Chris Patterson is an Enterprise Software Architect, the founder of Loosely Coupled, LLC, and the author of MassTransit, an open-source distributed application framework for building message-based applications. Before starting his own company, Chris spent 24 years leading the architecture and development of multiple platforms and services in a Fortune 10 company leveraging a broad range of technologies.

Chris is a multi-year Microsoft MVP award recipient and regularly produces software development-related content on YouTube.