Tara Chklovski, founder and CEO of Iridescent, is making all possible efforts to encourage girls in the US to take up IT careers. Tara moved from India to US in her twenties. She has previously worked as the principal at a K-6 school in India. Tara has consistently and cost-effectively doubled Iridescent’s impact every year by using tech, synergistic partnerships & volunteers. More...

He used to program computers but is now working with a super star like Saif Ali Khan in India’s first Zombie film.  Meet Raj Nidimoru, who gave up a successful career as a Programmer to achieve great success in the competitive world of film making and Bollywood. The Producer-director team of Raj and Krishna D.K. are the men behind India’s first zombie comedy movie Go Goa Gone. More...

Neil D'Souza, Founder and President of Zaya, is one of the Finalists of the 2013 Echoing Green Fellowships.  The prestigious Echoing Green which ‘unleashes global talent to solve the world’s biggest problems’ received nearly 3,000 applications for the Echoing Green and Black Male Achievement Fellowships. With the help of 532 evaluators, 39 Echoing Green finalists were selected. More...

Nine years with Infosys, Vaishali Khandekar then said good bye to software programs in 2004, and co-founded an English language literary print magazine Reading Hour, which now receives submissions from all over the world, from seasoned as well as aspiring writers, including techies. Vaishali talks about her publishing odyssey and how spouse Arun and she share a love for the word. More...

Meet Ketan Bhagat, debut author, and ex-anchor with Doordarshan. You might know his brother Chetan. Yes, Chetan Bhagat. Yet, this Mumbai Oracle techie’s novel on real NRI life, which he says is not at all like a Karan Johar film, was not published easily. The pedigree did nothing to help as one would assume. Ketan Bhagat pulls out all stops in this frank chitchat with Techgoss. More...

After spending over 12 years in the field of nanotechnology, Rashmi Gautam is successfully running a first of its kind venture 'RankJunction' for the last two years. Rashmi, along with her husband, thought of creating a platform that helps predict students' rank in actual exams. Despite  being a unique concept, the ranking platform has been used by over 1 lakh students so far. More...

Anushka Ravishankar says she was called a techie rather inconsistently, and in phases, from 1983 to 1996, but learning a new programming language each time she came back. She has now reinvented herself, after motherhood, as a writer, and finally, a publisher, at Duckbill. Her story could inspire you, if you look to use your talent to build a second career. Here is our chitchat. More...

He has three books of diverse genres under his belt. And the next book due in June 2013 is about Sherlock Holmes in Japan, where Holmes is a vegetarian, and learns Indian Classical Violin. Writer, animal welfare activist, traveller, shutterbug, musician, speaker / facilitator, Vasudev Murthy wears many hats, is a techie, and also drives Functional Consulting at a large IT firm. More...

Peeyush Rai, and his comrade in zoom Dhiraj Kacker, of Canvera.com have been recently recognized as among the top 10 most influential persons in the field of photography by an international magazine. Peeyush Rai, a mechanical engineer, is an IITB alumnus and has been with the software industry since 1993 with organizations such as newScale, Centrata, Oracle, Corio and Euclid. More...

Co-founder of two ventures, Nithya Rajaram, with her vast real world experiences, has a good idea what works best in the technology world.  Her first venture 'Muziboo' - a music sharing and networking site, was the genesis for the next startup. Nithya and colleagues have launched Helpdesk Software SupportBee for small and medium businesses to provide email support to customers. More...