About Us

Chris is the Co-founder, Administrator, Architect, Chief Editor and Shameless Hack who wrote and runs The Code Project. He's been programming since 1988 while pretending to be, in various guises, an astrophysicist, mathematician, physicist, hydrologist, geomorphologist, defence intelligence researcher and then, when all that got a bit rough on the nerves, a web developer. He is a Microsoft Visual C++ MVP both globally and for Canada locally.

His programming experience includes C/C++, C#, SQL, MFC, ASP, ASP.NET, and far, far too much FORTRAN. He has worked on PocketPCs, AIX mainframes, Sun workstations, and a CRAY YMP C90 behemoth but finds notebooks take up less desk space.

He dodges, he weaves, and he never gets enough sleep. He is kind to small animals.

Chris was born and bred in Australia but splits his time between Toronto and Melbourne, depending on the weather. For relaxation he is into road cycling, snowboarding, rock climbing, and storm chasing.

I direct The Code Project's business activities, such as strategic direction, partnerships, and vendor relations. I started photo-etching circuit boards when I was 8, and at 11 was haunting the halls and computer science labs at the local college so much that I was invited by Professor Wayne Ayott to audit his software and hardware design courses.

Over my career I have used C# , C++, Win32, MFC, Assembler, Basic, and Clipper, on applications for the military, commercial ventures, medical research and the labour movement. Through my medical informatics work I came to know what real-time and mission-critical really mean… just try being part of the critical path when a woman goes into labor. 

I have been honoured to receive many business, industry and leadership awards including being named an Exceptional Young Entrepreneur (Profit Magazine) and to the list of Who's Who in Canadian Business. The companies I started have been recognized as the Fastest Growing companies in Canada (Profit Magazine), as the Fastest Growing North American Technology Companies (Deloitte & Touché) and named as a Top 100 Innovator and Leader by SDTimes in every year from 2003 to 2008.

Here's my professional profile on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidcunningham

In 2007 Microsoft acquired technology from one of my companies, Dundas Data Visualization, for inclusion in SQL Server 2008.

I live in Toronto and enjoy photography, scuba, food, riding my Honda Nighthawk motorcycle, and am trying to learn enough about wine to not be completely lost with a wine list in my hands. I find myself spending a lot of time these days thinking about the world our children will inherit, and so have been paying a lot of attention to alternative energy (wind, solar), robotics, education and (for the first time in my life) politics.

Matthew works on improving the performance and experience of the Code Project site for users, clients, and administrators.

Matthew has more years of software develeopment, QA and architecture experience under his belt than he likes to admit. He graduated from the University of Waterloo with a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering. He started out developing micro-processor based hardware and software including compilers and operating systems.
His current focus is on .NET web development including jQuery, Webforms, MVC, AJAX, and patterns and practices for creating better websites.
He is the author of the Munq IOC, the fastest ASP.NET focused IOC Container.
His non-programming passions include golf, pool, curling, reading and building stuff for the house.

With over a decade of experience, Bethany is a talented marketing and sales leader with deep industry knowledge. As a passionate communicator she has proven experience crafting strategies and plans that support the achievement of company objectives from initial conception through full execution. She applies outstanding interpersonal skills in building strong relationships with key business partners, customers, and colleagues.

Throughout her career she has been fortunate to have her hands in every facet of the businesses she’s been part of and enjoys forging new relationships with her clients and colleagues.

Bethany is thrilled to be part of the Developer Media family helping her clients maximize their marketing goals.

As Sales Project Manager, Darrah puts her expert cat-herding skills to the test on a daily basis. She loves coordinating projects, streamlining processes, and crossing items off her never-ending to-do list.

When not at work, Darrah enjoys swimming, biking, running, and spending time with her family.

Deeksha got her Master's degree in Information Systems and learnt how to program in HTML, C++, SQL, Java and JavaScript. She has worked in the capacity of Systems Operator, Systems Administrator, and Project Manager during which she interacted a lot with professional programmers.

Editing articles written by smart and experienced programmers on The Code Project is a job she loves and it keeps her updated on the latest technologies.

She has lived in four countries in the last 10 years and has a flair for learning new languages (not the programming ones).
She enjoys playing with her 3-year old son, travelling and listening to music.

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In my role as Advertising Operations Manager I have the opportunity to work closely with all of our campaigns and help our advertisers meet their goals.

Prior to joining Developer Media I worked in the media/print industry before making the switch to online advertising in 2009.

When I’m not at work I enjoy spending time with my family and sailing on Lake Ontario when the weather permits!

Kent Sharkey does not really exist. He is a figment of Chris' imagination.

Kent Sharkey -- the official mythical beast of CodeProject.com.

I am an eccentric genius, at least I tell everyone I am a genius to justify my eccentricity. I have been working with the developer community since 1997, when I started at FTP selling advertising space in Visual Basic Programmer’s Journal which is now Visual Studio Magazine (I know, I know…but somebody has to do the dirty work so we can deliver all this great content to you).

After nine years of service at my former company I took a year off and started my own business www.novatopilates.com (a Pilates studio) and realized that I absolutely never want to run my own business again….ever. Happily, I landed at CodeProject which is now part of DeveloperMedia and hope to continue selling enough ads so that we can buy shiny new toys for the sites (see server farm at the bottom of the page).

I am an experienced graphic designer and web developer perfectly skilled in dealing with most of graphic editors and web coding standards.

I came a long way throughout those years. I started from simple flayers, baby pages, flash animations to corporate identity, campagin projects, e-commerce, e-magazines and script powered, user friendly, modern, proper websites.

Enjoing what I do, keeping head high and looking forward to challange the unknown of the web development world and get that lot

Michele started her career as editor and publisher of an audio magazine, then made the move to the fledgling digital photography industry at a time when it took the better part of a day to upload a photo. From there she moved into high tech advertising and has spent the past 10 years representing IT and developer websites, helping companies connect with their customers and grow their businesses.

When she’s not selling advertising (which really is the best job ever!), she enjoys running through her neighborhood (for fun, not after or away from anyone) and practicing yoga. She also harbors a secret desire to be a park ranger!

I spent 5 years working for Ottawa startups before returning home to Toronto and landing at CodeProject.

I'm a .NET and JavaScript developer by day, but in the evening you'll often find me cooking up projects in Ruby, Haskell, Clojure, Elixir, and F#.

With some 20 years of experience leading corporate marketing and community building for multimillion-dollar international organizations, Sara is a dynamic leader with outstanding interpersonal skills. A respected influencer within the industries she contributes, she has a proven track record of conceptualizing and orchestrating campaigns that evolve the brand and positively impact the company’s image and revenue.

Over the years, she has run marketing departments (both large and small), built community programs from the ground up, created partner programs, and acted as a brand ambassador and spokesperson for various organizations.

Currently, Sara is leveraging her experience in the developer marketing space to help her clients achieve and exceed their goals through partnership with Developer Media.

Sara was recently interviewed by Locassa as part of the Expert Interview program. You can read what she had to say about marketing to developers and the current state of the industry here.

Sean Ewington is the Content Manager for CodeProject.

His background in programming is primarily C++ and HTML, but has experience in other, "unsavoury" languages.

He loves movies, and likes to say "inconceivable" often, even if it does not mean what he thinks it means.

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