Most Outstanding SA of the Year
Congratulations to Nikita Polyakov!! Nikita went above and beyond the call of duty as a Student Ambassador this year. Working with his ADE Brandon McMillon, regional developer evangelists Joe Healy and Russ Fustino, and the DPE East Region manager Kim Matlock, Nikita extended his reach to not only the University of South Florida, but branched out into the Florida developer community as well as schools in central and southern Florida. Besides talks into the community at large to 100s of developers and students, he taught an extracurricular course to a group of students to cover important web development topics not covered in the USF classroom. Nikita also put to rest a 3-year-old infrastructure problem relating to MSDNAA that has plagued the USF CIS department. Nikita volunteered for this assignment even after many in the department had written it off as ‘unsolvable’.