About Me

Abhijit is a seasoned technology leader with over 17 years of experience in the IT Industry, currently associated with West Pharmaceutical Services and serving as the Senior Director of Engineering and robotics. He is responsible for implementing cutting-edge platforms to meet future digitalization needs at West and accelerates digital transformation through strategic leadership, spearheading Robotics and AI&ML initiatives in the space of digital health and digital manufacturing.

Abhijit heads the R&D Team in Robotics Engineering, Computer Vision, and AI&ML for manufacturing automation. Abhijit also leads the Global Software Engineering Team, driving digital platform initiatives in software development, enterprise mobility, e-commerce, digital marketing, cloud platform architecture, 3D Immersive experiences, and core platform engineering.

At West, he is esteemed as a Distinguished Scientist, Technologist, and Engineer, and acts as a strategic partner and trusted adviser to the Office of the CTO.

Abhijit Joined West in September 2018 as the Director of Technology. In this role, he built & scaled high-performing engineering teams with more than 250+ engineers, conceptualized forward-thinking products, and delivered solutions across the journey of Digital and transformation. He has also led innovation and execution efficiency by championing an agile engineering culture, driving automation across the software engineering lifecycle, and implementing a robust cloud architecture.   

Before West, Abhijit was associated with Microsoft for 8.7 years and held different roles in Delivery, Development, Engineering, Consulting, and Pre-sales.

At Microsoft, As Development Lead and Architect, he executed several complex projects and delivered solutions to the Worldwide enterprise customers with very high customer satisfaction. Several of these projects have been published as Case Studies on Microsoft’s Official site. As a Presales SME, he won several deals across different technology platforms.

While at Microsoft, Abhijit was one of the technology front runners. He was responsible for adopting and delivering a world-class solution with N+1 Technologies (including Universal Windows Platforms (UWP), Microsoft Azure Platforms, Internet of Things (IoT), Cross-Platform App ( Windows, iOS and Android), and Kinect for Windows) at Microsoft Services India.

He has also incubated HoloLens and Chat Bot delivery capabilities at Microsoft and also built up the team for Azure App Management and Application Support for the highly scalable cloud solution.

At Microsoft, Abhijit has also driven the technology community as a Community Lead and was a recognized Worldwide SME.

He has received “Best Consultant“, “Best Development Lead“, Great People Great Performance (GPGP), and several other awards from Microsoft.

Before Microsoft, he worked with Sapient Corporation Pvt Ltd and HCL Technologies Ltd.

Apart from being a former Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional), he is a Speaker, and author, as well as an avid Technology Evangelist.

Abhijit’s thought leadership & technology acumen are highly regarded in the industry. He has delivered sessions at prestigious Microsoft events like Tech Ready, TechED, Web Camps, Azure Camps, Community Tech Days, Virtual Tech Days, Devdays, developer conferences, etc. He has presented sessions at IIT Delhi, and IIT Bombay on Kinect for Windows SDK organized by Microsoft Research India.

He has authored the following books

Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide ( ISBN-10: 1849692386 ISBN-13: 978-1849692380 )

HoloLens Blueprints – (ISBN-10: 1787281949, ISBN-13: 978-1787281943)

He has been awarded Code Project MVP (Most Valuable Professional) three times in a row for his contribution to the Code Project community. Many of his articles posted on different web forums have been selected as “Article of the Day” at http://asp.net site also featured as a “Spotlight” section. CodeProject.com has awarded him many times for his asp.net articles.

He is the Founder of http://dailydotnettips.com, a community website for developers, which aims to create and share useful .NET Tips and Tricks. He spends his personal time making this site better and shares lots of tricks on development that help day-to-day developers’ activities.

He is a core member of Microsoft User Group – Hyderabad ( MUGH)

Abhijit hails from Kolkata, West Bengal, India, and currently resides in Bangalore, India, with his wife Ananya and their lovely daughter Nilova

Education Qualifications

Executive Program in Sr. Leadership – IIM-Lucknow
MCA [ Master in Computer Application] – From Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India
BCA (Hons) [ Bachelor Of Computer Application ] – From The University of Burdwan, WB, India