Co-founder @TripThirsty @Ideophone.
Redefining journeys.
Information-retrieval expert.
Conceived & built @Yahoo Indichat, 5 million users.
M.Tech IIIT-B
• Conceived and built Yahoo! Indichat used by millions of messenger users.
• Yahoo! CEO award for "contributions beyond the call of duty" relating to
a) rapid developing a crawler for Yahoo! Subscriptions Search and
b) facilitation of a partnership with and a donation for the Wikimedia Foundation, its biggest then.
• Lead a tiger team to build a multi-vertical web information extraction platform called Buddhi at Ziva.
• Lead the development of the first content match system for delivering ads based on URL terms at InMobi.
• Founded and co-developed Visaineri, an open-source metric prosody parser for Tamil poetry.
• Gold Medalist, Indian Institute of Information Technology – Bangalore.
• “Young IT Professional Award – 2003” from the Computer Society of India for developing a meta-search engine for Indian languages, Thedal.
• “Eureka - Honourable Mention Award” by the Indian Institute of Science.
Describe the most impressive thing you've done.