Edward Tanguay

Edward Tanguay grew up in Colorado, USA, where he wrote his first computer program on an Apple II Plus in 1983. Shortly after that, he and his brother founded a software startup, where Edward programmed in dBase II and Clipper for clients in the hospital and investment bank industries. When their successful company was acquired by a consulting firm, Edward decided to pursue his passions and dreams, i.e. study philosophy, learn foreign languages, and live and work in Europe!

Thanks to the excitement of the World Wide Web, Edward got back into programming in the 1990s, this time focusing on database-driven web applications based on CGI/Perl, HTML, and JavaScript. Just as the dot-com boom got underway, he began working for startup companies in Berlin, where he improved his programming skills and adapted them to the web by learning PHP/MySQL, ASP/Access, and later XML/XSLT. At the same time, he held IT workshops at the Berlin-based Humboldt University, Free University, and Technical University and wrote online articles on upcoming technology for webdevelopersjournal.com.

In 2002, he worked as a consultant for Microsoft Germany and gained experience working in large teams on enterprise projects, where he acquired knowledge of the .NET platform, C#, and SQL Server as well as the intricacies of object-oriented programming and design.