Ashish Kanwar is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft India with over twenty-five years in enterprise technology, including two decades at Microsoft. He has designed and shipped four AI solutions adopted by more than 30,000 users, published a four-part series on enterprise AI adoption, and built a production-tested delivery lifecycle for AI at organizational scale. A three-time Microsoft Global Hackathon winner, he has led cross-geography teams across the US, India, Canada, and Latin America. This book grew from a pattern he kept seeing across organizations and industries: heavy investment in AI capability, paired with persistent friction in making that capability land. The gap, he found, was rarely technical. It was structural. Ashish is based in India and can be found on LinkedIn.

Abhishek Kanwar is a Senior Software Engineer at Cisco with seventeen years in networking, telecom, and systems engineering. He has built data plane systems for enterprise routers, designed security enforcement at the protocol level, and delivered telecom infrastructure for operators across India, the Middle East, and Europe. His career has been spent in environments where systems must be right the first time — where judgment is designed into architecture, not left to improvisation. That perspective shapes his contribution to Skilling in the Age of AI, co-authored with his brother Ashish Kanwar. The book's insistence on operational confidence, judgment design, and the discipline required to move AI from prototype to production comes directly from Abhishek's experience building systems where failure is not an option. Abhishek is based in Bangalore, India and can be found on LinkedIn.