Hrishikesh Dewan has worked as lead engineer for Siemens Technology and Services(STS), INDIA since June, 2008. He is also a PhD scholar at the Department of Computer Science and Automation, IISC, Bangalore pursuing research in the areas of large scale distributed storage systems. In STS, he leads the distributed systems laboratory. Prior to joining STS, he founded a very small open source software development organization named “Srishti” that promoted open source tools and software for schools and colleges. He also worked as a project manager for 2 years at Eth Ltd., a subsidiary and R&D unit of Dishnet Wireless Ltd (Aircel). He is the author of two other books on WCF-SOAP and Visual Studio technologies.