Technology Evangelist / Associate Professor
Microsoft / HSE / MAI

Dmitry Soshnikov is a Technology Evangelist at Microsoft Russia, whose main objective is to unleash the beauty and simplicity of using Microsoft technologies and .NET platform for both university studies and for the real world projects. In addition to his work at Microsoft, Dmitry is also an Associate Professor at Moscow Aviation Institute and Higher School of Economics. He has a PhD on Distributed Intelligent Systems, and has more than 60 publications in the area, among which a popular book “Funictional Programming using F#” (the first book on F# language from the Russian author), textbook “Logic Programming Paradigm”. He is a member of Russian Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Another Dmitry’s interest is involving children into creative activities using computers: he is an advocate of using Microsoft technologies for that, being a teacher of JUNIO-R child camp, as well as invited speaker at Computeria. He also likes and practices micromagic and modern IT-based magic.