Oren is the founder and CEO of Hibernating Rhinos, with experience spanning over 15 years in development. He is a frequent blogger at http://ayende.com/blog/ under the pseudonym Ayende Rahien, where he focuses on the Microsoft .NET ecosystem, which earned him recognition and awards as Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional since 2007.

Oren is an internationally acclaimed presenter and you can catch him speaking at DevTech, JAOO, QCon, Oredev, NDC, Yow! and Progressive.NET conferences.

Oren shares his extensive knowledge when speaking at conferences and through his written works, such as "DSLs in Boo: Domain Specific Languages in .NET", published by Manning (http://manning.com/rahien/) and recently through his book: "Inside RavenDB".

Professionally, Oren remains dedicated and focused on architecture and best practices that promote quality software and zero-friction development. In his personal life, Oren is an avid reader who is now completely captivated by his personal “novel”, namely his daughter who was born in the Spring of 2015.