About Me — Ruby Valappil

Ruby Valappil
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3 min readJan 22, 2022

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On the way back from Kilimanjaro

My Full Name is Weird — It’s so weird that I can easily create a unique id on any platform in the first attempt. Ruby Kallazhi Valappil is my full name. I’m a Software Developer by profession and passion. Writing makes me happy and I feel a certain degree of freedom in expressing my thoughts through writing.

Failed Initiatives — My subscription-based newsletter didn’t work as I expected and I had to shut it down after publishing close to 60 editions. I also published an e-book, that was a collection of interviews of entrepreneurs who followed their passion. Only 5 copies of that were ever sold.

My friends and I ideated a tech product, a notification app for schools and colleges to inform important updates to parents. This was before WhatsApp and other chat software became popular. Our prospective clients showed interest as well but the team collapsed as a few got onsite assignments and others were in different locations and meeting up for discussions itself became a pain very quickly.

Coming out of a snowstorm — on the India-Nepal border

I Love Wilderness — Mount Kilimanjaro, Colorado 14ers, Himalayan Mountains, Western Ghats, Mount Washington, and many more peaks have been kind to me so far and I wish the journey never ends. Staying in…

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