Marcel is the co-founder and CTO of Xpirit, a high-end consulting firm based in Hilversum, Netherlands. Marcel spends most of his time looking at how new emerging technologies, a shift in mindset, and a new way of work, can help organizations get software in production faster. Marcel loves to learn new technologies and teach others what he has learned. Marcel is a frequent speaker at leading industry conferences. He has delivered sessions at events like Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft //Build, NDC, Visual Studio Live!, Devintersection, and Techorama to name a few. In his spare time, he builds online courses for Pluralsight. Marcel has been awarded by Microsoft the Microsoft ALM MVP award for more than ten consecutive years and he is a Microsoft Regional Director since 2008. You can always contact him to talk on subjects like DevOps, ALM, Cloud Computing, Microservices, Mobile Development, Docker, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.