Kishore GaddamKishore Gaddam is the CEO and a co-founder of Astrani Technologies and is recognized as an industry expert in mobile, cloud, and bot software development. He is a forward-thinking technology leader with 17+ years of international experience in buildig technology organizations, strategic planning, rolling out multiple platforms/products, IT program and project management, strategy and transformation (businesses, people, processes, and technologies), and growing business units across IoT, smart cities, NLP, AI, bots, cloud, robotics, mobile, healthcare, industrial automation, financial systems, retail, procurement (EPC), travel & leisure, logistics, manufacturing, and automotive domains. He is a champion of the technical pre-sales, architecture, and software development of enterprise Azure IoT/bot/web applications using cognitive services, microservices, Service Fabric, Azure IoT Hub, Stream Analytics, Cortana Intelligence Suit, Logic Apps, Notification Hubs, Big Data, Azure Web Apps, Azure App service, Azure API Apps, Application Insights, API Management, Machine Learning, Azure SQL databases, Cosmos DB, Data Factory, Data Lake, HD Insight, Redis Cache, Key Vault, and Azure Service Bus, and a champion of implementing DevOps using Azure, PowerShell scripts, ARM templates, and VSTS. He has huge experience in startup leadership, including building teams, and developing a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) with little to no supervision. Kishore is comfortable at all layers of the startup people stack, from individual contributor (software development, product management) to CxO. Kishore graduated in Technology Entrepreneurship from Stanford University, CA, and is a speaker at various conferences in the USA. Kishore is the author of the popular Microsoft Technologies blog. He has a love for mentoring and a passion for sharing new tools, programming languages, and technology trends at national conferences, regional code camps, local user groups, meetups, and hackathons. Read More Read Less