Chaitra Nagraj
Intel Technologies

Chaitra is an MVP of ASP/ASP.Net. She works for Intel Technologies, Bangalore. Chaitra is involved with B.NET and SQLBANG user groups. She is a regular speaker at these user groups. She also speaks at various community launch events.She expertises in ASP.Net, WebServices and TFS. Chaitra has also done a few technical msdn recordings for Microsoft. She also contributes to Online .Net forums. She blogs at http://chaitranagaraj.spaces.live.com/

Harish Ranganathan
Web Developer Evangelist - Microsoft

Harish, a Web Developer Evangelist, helps companies and enterprises realize business value in adopting the latest Microsoft Next Web Technologies, helping them address their real world challenges over web. Harish has been a Technology Specialist in ASP.NET and other web technologies. You can find a lot of his contributions in various technology forums. He is passionate about technology in general and the application of software to address real world problems & challenges in particular.

Karthik Bharathy
Program Manager – Microsoft

Karthik is a Program Manager in the SQL Server Manageability group in India Development Center (Hyderabad). His passion for technology started since the glorious days of ZX Spectrum where BASIC programming was the order of the day. He is passionate about SQL Server and drives the security features in the manageability space most notably Auditing. He has presented on various occasions including SQL Heroes Happen Here launch and UG meet at Hyderabad

Kuldeep Chauhan
Global Services - Microsoft

Kuldeep is a Database & BI Consultant in Microsoft Global Services India (MGSI), Hyderabad. He has around 9+ years of IT experience, he primarily do consulting on complex and critical customer engagements based on Microsoft SQL Server Database & BI technologies. He is a Database & BI Area Subject Matter Expert (SME) of MGSI Asia pacific region.  He is also an active contributor to various public forums and events like TechMela, SQLSchool & SQLFest and is a certified MCSE, MCDBA, MCTS, and MCITP. You can read his blogs at -http://blogs.msdn.com/sqllive 

L Srividya
Architect Advisor - Microsoft

Srividya works as an Architect Advisor with Microsoft India, working closely with Microsoft’s SI partners. In her current role as Architect Evangelist, she engages with the partners in activities involving readiness, skilling, architect focus, solution development, while also passionately enlightening the software community on Microsoft product, specifically in the database and Business Intelligence space.

She is a certified PMP and holds certifications from Microsoft in areas of .Net and SQL Server.

Nirmal Kohli
Global Services - Microsoft

Nirmal is a Associate Consultant (Database & BI) in Microsoft Global Services India (MGSI), Hyderabad. He has around 5 years of IT experience, he primarily does consulting on complex and critical customer engagements based on Microsoft SQL Server Database & BI technologies. He is a certified MCTS on SQL Server 2005.

Praveen Srivatsa
Founder and Director - AsthraSoft

Praveen Srivatsa is the Founder and Director of AsthraSoft. He has over 14 years of experience in the software industry and has worked in various capacities in companies like iFlex Solutions (formerly CITIL a division of CITIBANK), ADITI Technologies and Orbit-e Consulting. He joins the elite group of MSDN Regional Director for Bangalore, India. Apart from that he has also been nominated the Most Valued Professional from Microsoft since 2006 for his contribution. MVPs are specialists in a specific technology. He helped start the Microsoft Bangalore User Group, a vibrant community of Microsoft technologists, which has since grown to over 10000 members. Praveen is an well known international speaker for iNETA and PASS also. He has been invited by Microsoft to speak at conferences like TechED and DevDays. He speaks avidly on a host of Microsoft technologies including database engines, .NET development, WPF, MOSS and more recently on Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL 2008.

Pushkar Chitnis
SDE 2 - Developer, Terminal Services Licensing, IDC - Microsoft

Pushkar has been part of the Terminal Services (now Presentation and Hosted Desktop Virtualization), IDC charter for past 17 months and has contributed towards development of Windows Server 2008 releases.

Parag Paithankar
Technology Advisor ISV – Microsoft

Parag Paithankar works as a Technology Advisor for ISVs in India. Being a developer since the early days of ZX Spectrum, when he was 16, Parag started his coding journey from the very early evolution of the Assembly programming language. He has been a Systems Programmer for a very significant time of his IT career and is still very passionate about VC++. Coming from a device driver development background, he loves Systems Programming and likes to write system utilities to improve user productivity. Currently, he is evangelizing Vista, SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008, Office System Development and driving early technology adoption of latest Microsoft technologies within ISV partners in India.

Parag has also been a writer for various online communities like www.vb-helper.com, www.developersdex.com and www.codeproject.com He has also written a case study for the Satyam-Microsoft Synergy which is currently hosted on the http://msalliance.satyam.com/ . Parag has also contributed as a speaker at various Microsoft events like TechEd India, TechEd Srilanka, ISV Community Days and also for online webcasts.

Ramnish Singh
Senior Architect and Solutions Strategy Leader - Microsoft

Ramnish Singh is a Senior Architect and Solutions Strategy Leader with successful record of architecting, building and operating world-class solutions, programs, and project teams.  He works as an IT Advisor with Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Evangelism team. Prior to working with Microsoft, he worked as a consultant at Wipro Technologies.

