
Jon Skeet
Senior Software engineer at Google
Jon is a Senior Software Engineer with Google, working in the London office. He has a keen interest in C# and also in date/time APIs. He won the Microsoft MVP award several times.
Jon’s interest in C# began in 2002 and until the today he’s the author of 3 books:
- C# in Depth (4th edition came out in 2019)
- Real-World Functional Programming: With Examples in F# and C#
- Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs: How to make good programming decisions
He joined Stack Overflow on September 26th 2008, and in just a few months he ended up as the “top user” (in terms of reputation) and stayed there ever since.
Jon is active in both Java and C# questions (the two most popular tags) and has spent the previous 10 years posting on newsgroups, which helped greatly in terms of communication skills.
The first edition of his C# book (C# in Depth) was published April 2008 and for quite a while he’s been giving talks at international conferences and user groups.