Nov 1, 2021Nineteen months laterMy entire team and I were proud to say that we were perfectly normal, thank you very much. When I woke up on the dull, gray Tuesday our story starts, there was nothing about the cloudy sky outside to suggest that strange and mysterious things would soon be happening all…Back To Work5 min readBack To Work5 min read
Jul 1, 2019Five years, five memoriesThat was eleven years ago. July 2nd, 2008 — the day I began my life at Sastra. I vividly remember that fateful Wednesday morning. Fifteen years before that, I used to call PS my home.Startup6 min readStartup6 min read
Oct 12, 2018A decade of destinyIt recently dawned upon me that I’ve spent more time outside of college than in it. But it seems like those four (or six, depending on how you look at it) years are suspended in time; somewhere in the back of my mind, and I always feel like I just…History10 min readHistory10 min read
Jul 17, 2018100/100There was one week in my final year at Sastra which was perhaps the most eventful week in my entire college life. The one event that I had been waiting for, that one moment that defined my college life, that was when Kuruksastra (KS) 12 happened. What is usually a…Startup8 min readStartup8 min read
Published in The Freshworks Engineering Blog·Jun 6, 2018Data Lake at Freshworks: Part 2Note: This post was originally posted on the Freshworks Blog. Data plays a key part in how products are designed at Freshworks. In the first part, we looked at how we designed and built our Data Lake, and how we opened up our diverse data and made it accessible from…Big Data8 min readBig Data8 min read
Published in The Freshworks Engineering Blog·May 7, 2018How we built ‘Streaming TopK Instrumentation’ to minimize server CPU cyclesNote: This post was originally posted on the Freshworks blog. Freshworks and its products are all based on a multi-tenant approach, and thus, understanding the top ‘k’ accounts (or any ‘item’) for any service is needed for various purposes, be it for general tracking or even sharding. …JavaScript5 min readJavaScript5 min read
Jan 17, 2018Mafia and meMafia has always been a game close to my heart. My juniors from college introduced me to the game, and I vividly remember the Mafia marathon we had from 2011–2012. We ushered in the New Year playing a long game of Mafia. Twelve odd college students, across years, packed inside…Chennai Floods5 min readChennai Floods5 min read
Published in Freshworks Insider·May 26, 2015Meeting customers and growing the business at FreshdeskMeet Ryan Clarke. Ryan graduated from the University of Arizona with a major in Communications and minor in Business. He recently joined Freshdesk as an Account Executive, working from our San Francisco headquarters. In this interview, Ryan tells us about his experience interviewing at and joining Freshdesk. What made you…5 min read5 min read
Published in Freshworks Insider·Feb 18, 2015Setting up a base for Freshdesk in EuropeSimon tells us how Freshdesk expanded its Sales team across continents. Say hello to Simon Johnson. Simon is the Director of Sales, EMEA at Freshdesk. Since he joined six months ago, he has spearheaded all of our operations in the EMEA region, including setting up our regional office in the…5 min read5 min read
Published in Freshworks Insider·Sep 18, 2014Building stellar products for a global customer baseMeet Abishek Sridharan. Abi is the Lead Product Manager at Freshdesk. He sets worldwide product strategy and ensures Freshdesk addresses our customers’ needs. Formerly an engineer working for a major telecommunications company, he made the switch to management, and has been with Freshdesk through all its growth. Tell us how…5 min read5 min read
