Marcel de Vries 

Meet Marcel de Vries, trainer at Xebia Academy. Marcel is a certified Microsoft trainer and gives training such as Continuous Delivery courses on behalf of Xebia.

Marcel spends most of his time helping organizations build Enterprise Applications and implementing Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) practices and tooling. 

Marcel works for a new startup company called Xpirit that provides premium consulting services on ALM, Cloud, enterprise mobility and Security. His job title there is Chief Technical Manager (CTO). As CTO Marcel spends most of his time looking at how new emerging technologies can help organizations build better quality software and do this more productively. 

Marcel has a passion for learning new technologies and teaching the things he learned on the way when applying technology to solve business problems. And works as a consultant in the field of Application Lifecycle Management, Cloud application architectures and Cross platform Enterprise Mobile app development. 

He writes for websites and magazines like MSDN, The Architecture journal and local magazines like SDN Magazine. Marcel frequently speaks at industry conferences like Microsoft TechDays, Visual Studio Live!, Microsoft Tech Ed and local user group events. And he also spends a lot of time teaching topics like Visual Studio ALM, Windows Workflow Foundation, Xamarin Mobile app development and Web development. 

In his spare time, he is also an author of online courses at Pluralsight. 

Marcel is awarded by Microsoft the Microsoft ALM MVP award and is also a MicrosoftRegional Director. 

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