Blog Reviews

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Atul Chitnis says: “What’s awesome is @swaroopch’s blog posts, and how they MAKE me & others think.”

Snehal Pal says: “His blog is an amazing assortment of advice and contains stories of life as a techie, startups and hacks.”

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Prashish Rajbhandari says:“Reading @swaroopch ‘s blog. Very informative and inspirational. Thanks. :)”

Sitakanta says: “The blog of @swaroopch is responsible for me leaving job to do this mad thing called a startup. So beware :)”

Vinay H R says:“The more I read @swaroopch blogs, the more inspiration I get from it.”

Krishna Bharadwaj says: “I consider Paul Graham and Joel Spolsky as some of the greatest technical writers. Swaroop C H writes some amazing articles as well!”

Avinash Kundaliya says:“Yeah! seriously man.. awesome blog..”

Chaitanya Nettem says: “I love your blog. I just love it.”

A R Karthick says:“Your blog posts show great clarity of thought.”

Abhinav Upadhyay says: “Your blog posts inspired me quite a lot during my early days at college :-)”

Chirag Gupta says:“I’ve been reading your blog for so long (since 2004 I think) that I find it funny when people discover it now :)”

Chirag Gupta says: “I think I started following his blog like 7 years back. Those days, I didn’t even use RSS much :)”

H N Prashanth says: “you got yourself hardcore followers of your blog, we are watching every move! ;-)”

Prateek Narang says: “I like your writing….it makes me think.”

Laurentiu Alexe says: “I’ve discovered your blog after downloading the Python book. Very nice book and amazing blog. Thanks!”

Aditya Bhushan says: “your views and answers (will) help a lot of people.”

News

This blog has been featured as a recommended read in Outlook Magazine, for B-school students.
This blog has been consistently rated as one of the top ten blogs in India, out of 20,000 blogs listed at Invesp BlogRank. Read about how it happened.
You’ll find interesting stories here about my startup experiences and my lifehacks.
Me, an influential GitHub user? Check out my GitHub projects.

About Me

Started as an intern and fresher at Yahoo!
- Totally loved Yahoo!, the coolest company (back then) he can ever work for
- Worked on analysis and statistics of Yahoo! Search, called Yahoo! Buzz Index (a product for advertisers)
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: Millions of downloads
- 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
- Used as a reference book in MIT OpenCourseWare for their “Introduction to Computer Science and Programming” 2011 class
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 2500+ 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
- Read how his blog got him a job
Passionate about Running, Trekking, Cycling
- 1 full marathon (42km), 4 half marathons (21km), 1 duathlon (10km running + 10km cycling)
- 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
- Finished a full-time experiment called IonLab
- Previously a product leader at InfiBeam.com working on projects such as Crossword.in and Build a Bazaar.
- Currently working as a consultant with Automatic.