Contributors

About the author

Srikanth Shirodkar leads online courses relating to Microsoft Project, on which more than 50,000 professionals from 150 countries have enrolled. With a broad range of experience in software delivery management, project and program management, and the design and architecture of software solutions, spanning high-transaction, enterprise-level applications to standalone product development, he has worked with a variety of software development methodologies, including ISV Product Lifecycle, traditional Waterfall, and Agile (Scrum and DSDM).

He has managed global projects and software applications, including one of the world's largest learning management system implementations for online structured higher education, with more than 400,000 students pursuing master's/bachelor's/certificate programs.

This has been my first book, and I wish to thank the entire Packt team for their unflinching support throughout the entire process. Every book is a project and Packt follows a robust process that includes initiation, planning, execution, and reviews every step of the way before the book is closed successfully. This is to ensure that you, the reader, have a highly engaging learning experience. If my book succeeds in achieving this goal, it will all be down to Tiksha Lad (Content Development Editor) and Tanvi Bhatt (PM). If any bugs remain in the book, this will be due to my oversight alone. I also wish to thank Karan Gupta (Acquisition Editor) for reaching out to me first, and Packt's awesome marketing and creative design team. And finally, a very special thank you to the technical reviewer, Vijayendra Shamanna, for providing excellent insights as a result of his extensive industry experience.

About the reviewer

Vijayendra Shamanna is an effective, hands-on leader with a varied technology background and a strong interest in developing innovative technologies for next-generation, cloud-native applications.

He has more than 25 years of extensive and diverse experience as a senior director of engineering/technical manager, architect, senior technical lead, and principal engineer, delivering complex SaaS platforms along with machine learning/AI, storage, virtualization, networking, and data center solutions, from inception to customer deployment.

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