Creator of multiple monetized YouTube channels 🎥 YouTube.com/@Hobby_Explorer_Tamil 🎥 YouTube.com/@Hobby_Explorer 😆 Helping my subscribers to live a happy & prosperous life 📂 Managing my YouTube Ad Revenue with regular Bookkeeping & Accounting 📚 Educating myself on how to be a better YouTuber 🚗💨 0 to 100,000 Subscribers in 35 days!

🇺🇸 Hobby Explorer LLC is my umbrella company for all my channels with a combined following of more than 1.3million subscribers. 🇺🇸 I personally answer subscriber Questions at two of my YouTube channels: Youtube.com/@Hobby_Explorer_Tamil and Youtube.com/@Hobby_Explorer 🇺🇸 Idea generation for future video contents. 🇺🇸 Direction, Filming & Editing 🇺🇸 Collaborating with other Creators & Brands 🇺🇸 Guiding my creative team (video editor, thumbnail designer)

🔥 It would be an understatement to say, my team and I played a major role in this company's IPO. 🔥 🫡 Big thanks to our fearless leader Swapnil Shrivastav who is now leading Google Local Ads. 🫡 🔥 I lead the Design & Development of B2C Ads Billing Platform for Nextdoor Ads which processed more than $100m in credit card charges in less than 2.5 years. * Integrated with Stripe as our Primary Payment Processor using their Payment Intent APIs. 🔥 Held weekly meetings with Stripe Account Executives & Nextdoor Head of Ads Product & Nextdoor Accountants, CPAs to chart a path for the Ads Billing Platform. 🔥 Developed a full-stack solution for customers to choose monthly or usage-based cycles. 🔥 Lead the development of Nextdoor's first subscription billing product for small businesses. 🔥 Collaborated with Finance Team to develop pub-sub metrics for Billing Data which eventually gets used for Quarterly Revenue Reports by Nextdoor Finance Teams post IPO.

• Designing and developing product features for Alexa time programs. • Notable projects include: Move/Cancel calendar meeting; Voice sign up and deliver notifications on Alexa Devices. • Scaling backend systems and improving operational efficiency. • Designing and deploying high performance production services with robust monitoring and logging.

• Our App was much appreciated by a small community of "Meme Creators". • Having regular calls with them to understand their world and what to build next. • Predicting Meme Popularity using Facebook pages API • Developed iOS, Android, and Web apps at http://memeyogi.com • Got Accepted into a 10 Week program by Y Combinator to improve upon our project. • We were mentored by Push Bullet CEO Ryan Oldenburg. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-oldenburg-70661694

This was a short but interesting stint for me. When I decided to leave the company, my hiring manager(with good intentions) wished me luck and tried his best to make me stay. Better package. Better work location. But, I had different goals. I wanted to learn Machine Learning and work on Alexa, I got a very good opportunity at Amazon. So I had to move on. 🥹

Kinsey Project: • Collected, Encrypted, and Stored - sensitive, Personally Identifiable Information(PII) on our University Servers. • Assisted Prof. Filippo Menczer in his research for the Kinsey Reporter project. First developer of the kinseyreporter.org • Developed the server side API for Kinseyreporter.org mobile apps iPhone and Android • Developed the API for visualizing the collected survey data in kinseyreporter.org • Developed the first mobile prototype using JQuery mobile for the survey system Other Lab works include: Implemented Google Timeline API to display the twitter hashtag feed on truthy.indiana.edu/movies • Redesigned LANET-VI project website lanet-vi.soic.indiana.edu

• 🥹 On last day of my internship: My Hiring Manager/Mentor told me I was the best Intern he had ever hired!!!!!!! 🥹 • Developed a Workload Management System (WLM) module for Information Server • Wrapped the server as a RESTful web service using apache wink • Proposed various design solutions for complex multi-threaded problems • Addressed numerous exceptions in the system and written unit test cases using JUnit