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​Vivek is a technophile and an Open Source contributor with around 19+ years of experience in the Software Industry and works at Microsoft as CTO - Microsoft for Startups. In his previous role, he has mentored startups/developers, speaker at conferences/meetups for DigitalOcean as Senior Developer Advocate, Co-Founder / Chief-Architect of NoodleNext Technology. He was also heading DevOps at BlackBuck and was a solution architect at HCL (Australia) in client engagement. Vivek started his career with IBM Rational (India Software Labs) as a Software Developer. He has also published three papers in international forums, including one international journal.