Bart is a web and database performance consultant specialising in .NET, SQL Server, and JavaScript across both desktop and mobile platforms.
He is the author and main contributor of the
Dapper.SimpleLoad and
Dapper.SimpleSave extensions for StackExchange's
Dapper microORM, both of which are available on
Nuget.
Formerly he spent almost 10 years at
Red Gate Software, with several years in the company's .NET Developer Tools division leading the development team that built
ANTS Performance Profiler (Red Gate's .NET and SQL Server performance profiling tool), and
ANTS Memory Profiler (their .NET memory profiler). He also lead development of well known tools such as
SQL Prompt and
.NET Reflector.
He can be found at
www.bartread.com, and maintains a free online games site at
arcade.ly, where he hosts HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS versions of classic arcade games such as Star Castle (his version is called
Star Citadel) that he uses to illustrate principles of high performance client-side development.