![Robert Pickering [MVP]](http://media.linkedin.com/mpr/mpr/shrink_80_80/p/1/000/00a/312/39182db.jpg)
.NET Architect at ALTI
Paris Area, France
![Robert Pickering [MVP]](http://media.linkedin.com/mpr/mpr/shrink_80_80/p/1/000/00a/312/39182db.jpg)
.NET Architect at ALTI
Paris Area, France
Robert is an experienced software engineer, published technical author and community leader. In his 10 year career he has participated in a wide range of projects building large, scalable and fault tolerant systems on the Microsoft .NET platform. He has experience in both consulting and working as an engineer for a software house. As a Microsoft MVP he is acknowledged as a community leader and a world class expert on F#. The F# language is a functional programming language for the .NET framework and an innovative new feature in Visual Studio 2010. He has been invited to speak at prestigious events such as Microsoft TechEd, JAOO, TechDays Paris and has been involved in organizing conferences as track lead for events such as Functional Programming eXchange, London and organizes the ALT.NET community meetings in Paris. Has also appeared in podcast and screen casts such as dnrtv.com and hanselminutes.com. The second edition of his book Beginning F# was published in December 2009 by a-press.