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Interview with a Microsoft Integration MVP - Leonid Ganeline

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We're continuing our Monday series, "Interview with a TechNet Wiki Author!" Today's author is Leonid Ganeline!

Leonid Ganeline is a Microsoft Integration MVP since 2007 and lives in Vancouver, Canada.

My favorite quote of the interview I have done with Leonid is:

"But the most important that your goal is not be a MVP, but to share knowledge and experience and to help people with your knowledge."

Before we start with the interview here is a picture of Leonid with some of his Integration MVP buddies. We as integration MVP's all love Leonid!

Leonid (far right) and his Integration buddies at the MVP Summit 2013.

So now to the interview with Leonid.

  • Who are you, and what do you do?

I am a programmer and am graduated from the Samara State Aerospace University. Hope one of my program is still working in space. I'm doing system integration using BizTalk Server for more than 10 years now. I'm running in the summer and skiing in winter after doing integration.

  • What do you do with TechNet Wiki, and how does that fit into the rest of your job?

If I investigate some interesting stuff, I put it into Wiki to share it. It could be code, it could be information or just my thoughts. I follow a simple principle, if I spent time and got an information which cannot be googled out of Internet, it will be original, unknown to date I will put it in a Wiki. If I develop something and reuse it several times in different situations, it is a good candidate to share, like the BizTalk Application Naming Conventions article. Next time, when I reuse it, it would be upgraded with my new experience.

  • How did you become an MVP? Do you have any suggestions for other community members who hope to eventually become MVPs?

I was an active participant in the BizTalk news (now they are moved to the MSDN Forums) and started couple BizTalk blogs (one of them on Russian). There were several interesting discussions and articles and then Microsoft decided to award me with the MVP status in 2007. I am MVP since 2007. My suggestion is you have to be persistent. If you are answering in the forums or blogging than there should be dozens articles and answers after a couple of years. Just a couple of months is not enough. But the most important that your goal is not be a MVP, but to share knowledge and experience and to help people with your knowledge.

  • What are your favorite articles you’ve contributed?
  1. BizTalk Application Naming Conventions - is the most popular article. I saw it as a part of documentation in several BizTalk implementations. Sometimes there was my name as an author. :)
  2. BizTalk: Instance Subscriptions and Convoys: Details - it was a result of research in big project with elaborate routing.
  3. BizTalk: Advanced Interview Questions - the most fun article for experienced BizTalk developers and architects.
  4. BizTalk Integration Development Architecture - this was a recent article on the Microsoft MVP blog.
  • Do you have any tips for new Wiki contributors?

Wiki is the quintessence of knowledge, like a dictionary. I like it when the wiki is laconic and keeps only important information. But Wiki is not exactly a dictionary article. I enjoy it when a Wiki is informal, or controversial, or raise some generic questions.

Tips: Compare systems and applications, made performance measurements and labs, use microscope to hammer nails, - it would be entertaining and authentic.

Do you have a question for Lenonid Ganeline? Leave a comment!

Steef-Jan (Blog, Wiki, Twitter, Profile)

Comments

  • Anonymous
    October 20, 2013
    wow. excellent team.

  • Anonymous
    October 20, 2013
    Nice pic with great MVPs team (Nino Crudele, Sandro Pereira, Kent Weare, SteefJan , Stephen W. Thomas & Leonid Ganeline) and excellent contributors to Biztalk Community.

  • Anonymous
    October 21, 2013
    Leonid, Do you have any best practices you use for inputting well-formatted code? Thank you for all your contributions!

  • Anonymous
    October 21, 2013
    Steef-Jan, I added a link to Leonid's profile. Thanks! That way people can see more of his great contributions! (Also it makes it easier for us to find the profiles of our top contributors.) =^)

  • Anonymous
    October 21, 2013
    Ed, If you are asking about code in VS, I use the ReSharper of Jetbrains. It keeps all code in consistent format. Sometimes it simplifies ans cleans up the code in such a great way it lost half of lines.

  • Anonymous
    October 21, 2013
    "But the most important that your goal is not be a MVP, but to share knowledge and experience and to help people with your knowledge." - very well said and your articles do reflect that !!!!!!! Thanks for your contributions!!!!!

  • Anonymous
    October 22, 2013
    Looking good

  • Anonymous
    October 23, 2013
    Thanks for the comments. Leonid and other the MVP's will be present during the MVP Summit and BizTalk Summit in November.

  • Anonymous
    October 23, 2013
    @Steef : Do BizTalk summit organised in India also?

  • Anonymous
    October 23, 2013
    BizTalk Summit 2012 and 2013 are both organized and hosted in the US. This year a follow up of the 2012 Summit took place in Europe. Representatives of the Microsoft Product Group and Microsoft Integration MVP's presented in Amsterdam, London and Stockholm. See also the BizTalk Server 2013 blog post: soa-thoughts.blogspot.nl/.../biztalk-summit-2013.html

  • Anonymous
    November 07, 2013
    Leonid, Would you like to join the Advisory Board? You would join Sandro, Tord, and Steef-Jan in the Integration area: social.technet.microsoft.com/.../2495.technet-wiki-advisory-board.aspx Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    December 01, 2013
    Leonid, I added you here: social.technet.microsoft.com/.../2495.technet-wiki-advisory-board.aspx Thanks! And thanks to Steef-Jan for hosting this interview!

  • Anonymous
    April 25, 2014
    congratulations!!!

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2014
    Congratulations!! Keep doing the good work Leonid :)