Aviraj is a Computer Engineer from Mumbai and is currently working with Microsoft India. In his present role he's accountable for managing IT Infrastructure of Microsoft India - West Region.
He has concluded trainings on Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and Sun Solaris System Administration (SCSA).

In his spare time he likes to spend time with his family, hang around with friends, listens to rock music and passionate about long drives.
You can check his blog at http://blogs.technet.com/aviraj

Govindaraj Rangan is a Technology Strategist with Microsoft India, helping Enterprise Customers align Technology initiatives with their Business Priorities. He has 13 years of industry experience in areas such as Technology evaluation and Implementation, System Automation, Project Management, IT Security and Technology consulting. He has travelled across most part of the Technology Universe working with multiple Operating Systems, Networking, Application Development, Data Management etc.

He has a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Madras University, M.S. in Software Systems from BITS, Pilani and an M.B.A. from ICFAI.

He holds many Industry credentials such as MCSE, CISSP and ITIL Foundation Course. His passion is to improve IT Operational Efficiency and use Technology as a key driver for Business growth.

Gowtham works as Partner Technical Consultant at Microsoft. He works with Microsoft partners to adopt and implement  solutions using latest Microsoft Technologies. He is very passionate about various development technologies like WPF, Silverlight,  ASP.Net , C# , VB.Net, LINQ and Expression Studio. He has been with Microsoft for close to 3 years now. He started his career at TCS as a .NET developer.

Outside of work, he is very active in forums like IEEE. He organizes a lot of conferences and deliver talks at various community forums. He likes to unwind himself by listening to music, reading novels and driving his new car.

Jatin Sheth is Platform Strategy Advisor at Microsoft India since 2004. In this role, he supports large enterprise customers in early adoption of Microsoft technologies for their mission critical applications across the manufacturing, process, retail, hospitality and allied industries. Jatin has 23 years of industry experience spanning manufacturing and IT. He spent 14 years in the manufacturing industry, including General Motors USA, Bharat Gears (a leading Indian gear manufacturer), Metropolitan Springs (an auto-component manufacturer), and seven years as a successful entrepreneur with his own diamond tool manufacturing business.

He has been in the IT industry since 2000, including Vice President – E-Commerce of Indiainfo.com, where he headed the B2C business and nearly four years as National Marketing Manager of TCS’ Engineering & Industrial Services Business Unit.Jatin has a bachelor’s degree and gold medal in metallurgical engineering from Poona Engineering College, a master’s in Materials Science from the University of Minnesota, USA, and a diploma in general management from IIM Ahmedabad.

Milind Kulkarni is a Technical Consulting Engineer in the Developer Product Division at Intel. He is responsible for supporting Intel C++ compilers, enabling and optimizing customer applications on multi-core systems on Intel® architectures. Milind has over 7 years of varied experience in compiler optimization and threading methodologies, Directory Services, and Highly Available Applications, and in Wireless protocols.

Mohammed A. Saleh (PMP) is Industry Market Development Director “IMDD”, Worldwide Health, Microsoft Corporation.

As an IMDD, Saleh is helping the Health customers, Partners and Governments understanding how to apply Microsoft’s platform capabilities to their specific Health business processes & challenges and simplifying the IT complexities to leverage Microsoft software in ways that are relevant and meaningful to Health industry standards and best practices. This is accomplished by working with the responsible Microsoft Account Team Units (ATU), other field based resources, Partners, and the Customers by defining, developing, prioritizing, evangelism of Health Solutions and ultimately delivering these Solutions at scale with these resources across (but may not be limited to) providers, health & human & Social services, Payers, Pharma, biotech, and medical device organizations.

In his role, He is principally focused on emerging markets (- Where existing solutions are less than optimal, Limited and even non-existent) by leveraging Microsoft’s broader health initiatives, programs, best practices and another Markets experiences and Health solutions & innovations.

