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Strategic software engineering and product leader with business acumen and…

Articles by Murali

  • Learning from the 10 rules of the Canoe

    Taking ferry rides across the Puget Sound is a great experience by itself. Last week, in my ferry ride on M/V…

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  • Am I learning? checking in

    Student (final semester): All exams are over. Done with learning! Not so soon! "There are 48 more exams to go," I…

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  • Step up and care for the heart

    Almost every month, if not every week, we hear about someone affected by heart disease. This week is no exception.

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  • Thanks! Another year of learning

    Living in the northern part of the universe, we see the spring season now. Flowers started blooming in the past few…

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  • Small Steps help us handle Big Changes

    In the past few days, I have been talking to many people facing the changes underway. Some people sought out changes to…

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  • From a book: Leadership Lessons with The Beatles

    Before my birth, The Beatles rocked the world to new music that blended classic music and traditional pop in innovative…

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  • Why we remember teachers and the lessons I learned

    Each country has its own traditional day for celebrating teachers and teaching (see here). In India, Sep 5th is…

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  • Sponsor 2020 Internships

    Spark SIP has placed tens of interns at tens of local businesses and at the University of Washington for summer…

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  • Culture Shift, Transformation, and Change - take small steps

    Yesterday when I crossed the SR520 bridge from Seattle to Redmond, I saw the beautiful set of trees with fall foliage…

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  • Completed 1-year at Starbucks

    I just completed 1-year as a partner at Starbucks. I am fortunate to have the opportunity to work here.

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Volunteer Experience

  • Investment Chair

    Guindy Alumni Angels

    - Present 6 years 4 months

    Guindy Alumni Angels (GA) invests and advises more than a dozen early stage companies. I lead diligence and team development to conduct deal diligence. Our investments span across B2B, B2C, software, ecommerce, material science, climate tech, and robotics. Also co-started CEG Field Insights to bring insights about industry to the CEG group.

  • Board Member

    Women Entrepreneurs SoCal Angels Fund

    - Present 4 years

    Driving investment in female-founded/led ventures. Leading deal sourcing, due diligence, and portfolio management for a fund with 12 target investments (4 completed). Collaborating with a diverse group of investors to identify high-potential companies and provide strategic guidance for growth.

  • Advisor

    Spark SIP

    - 6 years 10 months

    Education

    Fostering the next generation of STEM talent. Successfully mentored and placed 100+ high school students in enriching STEM internships, connecting them with business and project owners to gain hands-on experience and develop critical skills.

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    Board Member

    Cartogram, Inc

    - Present 7 years 9 months

    Science and Technology

    Advice the board on Technology, Team building and Business strategy.

Projects

  • Microsoft Points

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    Microsoft Points was a great startup to create the largest micropayment system for gaming systems. I led efforts to create the technical foundation and project to deilver the systems that were adopted by Xbox Live and Zune.

    Other creators
    • Keith Kegley
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  • IIS (Web Server from Microsoft)

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    Internet Information Server is the industry leading web server that comes with Windows Servers. I joined as the second engineer on the project and worked on 5 releases of the server and worked on several technical and leadership roles. I formed and led the performance efforts to produce fast servers and improved reliability using out-of-process execution model, amongst other innovations.

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  • Memory Managers

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    Memory Managers for multi-threaded systems are fun, exciting and challenging. While building scalable web servers (IIS) I faced and solved several challenges - some were shared on MSDN. Inspired further I collaborated with Paul Larson to create LKMalloc (see ACM reference
    http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=286880&CFID=92558612&CFTOKEN=88035029).

    Other creators
    • Per Ake Larson
    See project

Languages

  • Tamil

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • English

    Full professional proficiency

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