Nick Pinheiro is an experienced and award-winning software engineer, technologist, cloud advocate, marketer, speaker and author. He is Principal for AI, Cloud & SaaS at Microsoft where he develops intelligent cloud-based, web and mobile solutions for the world’s largest organizations. Known as the authority on building SaaS solutions on Microsoft Azure, Nick is also the creator of the Azure SaaS Development Kit (ASDK). Furthermore, Nick is the Founder of ‘Modern Appz’, a technology startup that develops various innovative consumer-based SaaS services. Nick holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Information Systems and a Bachelor’s Degree in Management with a concentration in Electronic Commerce, both from Boston University.