Ritesh Modi is a former Microsoft senior technology evangelist currently working as a principal consultant for Infront Consulting Group. He is an architect, a senior evangelist, cloud architect, published author, speaker, and a known leader for his contributions towards datacenter, Azure, bots, blockchain, cognitive services, DevOps, artificial intelligence, and automation. He is the author of multiple books. Developing Bots using Bot Framework and DevOps with Windows Server 2016 are some of his recent books. He has also coauthored another book, titled Introducing Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview, along with the Windows Server team.
He has spoken at more than 15 conferences, including TechEd and the PowerShell Asia Conference, and is a published author for MSDN magazine. He has more than a decade of experience in building and deploying enterprise solutions for customers, and more than 25 technical certifications. His interests and hobbies include writing books, playing with his daughter, watching movies, and continuing to learn new technologies. His Twitter handle is @automationnext.
Ritesh currently lives in Hyderabad, India.
Writing this book has been a fantastic experience. I have personally grown as a person who now has more patience, perseverance, and tenacity. I owe a lot to the people who pushed me through their encouragements and motivation. I would like to thank so many people for making this book happen.
I must start with the people who mean the world to me, who inspire me to push myself, and who ultimately make everything worthwhile. I am talking about my mother, Bimla Modi; wife, Sangeeta Modi; and daughter, Avni Modi, the three wonderful ladies in my life. I would also like to thank my father who provided continuous support to ensure that I remained focused on the book.
Thanks, of course, must go to the Packt team. I would like to thank my content development editor Abhishek Jadhav, for taking me in this project and helping me through it. I would like to thank the acquisition editor, Shrilekha Inani, for finding me for this book. I would also like to thank my technical editor, Aditya Khadye, who walked me through the book multiple times and provided me with incredibly useful feedback.
Finally, I would like to apologize to my family, friends, and well-wishers for not being able to spend much time with them during the last year. I am going to make it up to them.
