Atanu Banerjee is a member of the Architecture Strategy Team at Microsoft, where he works on next generation architectures. He joined Microsoft from i2 Technologies, where he worked in various roles for more than 7 years. He was chief architect for one of their supply chain management product lines, and prior to that served as development manager, product architect, team lead, and software developer at various times. During that time he wrote a lot of code, designed new solutions, and worked with some large manufacturing customers. Prior to joining i2, Atanu worked at Aspen Technologies in the advanced control systems group, designing and implementing model predictive control systems for the process industry. Atanu received a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in 1996, and holds a bachelors degree from IIT Delhi, India.