Internet geek, entrepreneur, web data miner & semantic web hacker. Crossed to the 'dark-side' as founding partner at The Morpheus, a seed stage venture accelerator. Back as an entrepreneur as Co-founder, Bitzer Mobile (acquired by Oracle). Computer Sc. grad from Birla Institute, Ranchi
Pastoral locations
Silicon Valley (2013-), Bangalore (2009-2012), Silicon Valley (1999-2008), Bangalore (1997-99), New Delhi (1996-97)
Interests
Information Retrieval,
Distributed Computing,
Semantic Web,
Enterprise 2.0,
Social systems,
Mobile Computing,
Counter Strike,
U2,
Atari 2600,
Tintin,
Mario Bros.
Bitzer Mobile,
The Morpheus,
SezWho (acquired by Echo),
Tejit (acquired by SezWho),
Veritas (acquired by Symantec),
Alekhya Technologies,
iLog (acquired by IBM),
Outride (acquired by Google),
Charles Schwab,
VeriFone (acquired by HP),
PCL Mindware
Past bosses
Atul Kumar,
Kim Johnston,
Aisling Hassell,
Rene Bonvanie,
Dave Blatteler,
Rebecca Aptekar,
Harjit Sabharwal,
Satyen Kothari,
Thor Muller,
Babuji Abraham
Sep 08, 2012 Keynote on Enterprise Mobility at TiE Smashup, IIT, Mumbai
Aug 21, 2012 Panel discussion on 'Breaking the myth of hybrid cloud' with Satish Gidugu and Janakiraman MSV at NASSCOM Cloud summit, Bangalore
Aug 09, 2012 Panel Discussion on 'Seizing the Whitespaces in Cloud' with Richard Hershman, Shabir Momin and Saurabh Chandra at NASSCOM Emergeout Conclave, New Delhi
Sep 22, 2010 Speaker/Judge at Business Plan Competition at Welingkars Institute, Bangalore
Aug 10, 2010 Guest Lecture at Business Planning workshop at Bengal Engineering College, Kolkata organized by National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN)
Jul 18, 2010 'Ford Motor Company c.1902'. Guest Lecture on presenting a business plan at IIIT organized by National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), Bangalore
Bitzer Mobile's Mobile App Management (MAM) platform for enabling secure mobility to enterprise workforce. It obviates the need of having a VPN, makes Mobile Device Management (MDM) optional and brings native Microsoft Active Directory authentication to iPad, iPhone and Android devices.
faster88
faster88 was a kitchen-sink project to get the feel of social recruiting on facebook.
SezWho
SezWho was a cross-site content discovery engine for Social Media platforms. SezWho was acquired by Echo in Mar 2009
Tejit
Tejit was a discovery engine for Web data. Initial focus was on aggregating semantically equivalent data around people, movies and other nouns of interest. I founded this in 2007 and was later acquired by SezWho.
Twitterarc
twitterarc, was an ajax interface over twitter's public timeline. It was a project aimed at visualizing twitter's public data in different ways.
Blog Mykrokozm
This was precursor project to Tejit. It was a greasemonkey script which did reverse inline linkage of linkbacks to a particular permalink within the blog post. Later on it was extended to Internet Explorer using bookmarklets.
Marketing campaign hierarchy
In my stint as an marketer-cum-engineer at Symantec; architected the multi-level campaign hierarchy which mimiced how budgets were allocated in geos and departments. The idea was conceptualized by my then boss Atul Kumar.
Personalized proposal for high-touch sales
This was developed for Symantec inside sales organization to help them convert leads into opportunities.
Convex: Matching of resumes with job description using NLP
Convex was web-service for matching resumes to job descriptions using concept extraction. This was implemented using content classification using Ontology of human resources knowledge domain.
WSDL Generator
WSDL Generator automatically generated WSDL files from a given set of Java classes.
Gaxl (Graphical Analysis of XML Logs)
gaxl was a Java-Swing based GUI for analyzing xml logs formatted using Log4J and XMLFormatter. It had low memory footprint which supported streamed log files, local logs and push.
Web directory based topic classifier
Given a link (or webpage), this application would automatically assign the url a leaf node in a web directory. Open Directory Project (ODP) was used as a learning corpus.
