About the Author

Srikanth Machiraju is an ardent techie, DevOps practitioner, and developer consultant on Microsoft Azure and .NET technologies. He works for Microsoft Global Services, Modern Apps team, Hyderabad India. Over the past 9 years he has worked as a lead consultant for design and development of cloud-based application, migrating legacy applications to cloud, corporate trainer on Azure technologies, and speaker at various user group meetings on Microsoft Technologies. He loves to teach and evangelize best practices and patterns in application development. He continues to explore building modern, smart, and cloud-born applications with more reachability and integration using Azure, IoT devices, Artificial Intelligence, deep learning, parallelism, and enterprise level security. When away from work he loves to cook for his family, explore and review new food joints, watch movies, swim, and play Xbox.

He is also working on another artwork called Developing Bots using Microsoft Bot Framework which is due for release by end of 2017. The book focuses on building smart and intelligent bots using Microsoft Bot framework and Azure Cognitive Services.

I would like to thank my family, specially my wife Sonia Madan for being unconditionally supportive throughout the journey of this book. I would also like to thank my mentors Vineet Bhatia and Phani Tipparaju from BrainScale for their guidance throughout my career without learning from them this achievement would not have been possible. It is the people above and many more I may not have listed here inspired me learn, achieve, and feel obligated to pass the knowledge and learnings to the willing.