Atul Kahate

Atul Kahate has over 13 years of experience in Information Technology in India and abroad in various capacities. He has done his Bachelor of Science degree in Statistics and his Master of Business Administration in Computer Systems. He has authored 17 highly acclaimed books on various areas of Information Technology. Several of his books are being used as course textbooks or sources of reference in a number of universities/colleges/IT companies all over the world.

Atul has been writing articles in newspapers about cricket, since the age of 12. He has also authored two books on cricket and has written over 2000 articles on IT and cricket. He has a deep interest in teaching, music, and cricket besides technology. He has conducted several training programs, in a number of educational institutions and IT organisations, on a wide range of technologies. Some of the prestigious institutions where he has conducted training programs, include IIT, Symbiosis, I2IT, MET, Indira Institute of Management, Fergusson College, MIT, VIIT, MIT, Walchand Government Engineering College besides numerous other colleges in India.

He has also worked as the official cricket statistician and scorer in a number of Test and limited overs international cricket matches. He has developed his own database that can provide the latest cricket statistics at any moment. He has contributed to cricket Web sites, such as CricInfo and Cricket Archive. He is a member of the Association of Cricket Statisticians, England, and had also written several articles for the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Scorers of India.

Atul is the winner of several awards, both in India and abroad, including the noted Yuvonmesh Puraskar from Indradhanu-Maharashtra Times. He has worked with Syntel, L&T Infotech, American Express and Deutsche Bank and is currently working with Oracle Financial Services Software Limited (earlier i-flex Solutions Limited) as Head, Technology Practice, for seven years now.

He lives in Pune with his wife Anita, daughter Jui and son Harsh. He owns a Web site (url: www.atulkahate.com) and he can be reached at akahate@gmail.com.