Vivek Sridhar is a technophile and an Open-Source contributor with around 18+ years of experience in the software industry. He currently works at Microsoft as the CTO of Microsoft for Startups. In his previous roles, he has mentored startups and been a speaker at conferences for DigitalOcean as a Senior Developer Advocate. He is also a Co-Founder/Chief Architect of NoodleNext Technology. Additionally, Mr. Sridhar headed DevOps at BlackBuck and served as a solution architect at HCL (Australia) in client engagement. He began his career with IBM Rational (India Software Labs) as a Software Developer. He has published three papers in international forums, including one in an international journal.