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Bala Menon
Building something new - helping decouple compute from storage.
14.7
Years of Experience
Education
newcastle university, atomic energy central school
Companies
kawa space, various companies, venture foundry india, ducktile labs, various companies, hash.me, livemobs inc., marks and spencer
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Experience
2019 - 2020
kawa space
Founder
CTO/CPO Intelligence from space, for your business — as they happen.
2016 - 2019
various companies
Technical Product Specialist
Built products with friends (some of which grew into successful companies) that started off as experiments. Healthcare, urban mobility, payments and hyperlocal.
2016 - 2016
venture foundry india
Product / Tech / Strategy (Founding team)
Strategy, product and everything in between for products like Creditmate (https://creditmate.in). VentureFoundry was born as a product studio – a startup building startups building things until we found something to focus everything on. Eventually, we found it in the lending (and now collections) business.
2012 - 2015
ducktile labs
Founder
Individually personalised recommendations at scale for the publishing and news industries. Ducktile pioneered editorial intelligence, individual user personalisation and empowered publishers to build and monetise owned audiences.
2011 - 2012
various companies
Consultant – Product Strategy
Led digital transformation, strategy and product ops as an independent consultant for large media / broadcasting outlets.
2009 - 2011
hash.me
Founder
Researched, patented and commercialised message routing on telecom networks – implemented both at the carrier level (VAS) and as a software-as-a-service.
2008 - 2009
livemobs inc.
Co-Founder
Built a platform to serve answers to natural language queries routed to a series of micro-apps before conversational interfaces and apps were a thing. Didn't fly commercially.
2007 - 2008
marks and spencer
Business Operations
Store ops, stocking things, manning tills, etc.
Experience
6 Skills
Founder
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Payments
Senior Software Engineer
storage
strategy
Education
2005 - 2008
newcastle university
Attended
Computer Systems Engineering
2000 - 2002
atomic energy central school