Matt Perdeck has over 20 years experience developing high-performance software systems, ranging from the largest ATM network in the Netherlands to embedded software in advanced Wide Area Networks. He has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Technology Twente, the Netherlands, and an M.B.A. from the University of Western Australia and Copenhagen Business School. He has worked in Australia, the Netherlands, Slovakia, and Thailand. He has extensive .NET and SQL Server development experience and has written several .NET articles. As an old-school software engineer, he is passionate about making things faster, simpler, and more efficiently.