a constant basis every day: intelliSense, error correction, code snippets, formatting, symbolic rename, etc.  She has been a member of the Visual Basic team since 2004.  Before that she earned a MS from Harvard University in applied mathematics.

Matt Gertz  
Matt Gertz was a burger-flipper, florist, librarian, submarine pilot, self-employed software developer, CAD developer, and roboticist before he finally managed to hold down a job at Microsoft.   Most of his career at MS (dating from 1994) has been on the Visual Basic team, working on UI, deployment, and compiler issues.  In 2005, he worked his way up to becoming Development Manager of the VB Team, but after a couple years of that,  VB finally managed to trade him to the central engineering team in exchange for a couple of older laptop computers.  Since then, Matt’s been driving the central engineering processes for the Visual Studio and .NET teams, although he still finds time to occasionally write an article for the VB Blog, which he enjoys doing tremendously.

Calvin Hsia  
On my first computer with 4K Ram, I toggled in the bootstrap loader in binary using the front panel switches. A decade later, my first PC had 256k RAM, two 5 ¼” floppy drives, and no monitor. Another decade later, I was one of the first Microsoft MVPs in 1992. I contracted with Microsoft to work on FoxPro, using a machine with 1Meg of RAM. I currently work on the VB team, and my phone has almost as much memory as my desktop machine.

Bill Horst  
Bill Horst is a part of the VB IDE Test Team.  He primarily works on VB Debugging, and has also worked a fair amount with VB LINQ and the various VB Editor features.  Bill has been at Microsoft since 2003.

Young Joo  
Young Joo works as a Program Manager of Visual Basic Team at Microsoft.  He and his team are responsible for various design time data tools available in Visual Studio such as the Dataset Designer, Data Source Configuration Wizard, Query Designer and Data Explorer.  Young also owns the O/R Designer which helps users create and manipulate LINQ To SQL classes visually.  The O/R Designer is a part of Visual Studio Orcas and will be a big driver to increase the adoption of LINQ To SQL technology.  Prior to joining Microsoft, Young Joo led a team of developers and QA analysts as the Executive Director of Development at The Princeton Review, the leading test preparation provider in US.  His team was responsible for building both high traffic consumer web site as well as subscription based enrollment management web application which were sold to universities and colleges around the world.

Milind Lele
Milind Lele is a Program Manager on the Visual Basic team at Microsoft. He and his team are responsible for various aspects of data tools, including the experience for local database applications as well as the sync designer. He has been with Microsoft for over six years working on different data features such as the SQLCLR projects, query designer and data designer extensibility and Visual FoxPro. Prior to Microsoft he worked in various roles from technical support analyst to lead developer to project manager in areas of software security, antivirus software and enterprise application frameworks.