1. Worked 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
2. Worked at Adobe in the awesome Flex team
   • Range of things from the IDE to the data visualization platform
3. 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
4. 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
5. Writes a weblog
   • Average of 1200 readers per day
   • Listed the No. 6 blog in India, out of 7798 blogs listed at Indiblogger, as of Jun 27, 2009
   • Was once listed on BlogStreet.com as one of India’s Top 100 blogs
6. 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
7. 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
8. Now full-time at The IONLAB working on converting “Ideas to Execution.”

Contact:    swaroop (at) swaroopch.com