Manoj Waikar has been developing software for close to 15 years now. He started writing desktop applications in VB6 and has used almost all of the .NET and C# versions to write enterprise software. His urge to improve his craft led him to explore, and eventually use, open source frameworks such as NHibernate, Spring.NET, NUnit, Moq, and so on, which, until a few years ago, were not commonly used in the .NET world.

He admires RoR (Ruby on Rails) and thanks Microsoft for ASP.NET MVC and Web API. Due to some of the limitations of server-side MVC frameworks, he introduced AngularJS in one of the UK-based start-ups that he worked with and used it to great success.

He is interested in functional programming and loves Clojure (a Lisp for the JVM) and ClojureScript (which compiles to JavaScript). Of late, he has also started exploring F# and considers it the best language for the .NET platform.