Saleh plays an integral part of the WW Health team, helping to foster trusted-advisor relationships and assisting Health customers and Partners in realizing maximum value from their investment in Microsoft technologies. Saleh is on the front lines of innovation with Microsoft technology in the Healthcare space, allowing to provide crucial feedback to the product development teams to ensure the ongoing success of our products and services.

M.S.Anand is a Technology Evangelist with Microsoft India. His expertise lies in directory services, identity/access management, virtualization and security. He has a wide range of experience with similar technologies during his 13 year career in the IT marketplace and has undertaken numerous projects in assisting medium and large customers architect and design their infrastructure. He is a familiar face at Microsoft events and is a MCITP Enterprise Administrator on Windows Server 2008.

Niraj is an Enterprise Architect for a Fortune 500 company. Niraj is a Connected Systems MVP and a top rated speaker at various technical forums including Tech Ed, MCT Summit, Developer Summit, Virtual Tech Days, etc. Niraj enjoys working on IT innovation that impacts company’s bottom line and has an innate passion for building / studying large scale software systems.

When he is away from his laptop, you will find him taking deep dives into automobiles, pottery, rafting, photography & financial statements though not necessarily in that order. He blogs at http://nirajrules.wordpress.com and is a manager/speaker at http://bdotnet.in, India's largest .NET user group.

Praveen is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Asthra (www.asthra.net) – a Technology Consulting company that he founded in 2004. He has over eleven years of experience in delivering solutions on Microsoft platforms.

A graduate from REC, Surathkal, Praveen has worked for over 5 years with iFlexSolutions and then moved onto Aditi and Orbit-e Consulting working with clients in Europe, North America and East Asia. As part of the MSDN Regional Director Program since 2000, he has spoken at a large number of MSDN sessions and is a regular speaker at premier Microsoft events like Tech.Ed, DevDays, and the Software Architect Forum where he has consistently got top ratings. A speaker for INETA (International .NET Association) and PASS (Professional Association of SQL Server), he is also part of the Technical Advisory Board of HSBSoft.

Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu works with Microsoft as a Developer Evangelist. He has a tremendous passion for technology and he would want to help the businesses and the community to maximize their returns on Investment by utilizing technology in the most optimal way. He actively works on Windows Azure, Windows Mobile and Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio. His hobby is to create Robots / Intelligent Systems, and play with it. http://www.beingmanan.com/wp/2009/05/meet-microsoft-sam/

He works closely with students on projects along the areas of technology and innovation. In the past he has spent a lot of time in evangelizing the latest of Microsoft technologies with customers and developers and has ensured adoption of the same.

Sandeep J. Alur works as an Enterprise Architect Advisor with Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) Group at Microsoft Corporation, India.  He focuses on providing Technology and Architectural guidance to customers in addressing their Enterprise Challenges. His experience ranges from the days of COM/DCOM to the next generation distributed & cloud computing technologies on the Microsoft Platform. He has architected solutions across Microsoft Technology suite and is a stern believer of his own philosophy which says “Enterprise Architecture is an evolution and it grows with Innovation”. He has authored quite a few articles in the area of SOA, ESB, Enterprise Framework, Distributed Computing technologies, Web 2.0 Next Generation Web, Cloud Computing to name a few.

Vinod works as a Technology Evangelist (Databases and BI) with Microsoft India specializing primarily on SQL Server. With the love and passion for SQL Server he would want to help the community to maximize their investments on SQL Server by utilizing the product in the right way in their design, development, architecture and deployments. He has been working in the industry on various Microsoft technologies for the past 8+ years and has been working MVP - SQL Server for more than 3+ years before joining Microsoft. He has been a regular speaker at many of the MS Events like TechEd, MSDN, TechNet and many more. Also loves the local Microsoft Communities and has helped them in every single opportunity available. Apart from SQL, his part-time love is around Office suite of products which he plays a lot with.

He codes, writes actively and shares his finding with the global developer and administrative community at his web space, www.ExtremeExperts.com and blogs about technology at http://blogs.sqlxml.org/vinodkumar. He also has been writing actively on many of the SQL Server Worldwide communities.