Anurag Shrivastava

Anurag Shrivastava is an entrepreneur, blogger, and manager living in Almere near Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He started his IT journey by writing a small poker program on a mainframe computer 30 years back, and he fell in love with software technology. In his 24-year career in IT, he has worked for companies of various sizes, ranging from Internet start-ups to large system integrators in Europe. Anurag kick-started the Agile software movement in North India when he set up the Indian business unit for the Dutch software consulting company Xebia. He led the growth of Xebia India as the managing director of the company for over 6 years and made the company a well-known name in the Agile consulting space in India. He also started the Agile NCR Conference, which has become a heavily visited annual event on Agile best practices, in the New Delhi Capital Region. Anurag became active in the big data space when he joined ING Bank in Amsterdam as the manager of the customer intelligence department, where he set up their first Hadoop cluster and implemented several transformative technologies, such as Netezza and R, in his department. He is now active in the payment technology and APIs, using technologies such as Node.js and MongoDB. Anurag loves to cycle on the reclaimed island of Flevoland in the Netherlands. He also likes listening to Hindi film music.