Awards
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
First introduced in 1993, the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award has very strict criteria and is conferred annually to the best and brightest technical community leaders. To be placed into consideration for the MVP Award, a nomination referral must be first submitted by either a Microsoft Full Time Employee (FTE) or Microsoft MVP, who has a good understanding of how the candidate displayed passion, community spirit , leadership and most importantly demonstrated positive impact and influence within the technical community. Once a recommendation is submitted, a candidate’s profile is reviewed by the judges. The specific award criteria vary from year to year due to changes in available products and technologies, but Microsoft emphasizes the overall importance of leadership when it comes to sharing knowledge and advice, including the ability to “lead others to result in a much bigger impact … than what you could contribute as an individual.”
Ashraf is internationally recognized software architect specialized in designing and building high-performance web applications in cloud computing environment. A graduate of Dhaka’s American International University-Bangladesh, he successfully developed and led complex projects of critical importance to these entities, during the course of which he made outstanding engineering accomplishments. These achievements were so impressive that has been conferred with the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in ASP.NET category by Microsoft since 2007 for several times, which is a rare honor and prestigious reorganization among the developers around the world.
MVP Reconnect Member
Ashraf is a member of MVP Reconnect Organization, an organization gathering tech leaders and experts in Microsoft technology. The program is very exclusive, being open only to former laureates of Most Valuable Professional award, with a minimum of 1 full MVP Award year. The list of the criteria includes candidate’s significant contribution to global community of software specialists, displayed passion, community spirit, leadership and most importantly demonstrated positive impact and influence within the technical community. Members must be in good standing, meaning that they must have no Code of Conduct or NDA violations.
MVP Reconnect is the official channel for MVPs to stay connected to other community leaders and Microsoft. This unique technical community brings together former MVPs to stayconnected and grow their networks, learn about cutting-edge technology, share their insights, provide mentorship and attend exclusive events. The members have the opportunity to participate in an exclusive networking channel, events, and private discussions, as well as local and global offerings. They are also able to share their experiences with other experts and coach others to take full advantage of all the opportunities that the MVP Award can provide.
Digital ART Automation Hackathon Winner
DIGITAL ART ‘AUTOMATION’ HACKATHON competition was organized by Schroders and held in January 2018 in Singapore. The main goal of the competition was selecting the team offering the best software simulating interactive human conversation by using key pre-calculated user phrases and auditory or text-based signals (artificial conversational entity).
Ashraf’s team won the first prize of the completition, which created Dilbot – Diligence notification and workflow creation bot.