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Mini bio
Internet visionary geek, entrepreneur, web data miner & semantic web hacker. General Partner at Morpheus Venture Partners, Bangalore. Computer Sc. grad from Birla Institute, Ranchi
Places of work in last 12 years
Bangalore (2008-), Silicon Valley (1999-2008), Bangalore (1997-99), New Delhi (1996-97)
Interests
Information Retrieval,
Distributed Computing,
Semantic Web,
Enterprise 2.0,
Social systems,
Counter Strike,
U2,
Atari 2600,
Tintin,
Mario Bros.
PCL Mindware,
VeriFone (acquired by HP),
Alekhya Technologies,
iLog (acquired by IBM),
Outride (acquired by Google),
Charles Schwab,
Veritas (acquired by Symantec),
Tejit (acquired by SezWho),
SezWho (acquired by JS-Kit),
Morpheus Venture Partners
Bosses in last 12 years (2 layers)
Manni Gupta,
Vinod Menon,
Babuji Abraham,
Barbara Singer,
Satyen Kothari,
Thor Muller,
Harjit Sabharwal,
Todd Cass,
Mark Johnson,
Dave Blatteler,
Rebecca Aptekar,
Atul Kumar,
Aisling Hassell,
Rene Bonvanie,
Kim Johnston
Tejit is 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.
I wanted to create a live twitter graph of conference goers, wherein people walking at the door create a massive digraph of interconnections at a conference or a large gathering. Instead of using software, the idea was to use markers and chart papers to create one.
SezWho is a cross-site content discovery engine for Social Media platforms. SezWho was acquired by JS-Kit in Mar 2009
Twitterarc
twitterarc, a work-in-progress, is an ajax interface over twitter's public timeline. It's 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.
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.
If you are an entrepreneur or a techie looking for answers, I'm a cheap date!