Parashar Shah works for Microsoft as a Senior Program/Product Manager in Azure Machine Learning platform engineering team. He is also an Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Cloud, Machine Learning and Big Data.Prior to Microsoft, he worked for Alcatel-Lucent/Nokia Networks/Bell Labs where he led engagements with global telecom operators (across North America, Europe, Middle East and APAC) as a solution architect/product manager. Parashar has a MBA from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore & B.E. (E.C.) from Nirma Institute of Technology, Ahmedabad. He also co-founded a Carpool startup in India. His first book, 'Hands-On Machine Learning with Azure: Build powerful models with cognitive machine learning and artificial intelligence', was published in Nov 2018. He has filed 5 patents (in published state). His interests spans across Photography, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, AutoML, Big Data and Internet of Things (IoT).