Reach me at cherian@byjus.com

Reach me at cherian@byjus.com

Cucumbertown started as a network for cooks and later on evolved into a food blogging platform. Today it's the largest niche blogging platform generating thousands of dollars in monthly income for food bloggers to millions of viewers.- Built from 0-N. Multiple million active/users per month. 3000+ bloggers, 100+ countries.- Distributed team across three continents. Ran a ten+ person team of engineers, design, product management, marketing and customer success. - Built culture and process around design, product-first, brainstorming, fast iterations and customer success. - Raised multiple rounds in venture capital from Valley and India. - Managed finance, product, hiring, operations etc. - Pioneered a new business model to generate income for food bloggers via ads + affiliates + premium subscriptions - Negotiated acquisition bids, carved out employee take-home, investor interests, etc. Executed the acquisition – bid, LOI, due diligence, redline negotiation, investor expectations, etc. - Business Person of the Week by Times of India and EconomicTimes. Cover story by The Hindu, featured by Vanitha and other vernacular press. Investors:2012 October - 500 Startups, Naval Ravikant, Sizhao Yang, Maneesh Arora, Helion Venture Partners, Ludlow Ventures, Sunil Kanderi, Chandra Kalle, Klaus von Sayn-Wittgenstein, Richard Chen, Tabreez Verjee - https://angel.co/cucumbertown

Early employee – Fishville, YoVille, PirateWars, MafiaWars, TreasureIsland, Scramble etc. Multiple million is revenue per day games. Engineering, product management, manager etc. Authored and managed several IP engineering projects. Ran a team for cloud cost optimizationsZynga was the stepping-stone for my consumer startup life.

Built the survey monkey for mobiles in a pre smart phone world via SMS. Targeted the enterprise and non-profit market. The project didn’t see much light but I learned a lot. We did a lot of breakthrough engineering work compressing long format surveys into short chat messages.

Part of the team that built software to automate remote login to consumer machines, run scripts, executables etc. to detect problems and reduced support cost. ISPs like Comcast required these agents to be installed on all machines. CEO’s performance award for EmailAssist

Worked as an intern to develop a distributed downloading mechanism for Firefox browser using Bit- torrent concept which was awarded the Redhat scholarship. http://bitaacj.mozdev.org/