Contest Judges
At the conclusion of the Contest Period, all eligible entries received will be reviewed by the following panel of qualified judges based on the judging criteria set forth above to determine the top submission by a professional, top submission by a student, and the next top five (5) submissions for each of the two (2) contest categories – PHP Application on Windows Azure and ASP.NET Application on Windows Azure, respectively. Decision of the Judges shall be final and binding.

	Kattayil Rajinish Menon MBS Partner Lead Microsoft Corporation K Rajinish Menon MBS Partner Lead, DPE, Microsoft is a seasoned ERP / CRM professional with over 14 + years of experience in Finance/manufacturing/Service industry domains. He has been involved in ERP and CRM consulting/implementation for past 7 years and has over the years managed several large and medium sized projects for industries like Energy utilities, BFSI, Retail etc. Currently he is involved in evangelizing Azure – Microsoft’s offering in the cloud platform arena amongst the larger community of developers.
	Mark D'Souza Senior Breadth Evangelist Microsoft Corporation Mark D'Souza is a Senior Academic Evangelist at Microsoft and focuses on enabling the Academic community in India. He has been with Microsoft for over 6 years and has also managed a portfolio of IT applications as a Senior Lead Program Manager at the Business Intelligence Center of Excellence, Microsoft IT India, Hyderabad. Prior to Microsoft, Mark worked with a start-up company focusing on Retail Automation Systems & Pocket PC Applications. During this period, Mark was selected as one of the initial Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professional) from India for his contributions to the local technical communities. He has also built & deployed strategic simulation systems while working in the Applied Artificial Intelligence group at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune.
	Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu Microsoft India Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu works with Microsoft as a Developer Evangelist. He has a tremendous passion for technology and he would want to help the businesses and the community to maximize their returns on Investment by utilizing technology in the most optimal way. He actively works on Windows Azure, Windows Mobile and Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio. His hobby is to create Robots / Intelligent Systems, and play with it. http://www.beingmanan.com/wp/2009/05/meet-microsoft-sam/ He works closely with students on projects along the areas of technology and innovation. In the past he has spent a lot of time in evangelizing the latest of Microsoft technologies with customers and developers and has ensured adoption of the same.
	Ramkumar Kothandaraman Director I Microsoft Technology Centre Microsoft Corporation Ram has been with Microsoft for around 10 years and currently he is managing the Microsoft Technology Center at Bangalore where he and his team of architects help customers envision, architect and build solutions on top of Microsoft platform. Over the past 10 years at Microsoft, he has played multiple roles – including architecture evangelism, architecture strategy, product development teams focusing on working with large ISV vendors etc., He is passionate about enterprise computing and his areas of interests include building large scale scalable applications, database platform, master data management and Service oriented architecture.
	Saranya Sriram Microsoft India Saranya works as a Developer Evangelist in Microsoft India focusing on Microsoft’s latest cloud services technology. Inherently interested in Microsoft technologies and developer tools, she has spent considerable time in other Microsoft business units in India and Redmond. She is a graduate from BITS Pilani in Computer Science and Masters in Physics. She is passionate about technology, community meetups, presentations , demos and 2 way dialogues. Through upcoming Microsoft Virtual TechDays, she seeks to reach out to the developer community audiences to make aware of the next generation in software computing , where the future is headed towards ; the power and need of software + services – Microsoft’s Azure Services Platform.
	Srikanth Karnakota Srikanth - Director for Cloud Platform Strategy and ISV Partnerships is responsible for developing and defining core platform strategies for Microsoft India, and driving platform adoption with customers and partners. He has played a key role in building ‘Software + Services’ based vertical industry solutions for manufacturing clusters and evolved innovative business models with key Telcos, ISVs and SIs to service the small business segment. In his earlier role Srikanth built and incubated Start-ups and Venture capital engagement arm of Microsoft India. He led strategic business development activities thru start-up engagements and ISVs. Prior to joining Microsoft, Srikanth was the early employee of a young Indian product company Pramati Technologies and established their business development activities in the US. He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from JNTU University and an MBA from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade.
	Vikram Rajkondawar Architect Advisor Microsoft Corporation Vikram Rajkondawar works as an Architect Advisor with Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Evangelism team. Vikram has more than 12+ years of professional experience and has worked with multiple customers during his tenure. In the past he has spent a lot of time in evangelizing the latest of Microsoft technologies with customers and developers and has ensured adoption of the same.