It's been a while since Rob set this up for me, but I'm finally online and blogging. My only hope is that I can keep it updated with frequent entries!

For those of you who don't know me, here's a brief bio, from the February 2004 aspnetPRO magazine:

As the Group Program Manager of the ASP.NET team at Microsoft, Shanku Niyogi leads the program management team responsible for design of both ASP.NET and Microsoft’s web development toolset in Visual Studio.NET.

Shanku joined Microsoft as a developer in 1998, with several years of experience in the Windows software industry. He worked on both Windows and web versions of Microsoft’s chat software, before going on to be a development lead on the Adaptive User Interface team, looking at the problem of adapting user interfaces to different form factors. This work led to the design and development of the ASP.NET Mobile Controls. Shanku then joined the ASP.NET team as an architect in 2002, helping prototype and design several features of the next version (“Whidbey”) of ASP.NET, before switching to the PM role this year.

Outside work, Shanku is predominantly occupied with playing with his daughter Acacia. Shanku is Canadian, and a graduate of the University of Waterloo, but his Indian heritage accounts for his obsession with trains and cricket.