John Callaway


About John Callaway

An International Speaker, Author, and Microsoft MVP, John has been a professional developer since 1999. He has focused primarily on web technologies and currently focuses on C# and .NET Core in Azure. Clean code and professionalism are particularly important to him, as well as mentoring and teaching others what he has learned along the way.

  Ben Watson joined Microsoft in 2008. As a core developer of their online platform, he has helped build one of the world’s leading .NET-based, high-performance server platforms, handling high-volume, low-latency requests that power applications like Bing, Cortana, Office, Windows, and more. He is passionate about performance and spends much […]

Episode 007 – High Performance .NET with Ben Watson


  Chad Campbell is an independent software consultant, five-time Microsoft MVP, author and mentor. He holds a BS degree from Purdue University where he focused his studies on computer science and psychology. Chad has been developing enterprise level apps with a variety of technologies since 1999. Chad blogs has created […]

Episode 006 – Vue.js with Chad Campbell


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  In this episode we speak with Bryan Soltis of Kentico. For topics we focus on Azure Search and Azure Functions. Bryan Soltis is a Technical Evangelist at Kentico and an avid .NET developer. With nearly 20 years of web development experience, Bryan has completed projects for Microsoft, IMG, HP, […]

Episode 003 – Azure fun with Bryan Soltis




  Welcome to the first ever episode of The 6 Figure Developer Podcast. For the first episode Clayton and John sit down with CEO and Co-founder of Kaizen Softworks, Fabián Fernández. In addition to his role at Kaizen Softworks Fabián is also Co-founder and co-organizer of .NET Conf UY in […]

Episode 001 – Fabián Fernández





When Casals (then age 93) was asked why he continued to practice the cello three hours a day, he replied, “I’m beginning to notice some improvement.” Much of what we do as software developers requires an immense amount of knowledge and training. We certainly weren’t born knowing how to program. […]

Even Doctors Call it Practice


I’ve never been much of a reader. I’ve always preferred to wait for the movie. If I could get away with CliffsNotes in school I would. However, reading technical books and those that might help me develop and further my career have been a recent exception. I can’t get enough […]

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