Hammad works as an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft. Before joining Microsoft, Hammad was awarded Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional award, seven years in a row. Along with being an MVP he was also Microsoft's Business Platform Technology Advisor. Being an MVP in Connected Systems gave him early access to Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, as well as Windows Server AppFabric. In his previous roles he has been a CTO at a technology startup, Vice President at one of largest financial institutions, as well as a Solutions Architect at a leading consulting company. Hammad has over a decade of experience using Microsoft Technologies, especially .Net since its beta 1 release. He is a published author and a frequent speaker at Technology conferences (including Tech Ed and Cloud Computing Asia). He has founded a number of developer and architect communities over the years and remains a passionate speaker and contributor at local technical communities in Singapore. He is also an active member of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA) - Singapore Chapter. His areas of interest include Cloud Computing, Enterprise Architecture, Design Patterns and Quantum Computation. At home he is a busy husband and father of twin girls and a baby boy. For more details visit his website at https://www.hammadrajjoub.net and his twitter account @hammadrajjoub.