Eric Zinda is a Distinguished Engineer who joined Microsoft in 1988 as a Product Support engineer in the US and France.  He started his career on the product side with Microsoft Access 1.0 in 1992.  Since then, he's focused on products and technologies that center on platforms and application development: Microsoft Access 1.0 and 2.0, Visual Interdev 1.0, .Net Framework 1.0-3.0, Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation, and he spent a few years in the middle working on MoneyCentral.com in MSN to understand the services side of what Microsoft does. 

Zinda is currently working on Project “Oslo”, whose goal is to make model-driven applications mainstream, by providing a platform for domain-specific models and tools.   Most recently, he has been working on applying the Oslo Modeling platform to end-to-end application development.

Zinda first learned to program using Basic on a Tektronix 4051.  He has been hooked ever since.