About the Authors Shailesh Kumar Shivakumar is an author, inventor and working as Practice Lead & Senior Technology Architect at Digital Practice of Infosys Limited. He is an award-winning digital technology practitioner with skills in technology and practice management and has experience in a wide spectrum of digital technologies, including enterprise portals, content systems, enterprise search, and other digital technologies. He has more than 17 years of industry experience and was the chief architect in building a digital platform that won the “Best Web Support Site 2013” global award. His areas of expertise include digital technologies, software engineering, performance engineering, and digital program management. He is a Guinness world record holder of participation for successfully developing a mobile application in a coding marathon. Shailesh is deeply focused on enterprise architecture, building alliance partnerships with product vendors, and has a proven track record of executing complex, large-scale digital programs. He successfully architected and led many engagements for Fortune 500 clients of Infosys and built globally deployed enterprise applications. He also headed a center-of- excellence for digital practice and developed several digital solutions and intellectual property to accelerate digital solution development. He led multiple thought-leadership and productivity improvement initiatives and was part of special interest groups related to emerging web technologies at his organization. Shailesh was awarded the prestigious “Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award 2018” for excellence in technology and has received numerous honors and awards. He has won multiple awards including the prestigious Infosys Awards for Excellence 2013- 14 “Multi-talented thought leader” under the “Innovation – Thought leadership” category, “Brand ambassador award” for MFG unit, “Best employee award”, delivery excellency award and multiple spot awards, and received honors from executive vice chairman of his organization. He is featured as an “Infy star” in the Infosys Hall of fame and recently led a delivery team that won the “best project team” award at his organization. xvii
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