Vikas Hazrati

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Biography

Mr. Vikas Hazrati co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer at Knoldus Software. Previously, he served as Chief Technology Officer at the company. In his 16+ years of experience, he has become a recognized speaker, mentor, and practitioner in the software industry. He is responsible for product development, exploring new and promising technologies, exploring best practices of distributed software development and contributing to the technology roadmap for the organization. Vikas is a technologist at heart and is never too far away from the keyboard. His blogs have been presented at various Technology conferences and written articles on Software development in "Agile Journal" and "The Server Side". He is an Agile Editor on InfoQ.com where he posts weekly about the latest and greatest in the community. He is a significant contributor to the book "Mind the Gap" which specializes in adopting Agile and leveraging Scrum for distributed teams. He is also a contributor to the distributed scrum primer which is an introduction to the principles and practices of successful distributed agile development using Scrum. He is highly focused on engineering practices and has coached numerous teams on the best practices of software development including teams at Saba, Ericsson, Cognizant and Fiserv. He is one of the few Certified Scrum Practitioners (CSP) in India, is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) as well as a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO). Vikas was an ardent fan of Java with SCJP, SCWCD, SCBCD, SCEA certifications and multiple high-load enterprise systems to boast of till he met Scala. His current passions include utilizing the power of Scala, Akka and Play to make reactive Big Data systems. Vikas has a Master's in Software Systems from BITS, Pilani. He is B.Tech in Computer Engineering and holds a degree in Business Administration. He has worked with several big system integrators like IBM, Mastek and Sapient. He was the driving force behind three startups Solutions Inc., Xebia India and Inphina which went on to become successful in their respective domains.