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Joydip Kanjilal is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in ASP.Net, as well as a speaker and the author of several books and articles. He received the prestigious MVP award at ASP.Net for 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012.
He has more than 20 years of experience in IT, with more than 16 years in Microsoft .Net and related technologies. He has been selected as MSDN Featured Developer of the Fortnight (MSDN) and as Community Credit Winner several times.
He is the author of eight books and more than 500 articles. Many of his articles have been featured at Microsoft’s Official Site on ASP.Net.
He was a speaker at the Spark IT 2010 event and at the Dr. Dobb’s Conference 2014 in Bangalore. He has also worked as a judge for the Jolt Awards at Dr. Dobb's Journal. He is a regular speaker at the SSWUG Virtual Conference, which is held twice each year.
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