User:Nberardi

Nick Berardi is the owner of Managed Fusion (www.managedfusion.com), a U.S.-based company that specializes in the fields of software architecture / development, usability engineering, and cloud-based computing initiatives with a strong focus on .NET, the Web, SEO, SEM, and Microsoft technologies.

In his spare time, of which there is very little, he writes on his blog, Coder Journal (www.coderjournal.com), about all things that interest him. Topics include, but are not limited to, ASP.NET MVC, cloud computing, social networking, scalable computing, software usability, and anything that may intrigue or peak his interest on any given day. He also does a lot of public speaking on and evangelizing of Microsoft software, specifically regarding ASP.NET and other .NET based web technologies such as Silverlight and WCF. He has been working with the .NET Framework since the beta, creating and developing all types of applications including MVC, Silverlight, WCF, WPF, Web Forms, Windows Forms, Windows Services, and various types of back office applications.

He is also the sole developer of the Managed Fusion Rewriter and Reverse Proxy (http://urlrewriter.codeplex.com), which is a .NET based URL rewriter and reverse proxy for IIS 6 and IIS 7 based off of the syntax made popular by the Apache mod_rewrite module. His rewriter is currently deployed on everything from small, home-based servers running Microsoft Home Server to very large government websites running high-access-high-availability applications.