Kolkata Geeks is a premier user group for people from Kolkata and the neighbouring cities whose main focus is .NET technologies and who would like to know more about it. The group exists to educate people with latest technolgy updates using both Online and Offline events. Please register with the community so that we can reach you with exciting stuffs that we plan to put forward for the community. Be the first to learn from the community and with the community.

Meet The Core Team

Abhishek Sur,  Microsoft MVP, User Group Lead

Abhishek is the Kolkata Geek User Group Lead. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional ( MVP) , Code Project MVP , Mentor, frequent Speaker and passionate blogger. He has having approx. 4 years of experiences in wide range of .NET . He majorly focus on WPF, C# Internals, WCF, Architecture. Abhishek has also been a Codeproject MVP for last two years, and awarded MVP for DotNetFunda too. Abhishek blogs at http://www.abhisheksur.com and tweets at @abhi2434 . Many of his articles published as Article of the day at http://asp.net and http://windowsclient.net .


Kunal Chowdhury, Microsoft MVP 

Kunal Chowdhury is a Microsoft MVP (Silverlight), a Telerik MVP, a Codeproject MVP & Mentor, Speaker in various Microsoft events, Author, passionate Blogger and a Software Engineer by profession. He has a very good skill over XAML, C#, Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone 7, LightSwitch and Expression Blend.

He posts his findings in his technical blog. Subscribe to his blog: http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com for latest Articles, Tutorials and news. Follow http://www.silverlight-zone.com - An exclusive WebPortal for Silverlight, Windows Phone community.

Stay tuned with him in Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/blog.kunal2383. He also Tweets. You can reach him @kunal2383.

Kunal is a Platinum Author of CodeProject. He also writes for SilverlightShow portal. Many of his articles were highlighted as "Article of the Day" in Microsoft sites. Many community portal awarded him for his contribution towards online/offline activities.


Sourav Maitra

A passionate software engineer and trainer by profession Mr. Sourav Maitra, has bagged up BCA, ADCA and MCA from IGNOU. Apart from Computer Science he has also done P.G Diploma in Cyber law from Nalsar University of Law. He is also a Six Sigma Green Belt. Very recently he has joined Department of Computer Science, University of Burdwan as a Research Scholar and working with Semantic Web Service. Details about him can be found in his site http://souravmaitra.com.

He has around 10 years of experience in academic as well as in corporate environment.



Advisory Council Members

Abhishek Kant, Community Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Abhishek Kant is passionate about technology and marketing. With over 10 years of experience in IT software industry, he has worked on offshore services delivery with Satyam Computers and on product marketing with Microsoft Corporation. His passion has found vent in his current role as Community Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation. In this role he supports the technology communities in India and integrates them with core product marketing. In this pursuit, he has worked with diverse technology communities including developers, IT Professionals, Information Workers and Consumers. He has relished the rise of web applications, mobile technologies, cloud computing and followed them from infancy. Abhishek holds a BE degree and MBA from NMIMS, Mumbai. In his spare time, Abhishek likes to trek and get fragging with his XBOX

 You can follow his tweets at @abhishekkant

 

Amit Bansal, Microsoft MVP

Amit Bansal is the CTO of eDominer Systems & Peopleware India. He is a consultant, trainer, writer, speaker & evangelist on SQL Server & Business Intelligence. A seasoned speaker; he speaks at major summits and conferences of Microsoft worldwide including TechED, MCT Summits, MSDN & TechNet conferences. Over the last 8 years, he has consulted, trained & mentored more than 6000 IT professionals on SQL Server & Business Intelligence and worked with top notch blue chip companies worldwide including Microsoft, Infosys, Wipro, RBS, HCL, HP, Siemens, IBM, Accenture, etc. He has delivered more than 400 workshops on SQL Server & Business Intelligence. Apart from holding many Microsoft credentials, he is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) awardee on SQL Server. He is also one of the first Microsoft Certified Trainer in India. Amit has worked with Microsoft in India and US as a Subject Matter Expert in various capacities participating in OD sessions, technical reviewing, etc. He is also a very active community lead in Asia Pacific. Visit www.amitbansal.net to know more. Subscribe to Amit’s blog and be a member of his technical forum at www.SQLServerGeeks.com - an exclusive SQL Server portal. Visit  www.peoplewareindia.com for Corporate Training solutions. FaceBook – http://www.facebook.com/people/Amit-Bansal/525339346 LinkedIn – http://www.linkedin.com/pub/amit-bansal/7/121/755

Abhijit Jana,  Consultant, Microsoft

Abhijit works at Microsoft as a .NET Consultant. As a Consultant his job to helps Microsoft’s customers to design, develop, deploy enterprise level secure solution using Microsoft Technology. He is a former Microsoft ASP.NET MVP, A Code Project MVP and Insider, Technology Evangelist, Frequent Speaker of Different Microsoft Events, and a Microsoft Certified Web Technology Specialist. He loves to work with different .NET Community and helped them with different opportunities. He is a well-known author and published many articles on different .NET Community sites.

He shares his finding to his personal blog at http://abhijitjana.net You can follow him on twitter at @abhijitjana

Student Representative

Kolkata Geeks user group is a common platform for all developers, Architects, IT professionals in and around the city to learn, collaborate and discuss . But we do interact with students and organize interactive sessions with them touching various upcoming Microsoft technologies like Azure , .NET,  Visual studio, Windows Phone, Silverlight . So far the response from the student community has been overwhelming and they have whole heartedly embraced several of the new technologies. We hope to continue our good work with them.  Below are few student representative who helps  to create a bridge between student community and professionals.

Arka Bhattacharya , Microsoft Student Partner

He is currently pursuing is BTech Degree from Heritage Institute of Technology. He is an evangelist and and avid technology geek. He has been a Microsoft student partner for the past 3 years and spoken on innumerable seminars. He was one of the founder members of the Microsoft Kolkata Student user group which enjoys the active participation of students from various institutes in Kolkata.




Rohit Kumar Shaw , Microsoft Student Partner

He is currently pursuing is BTech Degree from Heritage Institute of Technology. He is a Windows Phone 7 Application developer and has several Microsoft certified apps to his credit. He has also been a Microsoft student partner since 2009 and played an active part in Microsoft Dreamspark yatra 1 and 2 . Apart from that he has played a pivotal part in the organization of several big Microsoft events in the city