Sudarshana (Sophie) Banerjee

Bragging Rights

#Built documentation for ManyWho (now Boomi Flow) from scratch, working with the ManyWho chief executive, and team mates.

# Built a technology news site from scratch. TechTaffy has roughly 41,600 unique visitors a month. (Source: Cloudflare.)

#Have roughly 9.2K followers on various social media combined.

# Started working as a chess reporter at 17. Switched to writing on enterprise technology at 21.

# Have been covering and/or interviewing C-level executives and thought leaders from around the world, for over a decade. Bill Gates? Yes. John Nash? Yes. The list goes on. Have covered three Indian prime ministers, including the current one.

#Fluent in Bengali and Hindi. Have been published in both the languages. Have been published in Mandarin (translated).

#Have working knowledge of Urdu and Sanskrit.

# A technology news site helped start was acquired by Dow Jones.

# Hosted a weekly lightning talk series at Hacker Dojo, anecdotally the largest hacker space in the world, for close to two years.

#Organize the Bay Area's largest (anecdotally) chess meetup with 1,144 members.

#Used to play competitive chess, and represented state at a couple of national events.

# Was board member at Stanford University, CCIS.