Xavier Fischer is a .NET Principal Software Engineer at EDB on the connectors team, overseeing the EDB .NET Connector. Xavier is passionate about .NET and open source. He is the co-maintainer of the GeoJSON.Net repository, created the DEM.Net Elevation API, and has contributed to various open source projects. 

Xavier has been working on Microsoft technologies for more than twenty years. Previously, he worked in the software hosting industry, and freelanced as a GIS developer on .NET and MSSQL for ten years. He has crafted GIS applications and developer tools and is certified as a Microsoft Professional Developer and Microsoft Certified Database Developer. Xavier is based in France, and is a father of two children. In his free time he is involved in visual arts, music, lighting and theatre.