Hey everyone,

Recently Stratis announced their partnership with C# Corner, which you can read about here.

I am really excited about this partnership and wanted to share my insights with you.

Who is C# Corner?

C# Corner is the ‘LARGEST’ global community of C# Developers. They are headquartered in Philadelphia (USA) and they have a global community of 3 million members worldwide.

C# Corner is founded by Mahesh Chand, the latest addition to the Stratis team.

C# Corner has 5 million monthly visitors publishing the latest news and content related to C# and .NET development.

C# Corner has over 35 local user groups in various cities around the globe who organize a number of events and conferences within the USA and India.

C# Corner has a C# Annual Conference, which is considered as one of the largest technical conferences for software professionals in India.

Who is Mahesh Chand?

Mahesh is a Software Solutions Architect, Technical Author, 12-time Microsoft MVP and Founder of C# Corner (www.c-sharpcorner.com), one of the most popular online communities for Microsoft developers and programmers. Holding a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Physics and a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mahesh has written half a dozen books with publishers including Addison-Wesley and Apress. As an independent Software Developer and Architect, he has 18 years of experience building solutions for such industries as Financial & Banking, Healthcare, Biological & Pharmaceutical, Education, Engineering & Architectural, Imaging and Construction. Some of the companies Mahesh has worked with include Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Adidas, McGraw-Hill, Unisys, Exelon, Juniper, PMI and University of Pennsylvania Hospital.

Mahesh is the latest addition to team Stratis, you can find the announcement over here. Mahesh will assist Stratis in building strong relationships with enterprises and developer adoption of the Stratis platform.

“I am thrilled to be a part of the Stratis team. I have been watching Stratis since its inception and I really like the team and where this community is heading. Stratis is a developer-first community-first company and I really like that. Being a founder of C# Corner, my focus has always been developers and how to make their lives better. I believe Stratis brings the same values and ethics to the community.” said Mahesh Chand.

What is the C# Annual Conference?

C# Corner has an Annual conference, which is considered as one of the largest technical conferences for software professionals in India. The C# Corner Annual Conference spreads across three days of extensive learning with back-to-back sessions on the latest and future-oriented technologies in several parallel tracks. It’s a stage where many of Microsoft’s MVPs are speaking and attending.

This year’s Annual Conference is from April 13–15 in Delhi, India and Stratis is a ‘Diamond Sponsor’.

On this huge event, some of the best and brightest in the world will be the Keynote Speakers.

Why should you be excited about this?

The entirety of Stratis codebase is developed in the programming language, C#, and based on the most secure blockchain platform to date, Bitcoin. C# is one of the most widely used programming languages in the world and is heavily employed by a lot of in-house- developers at huge enterprises. These are the businesses Stratis is actively looking out for. Stratis will help by allowing businesses (of any shape and size) to easily implement Blockchain as a Service (BaaS), enabling them to build upon their C# legacy code, instead of needing to completely replace it.

So what does this mean? Well the fact that C# is one of the most widely used programming languages in the world and C# Corner is the largest global community of C# developers should give you a clue.. As we know blockchain is still in the early stages of adoption, a lot of developers and companies still have not heard about blockchain and it’s endless possibilities. With the Stratis blockchain coming to completion and with an audience of millions of C# developers I like to think the sky is the limit. All these C# developers have the chance to learn more about blockchain. How will they do this? Through Stratis.. Imagine if only 1% of these developers starts playing/developing on the Stratis blockchain..

Another reason is the enterprise side of C#. Many larger enterprises have a lot of in-house developers. We need people to connect us to them, next to the team we have, which already has a background with Microsoft, we know have Mahesh Chand on board.

And last but not least, the C# Annual Conference. It’s a stage where many of Microsoft MVPs are speaking and attending. And also lots and lots of C# developers will be attending. There will also be a number of key speakers from Stratis at the conference.

I see all of these things as little seeds that are planted, seeds that will turn into fruit plants, which later on Stratis will pick the fruits of. Stratis is a project that is on course to become a main player in this new world and has the intention to stay here for the decades to come instead of just being there for the short-term.

Thanks for reading!

Khilone, investor of Stratis Platform, long term community member and owner of https://twitter.com/Khil0ne and writer of the weekly Stratis blogs.