Ramnish has more than 10 years of industry experience, working with customers in high-end mission critical Enterprise projects. He brings varied experience to the table. He has a graduation degree in Computer Engineering. He is also a Microsoft Certified Architect (Infrastructure), a practicing PMP (Project Management Professional) and CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) and holds many certifications from Cisco, Sun and Microsoft.

Ravi Sankar
IT Professional Evangelist - Microsoft

Ravi is an IT Professional Evangelist at Microsoft. In his current role he works closely with the IT Professional community in India and helps them learn and adopt cutting edge products and technologies from Microsoft. He conducts numerous training sessions, workshops as well as provides support and consultancy to IT Professionals. He is passionate about networking and security and works on products like Windows Server, Exchange Server and ISA Server etc. In his career he has worked as a support engineer, system administrator, trainer and consultant with various Microsoft partner and customer organizations. He is certified as MCSE (messaging & security) and MCT.

Sivakumar Harinath
SDET Lead SQL Server Analysis Services – Microsoft

Sivakumar was born in Chennai, India.  Siva has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.  His thesis title was: “Data Management Support for Distributed Data Mining of Large Datasets over High Speed Wide Area Networks.”  Siva has worked for Newgen Software Technologies (P) Ltd., IBM Toronto Labs, Canada, and has been in the SQL Server Analysis Services team in Microsoft since February of 2002.  Siva is currently the SDET Lead for the product SQL Server Analysis Services. He is co-author of the books “Professional SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 with MDX” and “MDX Solutions 2nd edition” and currently working on “Professional SQL Server Analysis Services 2008 with MDX” book.

Srikanth Ramakrishnan
OEM IT Group - Microsoft

Srikanth has overall 8 years of IT experience and has more than 2 years of experience in working with VSTS and TFS and is now working with OEM IT group in Microsoft.  Srikanth is also part of VSTS Extended Rangers group. He is actively involved in dogfooding Orcas and Rosario releases

Srikant Jahagirdar
Development Lead - Microsoft

Srikant is a Development Lead and is working for Microsoft IT (India) from past 3 years. He has around 8 years of experience on SQL Server and is passionate about exploring features of SQL Server and working on performance related problems. Srikant has participated in the TAP program of SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 and has contributed in dogfooding initiatives.

Sunil Agarwal
Program Manager SQL Server Storage Engine Group - Microsoft

Sunil Agarwal is a Program Manager in SQL Server Storage Engine Group, Prior to joining Microsoft, Sunil had worked at Digital Equipment Corp, Sybase, BMC Software and DigitalThink with primary focus on core database engine technology and related applications. Sunil holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur, India, and has done graduate work in Computer Science at University of Rhode Island and at Brown University”.

Shivesh Ranjan
SDE 2 | Developer, Terminal Services Gateway, IDC - Microsoft

Shivesh has been part of the Terminal Services (now Presentation and Hosted Desktop Virtualization), IDC charter for past 18 months and has contributed towards Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 releases. He was also involved in the development of JRDP client.

Vinod Kumar Jagannathan
Program Manager - SQL Server Manageability Team - Microsoft

 Vinod is currently a Program Manager in the SQL Server Manageability Team. He has been instrumental in the manageability knobs of engine features in the management studio. The Partitioning wizard is a product out of the team Vinod is in, in Hyderabad. Prior to Microsoft, he was involved in a successful social networking startup. He has also worked in protocol sniffers, CORBA in IBM JDK and HP printer software for the multi functional peripherals. He strongly believes in the success mantra “When V comes b4 I success will follow with a NOD”. You can read his blogs at blog.

Vinod Kumar
Technology Evangelist - Microsoft

Vinod works as a Technology Evangelist with Microsoft India specializing mostly on SQL Server. With the love and passion for SQL Server would want to help the community to maximize their investments on SQL Server by utilizing the product in the right way in their deployments and implementations. Has been working in the industry on MS technologies for the past 6+ years and been an MVP - SQL Server for 3+ years. Regular speaker at many of the MS Events like TechEd, MSDN, TechNet and more. He loves the passion the community has and helps them in every single opportunity available. He codes, writes actively and shares his finding with the global developer and administrative community at his web space, http://www.ExtremeExperts.com and blogs about technology at http://blogs.sqlxml.org/vinodkumar

Vasuki Parthasarathy
Partner Technical Consultant - Microsoft

Vasuki is very passionate about Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight and other Web technologies. In his current role as Partner Technical Consultant, Vasuki works closely with the Microsoft ISV Partners to provide assistance with their ad-hoc software development and also provides support on Microsoft products.

Yasin Mukadam
.Net, MOSS & Database Consultant - Microsoft Global Services India

Yasin is a .Net, MOSS & Database Consultant in Microsoft Global Services India (MGSI), Hyderabad. He has around 7+ years of IT experience, he primarily does consulting and delivery on complex and mission critical customer engagements based on Microsoft .Net Platform, SQL Server Database & MOSS.He is certified as MCSD, MCPD and MCTS (.NET, SQL Server and Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0).