About us

The company devcoach® was founded in May 2007 by Michael Willers and Daniel Fisher with the intention of using their combined know-how to support customers on their IT projects.

Michael Willers

Michael Willers is a co-founder of devcoach® (www.devcoach.biz), a company that supports and accompanies customers in projects with the Microsoft® .NET platform all through from architecture to deployment.

He has a strong emphasis on service-orientation (SOA), agile methodologies and processes and security. Michael is a recognized expert in the SOA-field and plans and realizes distributed systems on the Microsoft platform since many years.

He is one of the early Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) experts and was a member of the technical adoption program for the Microsoft Corporation. For the federal office for security in information technology of the German government he and Daniel Fisher have created a security analysis and written practice-proven guidelines for the daily work with WCF. As experts for the topic “SOA with .NET” they traveled through Europe to discuss the requirements of architects from all over the world and help them implement solutions.

Michael is developing software since 1995 (since 1999 on the .NET Platform) and has worked several years on projects as a developer, architect, project lead and consultant for insurance companies, distributors, mobile communications hardware, construction supplies and has been a technical consultant for Microsoft Germany.

He is actively contributing to the software developer community as co-founder of JustCommunity e.V. (www.justcommunity.de), organizer of the biggest regional community event, and mentor with his experiences as founder of the MSDN TechTalk series.

Daniel Fisher

Daniel Fisher is a co-founder of devcoach® (www.devcoach.biz), a company that supports and accompanies customers in projects with the Microsoft® .NET platform all through from architecture to deployment.

He has a strong emphasis on service-orientation (SOA), agile methodologies and processes, the web and data access. Daniel is a recognized expert in the SOA-field and plans and realizes distributed systems on the Microsoft platform since many years.

He is one of the early Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) experts and was a member of the technical adoption program for the Microsoft Corporation. For the federal office for security in information technology of the German government he and Michael Willers have created a security analysis and written practice-proven guidelines for the daily work with WCF. As experts for the topic “SOA with .NET” they traveled through Europe to discuss the requirements of architects from all over the world and help them implement solutions.

Daniel is developing software since 1995 (since 1999 on the .NET platform) and has worked several years on projects as a developer, architect, project lead and consultant for insurance companies, distributors, mobile communications hardware, construction supplies and various other companies of different branches.

He is actively contributing to the software developer community as user group lead (www.netug-niederrhein.de) and chair-man of JustCommunity e.V. (www.justcommunity.de), organizer of the biggest regional community event (www.nrwconf.de).

You can read his blog on lennybacon.com.