About Me

Vidya Vrat Agarwal is an avid reader, blogger,  speaker, a published author for Apress, and a technical reviewer of over a dozen books for Apress, Packtpub, and Oreilly. I am TOGAF, CAPM, and CSM certified along with over a dozen Microsoft certifications. I am a hands-on architect with proven 19+ years of experience in architecting, designing, and developing distributed software solutions for large enterprises. At Microsoft, as a Principal Software Engineering Manager, I own the Platform team. I see software development as a craft, and I am a big proponent of software architecture and clean code discipline-n-practices. I like to see the bigger picture and make a broader impact. I was also a Microsoft MVP for seven years 2014-2021 7 on Visual Studio and Dev Technologies