Nikhil Kothari
Software Architect
Microsoft Corp

Nikhil Kothari is a software architect in the .NET Developer Platform group at Microsoft. During his 10 years at Microsoft, Nikhil has focused on the Web development platform and various application framework efforts, including Silverlight, Ajax and ASP.NET. He is currently working on building the next generation Silverlight RIA framework.

In his previous role at Microsoft, Nikhil was responsible for the server control framework, and initiated and led the development of ASP.NET Ajax, as well as the Silverlight managed code programming model in the browser.

He is the author of "Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Server Controls and Components", and is also responsible for starting and working on a number of innovative projects such as Web Matrix, Script#, Web Development Helper, and Facebook.NET. He has presented at various Microsoft and industry conferences.

Beyond a deep passion for developer tools and frameworks, Nikhil is enthusiastic and interested in digital photography. His blog is at http://www.nikhilk.net.