About
Conning people into thinking I’m intelligent. Since 1982.
- Started as an intern and fresher at Yahoo!
- Totally loved Yahoo!, the coolest company he can ever work for
- Worked on analysis and statistics of Yahoo! Search
- Worked at Adobe in the awesome Flex team
- From the IDE to the data visualization platform
- Wrote a beginner’s programming book on Python
- Open source enthusiast, so released under Creative Commons license
- Popular book: 70-80,000 downloads in the past few years
- Translations by volunteers to Chinese, Italian, German, Indonesian, and many others (Spanish, Arabic, etc.) in progress
- Used by NASA and 8 universities
- Delivered talks on Python at 7 different conferences and colleges
- Wrote another book released in 2008 on the Vim 7 editor for both beginners and advanced users
- Got a very good response with more than 10,000 readers in the first 3 days and 5000+ PDF downloads.
- Lot of nice feedback
- Writes a weblog
- Average of 1200+ readers per day
- Was ranked No. 6 in India according to Indiblogger ranking (as of July 23, 2009)
- Was ranked No. 5 in India according to Invesp Ultimate BlogRank listing (as of August 17, 2009)
- Was once listed on BlogStreet.com as one of India’s Top 100 blogs
- Passionate about Running, Trekking, Cycling
- 1 full marathon, 3 half marathons, 1 duathlon
- Delivered a well-received talk on “Why You Should Run” at BarCampBangalore6
- 16 treks
- Entrepreneurship
- Started right from college by selling Linux CDs in the days of dial-up internet
- Co-founder of the team that created ion, the iPod Charger, as featured in the Economic Times
- Just finished a full-time experiment called IonLab
- Currently a product leader at InfiBeam.com
To know more about him professionally, see his 
LinkedIn profile.
For more daily thoughts, interests and questions, follow his Twitter stream.
Contact: swaroop (at) swaroopch.com
