Kunal Chowdhury is a Microsoft MVP (Silverlight), a Telerik MVP, a Codeproject MVP & Mentor, Speaker in various Microsoft events, Author, passionate Blogger and a Software Engineer by profession. He is also a Nokia Developer Champion for his contribution towards Windows Phone and Nokia Lumia.
He is currently working as a Software Engineer (L2, Silverlight) in an MNC located at Pune, India. He has a very good skill over XAML, C#, Silverlight, WPF, Blend.
He posts his findings in his technical blog: http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com. He is a Platinum Author of CodeProject. He also writes for SilverlightShow portal. Many of his articles were highlighted as "Article of the Day" in Microsoft sites. Many community portal awarded him for his technical exposures and contribution towards online/offline activities.
He also has another website called Silverlight-Zone.com where he posts article links on Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, LightSwitch, XNA and other related stuffs accumulated from various web sites to help the community grow on specified technologies. Follow him in Twitter @kunal2383 for various updates.
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Honors and Awards (Latest on Top)
- Nokia Developer Champion
Nokia - May 2013
Nokia Developer Champion is a recognition program for top mobile developers worldwide. Every quarter, Nokia invites outstanding members of the Nokia Developer community to accept a one-year membership in this program. Awardees are selected based on their technical expertise, their activities, contributions to the Nokia Developer Portal online community and offline services and communities worldwide.
- Telerik Most Valuable Professional (MVP)
Telerik - January 2013
Telerik MVP Award for the 4th time for my continuous support to the Telerik developers community.
- Microsoft India Rockstar
Microsoft - November 2012
Part of the Microsoft India Rockstar elite group for application development and blogging towards Windows Phone and Windows 8 Store (WinRT).
- Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP, Silverlight)
Microsoft - October 2012
Received this MVP award from Microsoft for 3rd time in a Row. This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. It was given by Microsoft to appreciate my outstanding contributions in Silverlight technical communities for last few years.
- Telerik Most Valuable Professional (MVP)
Telerik - August 2012
Again received Telerik MVP Award for the 3rd time in a row for my continuous support to the Telerik developers community.
- Telerik Most Valuable Professional (MVP)
Telerik - January 2012
Again received Telerik MVP Award for the 2nd time in a row of two. The Telerik MVP Program aims to recognize and reward the amazing people who are highly successful at their own jobs and yet find the time and energy to share their extensive knowledge and passion about Telerik products with fellow developers. The Telerik MVPs have been actively contributing to the evolution of our organization and spreading the word about our products to the community.
- Codeproject Most Valuable Professional (MVP)
Codeproject - January 2012
Codeproject MVP for the 2nd time in a Row. In recognition of my outstanding contributions to the community, either through Quick Answers, forums, articles and tips in Codeproject community portal I received this Award.
- Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP, Silverlight)
Microsoft - October 2011
Received this award 2nd time in a Row. This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. It was given to me by Microsoft to appreciate my outstanding contributions in Silverlight technical communities during the past year.
- Telerik Most Valuable Professional (MVP)
Telerik - September 2011
The Telerik MVP Program aims to recognize and reward the amazing people who are highly successful at their own jobs and yet find the time and energy to share their extensive knowledge and passion about Telerik products with fellow developers. The Telerik MVPs have been actively contributing to the evolution of our organization and spreading the word about our products to the community.
- Prize Winner in Competition "Best C# Article of July 2011"
Codeproject - August 2011
I have been selected as the Winner of Article writing competition at "The Code Project" for the month of July 2011 for writing an article on Silverlight which demonstrated the steps require to do the communication between two local Silverlight applications.
- DZone Most Valuable Blogger (MVB)
DZone - August 2011
In recognition to my passion on regular blogging, DZone mentioned me as the Most Valuable Blogger and thus my Blog articles will be showcase in their site.
- Codeproject Most Valuable Professional (MVP)
Codeproject - January 2011
In recognition of my outstanding contributions to the community, either through Quick Answers, forums, articles and tips in Codeproject community portal I received this Award.
- Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP, Silverlight)
Microsoft - October 2010
This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. It was given to me by Microsoft to appreciate my outstanding contributions in Silverlight technical communities during the past year.
- Member of the Month
DotNetSpark.com - August 2010
This award was given with respect to my sincere contribution to the Silverlight Community in DotNetSpark.com portal for my support towards the Forum and Articles section.
- Member of the Month
DotNetSpark.com - March 2010
Member of the Month (March 2010) was given by DotNetSpark.com for my tremendous contribution to the portal in terms of Articles and Forum Support.
- Winner of the Month
DotNetFunda.com - March 2010
Selected as the Winner of the Month for contributing Articles to the DotNetFunda.com online portal.
- Winner of Innovation Festival
SpadeWorx Software Services Pvt. Ltd., Pune - December 2008
Winner of Innovation Festival (Winter 2008) in SpadeWorx Software Services for implementing the logic to create image snapshot of the XAML in Silverlight 2.0.
- Runner-up Winner in Innovation Festival
SpadeWorx Software Services Pvt. Ltd., Pune - December 2008
Runner in Innovation Festival (Winter 2008) in SpadeWorx Software Services for implementing Customized Scrolling in Silverlight 2.0.
- Hero of the Month
SpadeWorx Software Services Pvt. Ltd., Pune - September 2008
Hero of the Month (September 2008) award was given for Quality Output, Delivering Solutions in Time & Customer Satisfaction while working as a Software Engineer at SpadeWorx.
- Winner of Software Development Competition
Sunbeam Institute of Information Technology, Pune - July 2007
Received Gold Medal as the Winner of Software Development Competition in Java. Project was to develop the CDAC Online Admission Process.
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