Hi Professor,  
Hope you are doing fine. Last week, we released the latest version of Visual Studio 2013. 
It is a great feeling to see the product that I worked on go live. 
Thank you so much for all your help, advice and encouragement without which I wouldn't be here where I am now. 
As promised, Please find my latest bio and photo attached- 
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It is been a little over 6 months since I joined Microsoft as a Software developer engineer for the ASP.Net MVC and Web API team. 
I am one of the primary developers for ASP.NET scaffolding feature which was released last week along with Visual Studio 2013.  
ASP.Net scaffolding is a new code generation framework for ASP.Net web applications. This new feature allows web developers to 
add fully functional framework code to any kind of web project. For eg: With this feature we will be able to easily create 
web projects having any combinations of the following - Web forms, MVC, Web API and OData. 
It is been really exciting to be part of this great team.
 
I joined Syracuse university in Spring 2011. I took IP, SMA, OOD, DO and DP while I was at Syracuse under Dr. Fawcett 
and It has helped me shape my career tremendously. Recently I have been working a lot on WPF and COM (working with Visual studio shell) 
and I still refer to the notes from SMA, IP and DO class. There have been times here at Microsoft during the design meetings, 
people would be just talking in terms of design patterns and the Design Patterns class has always come to my rescue. 
In the first couple of months since I joined here, I even wrote a Public API for MVC using one of the design patterns 
that I learned in the DP class. The projects that I worked on during the IP class using MVC always helps me to get a 
users perspective when I develop new features for MVC now. The coding guidelines which you asked us to follow while developing projects 
for your class has always helped me to stand out from the crowd. I strongly encourage any one planning to come to Syracuse 
to take all the courses. 
 
Thank you Dr. Fawcett
 
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I will keep in touch.
Thanks, 
Vijay Ramakrishnan
@vijayrkn