Interview with Melchizedec Sundararaj, Founder - CloudInfra
CloudInfra is an Information Technology and Services company founded by Melchizedec Sundararaj in the year 2012. CloudInfra builds soft infrastructure services on the cloud. They specialize in Big Data, Distributed, Text Processing, Cloud, Linux Commands, Unix Power Tools, etc.
Melchizedec Sundararaj aka Melchi completed engineering in Computer Science from College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai in the year 2002. Melchi then worked as a Design Engineer with Texas Instruments and as a Developer with Trilogy for almost three years. Melchi later worked with Google as a Software Developer for close to seven years before starting up with #-Link-Snipped-#.
In an exclusive interview with CrazyEngineers.com, we got Melchi to talk about his experiences at CloudInfra, the research behind CloudInfra, how does the team advertise CloudInfra, what made him quit his job at Google and become an entrepreneur, how he encourages innovative ideas and a lot more. Read on!
Melchizedec Sundararaj
1. Hi. Could you give a brief overview of CloudInfra?
Melchi: CloudInfra makes available top notch intelligence (like that of Google,Amazon, etc) for any website. Recommending the right products based on user browsing behavior, better search relevance etc are part of it.
2. It took you years of research to startup with CloudInfra. Could you tell us in detail about the project?
Melchi: Future lies in Data and Personalization. It nicely matched with my passion and core expertise. CloudInfra is about pluggable intelligence infrastructure. Machine learning and artificial intelligence on massive data sets have clearly proven their merit. CloudInfra makes adopting them very easy, hiding all the involved complexity.
3. How did you advertise CloudInfra?
Melchi: We were part of Microsoft Accelerator and are partners with Amazon AWS. We got a good web coverage at techcrunch and other articles.
4. To what do you attribute your success?
Melchi: We believe our big data platform CloudBash gives us huge leverage over existing platforms (like Hadoop). We believe this will be a game changer. Of course we will surely attribute our success to our team members.
The team at CloudInfra
5. How difficult was it to leave for job at Google - where you worked for more than seven years - for starting up with CloudInfra?
Melchi: Google always encourages people to innovate and take risks. It was that culture that encouraged me to do this.
6. What are your responsibilities as the business owner?
Melchi: Taking the right decisions at the right time.
7. Do you ever feel maybe working for someone would have been better?
Melchi: May be in a parallel universe 😀
8. If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be?
Melchi: Follow your heart, don't take any advice, including this.
9. If you wanted to encourage innovative ideas, how would you go about it?
Melchi:
Melchi: Badly failing to be funny. An engineer at heart and soul.
11. Thank you for your time. Any message for our readers?
Melchi:
Melchizedec Sundararaj aka Melchi completed engineering in Computer Science from College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai in the year 2002. Melchi then worked as a Design Engineer with Texas Instruments and as a Developer with Trilogy for almost three years. Melchi later worked with Google as a Software Developer for close to seven years before starting up with #-Link-Snipped-#.
In an exclusive interview with CrazyEngineers.com, we got Melchi to talk about his experiences at CloudInfra, the research behind CloudInfra, how does the team advertise CloudInfra, what made him quit his job at Google and become an entrepreneur, how he encourages innovative ideas and a lot more. Read on!
Melchizedec Sundararaj
1. Hi. Could you give a brief overview of CloudInfra?
Melchi: CloudInfra makes available top notch intelligence (like that of Google,Amazon, etc) for any website. Recommending the right products based on user browsing behavior, better search relevance etc are part of it.
2. It took you years of research to startup with CloudInfra. Could you tell us in detail about the project?
Melchi: Future lies in Data and Personalization. It nicely matched with my passion and core expertise. CloudInfra is about pluggable intelligence infrastructure. Machine learning and artificial intelligence on massive data sets have clearly proven their merit. CloudInfra makes adopting them very easy, hiding all the involved complexity.
3. How did you advertise CloudInfra?
Melchi: We were part of Microsoft Accelerator and are partners with Amazon AWS. We got a good web coverage at techcrunch and other articles.
4. To what do you attribute your success?
Melchi: We believe our big data platform CloudBash gives us huge leverage over existing platforms (like Hadoop). We believe this will be a game changer. Of course we will surely attribute our success to our team members.
The team at CloudInfra
5. How difficult was it to leave for job at Google - where you worked for more than seven years - for starting up with CloudInfra?
Melchi: Google always encourages people to innovate and take risks. It was that culture that encouraged me to do this.
6. What are your responsibilities as the business owner?
Melchi: Taking the right decisions at the right time.
7. Do you ever feel maybe working for someone would have been better?
Melchi: May be in a parallel universe 😀
8. If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be?
Melchi: Follow your heart, don't take any advice, including this.
9. If you wanted to encourage innovative ideas, how would you go about it?
Melchi:
Give him the pain of executing the idea and the reward of successful execution.10. How would you describe your personal style?
Melchi: Badly failing to be funny. An engineer at heart and soul.
11. Thank you for your time. Any message for our readers?
Melchi:
Grow your skills and have a "do it" attitude. Spend less time deciding what to do, and rather do.
Replies
-
Ankita KatdareVery to the point answers. I am guessing it's difficult to survive/remain afloat in the domain you guys have chosen. There's just too much competition from not just other startups, but bigger MNCs too. The only way to do great is offer something that no one else does or better some process in the organisation.
Would love to hear the thought of the startup owner on this. -
melchiThanks Ankita for your sincere question. Being first (doing something that no one else does) is not a necessary condition for being the Best. Apple didnt make the first cell phone. Competition is a good sign that there is money to be made there, having MNCs too says there is Big Money 😁.
-
Ankita Katdare😁 Good to have you here #-Link-Snipped-# And I couldn't agree more. I just wanted to say that those here looking to startup shouldn't be bothered about offering something out-of-the-box or pathbreaking new. It can be an existing product or service, just a better version of it (thereby rendering it the best in the lot!).
You are reading an archived discussion.
Related Posts
Quote:
For many scientists working in the field the thought of dragging around heavy and expensive equipment is simply unimaginable. Even the ever useful microscope may become a luxury they...
From what I understand, Liquid Electricity isn't real (yet). As a part of silent films, it was used to showcase a liquid substance that's generally glowing and stored in bottles....
Project Abstract / Summary : ABSTRACT
Web GIS is an advanced technology to manage and display all geographical location on earth surface. This paper deals with capital investment of govt...
Project Abstract / Summary : Mobile phone security has become an important aspect of security issues in wireless multimedia communications. In this project, we focus on security issues related to...
With the Mobile World Congress just around the corner, smartphone manufacturers have begun to stir up the excitement by announcing their new offerings. LG Electronics has begun the proceedings by...