Johann Cooper is an integration specialist who currently holds the role of a principal integration consultant at Datacom, New Zealand, and focuses on Microsoft Stack. He is well-versed with the usage of BizTalk Server, WCF, and RESTful services. He recently delved into the cloud space and successfully delivered projects that leverage the Microsoft Azure platform. He is a keen advocate of following and defining best practices, and is a big believer in automated testing. He is the creator and curator of the BizTalk BRE Pipeline Framework CodePlex project, the author of the blog Adventures inside the Message Box, and is the author of the whitepaper The A-Y of running BizTalk Server in Microsoft Azure. He is also part of the Microsoft P-TSP program that is tasked with the goal of promoting the usage of BizTalk Server and the Microsoft Azure platform in New Zealand.