I started my career when I was still in university. I started a company named Sitechno that did webapplications and custom solutions. The last few years, I’ve been hired as a consultant on some big projects.
The role I was given on my last project, allowed me to do some crazy cool stuff, using nHibernate and winforms. I was able to push WCF, WF and WPF into a big client/server application, and had great success with it. We reformed a monolithic data-oriented application into a domain-oriented loosely coupled application.

It’s easy enough to find new projects, but the market for the cutting edge technologies is not very big

When I was asked to join Microsoft, my main attraction to the offer was the opportunity to work on cutting edge technology with a group of passionate people. When I talked Microsofties on the Redmond campus, it became clear that they could certainly offer just that.

I was torn between working on EF (which, I’ve been very involved with lately) and on Silverlight.
In the end, Silverlight won, because I strongly believe it to be the strongest contender in the client space, there is an interesting ‘war’ going on right now, and I have really enjoyed working with the WPF-framework in the past. I was torn by the decision because whatever choice I made, I knew that a great opportunity would be lost.

We will be heading to Vancouver, Canada in September and I will work for Microsoft Canada for a year. After that, I will be allowed to work in the U.S.A. and we will move to Redmond.

You can not believe how excited I am about this opportunity. I will be working for Shawn Burke on Silverlight Controls. I’m not sure yet who else is working on the team, but I believe/hope I’ll be working with David, Ted, Kirti and Jeff.

As for EFContrib: although I’m dedicated to it, I’m having a hard time finding the time to work on it. Also, since version 2.0 of EF will feature some nice Poco capabilities. So, I’m not sure if people are waiting for the solution. It would be nice to make it work with SL though! So, if I find the time, or get lots of mail of people wanting me to finish it properly, I’ll work on it some more.