Lohith G. N. who hails from Mysore, India and currently resides in Bangalore, India has over 12 years' software development experience. Currently, he works as developer evangelist for Telerik in India and takes care of evangelism for the South Indian region. Lohith comes from a production engineering background and ended up in software development thanks to the FORTRAN language, which he learnt during his graduation days. Well versed with the .NET platform, Lohith has experience in building web applications, Windows applications, and service-oriented architectures. Lohith has spent close to a decade mostly in the service-based industry and is well versed with the agile method of software development.

Lohith was twice awarded, in 2011 and 2012, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the area of ASP.NET/IIS. Lohith often writes on ASP.NET/ODATA and maintains his own blog at http://kashyapas.com. He can be reached on Twitter and his Twitter handle is @kashyapa. To learn more about Lohith you can check out http://about.me/kashyapa. Lohith is also one of the user group leads for the Bangalore DotNet user group, one of the most active user groups in India. He is a regular speaker at his local user groups