Balaji Viswanathan

An Indian writer, author, entrepreneur and engineer

Most followed person on Quora

His Journey so far....

• Presently, he is the Vice President of Products at Invento
• Co-Founder at Agni Innovation Labs
• Founder at NalandaU
• Software Design Engineer at Microsoft
• CEO & Co-Founder at Be Limitless Inc
• Co-Founder at Zingfin.com

Educational Background

• Master of Business Administration, Babson College
  
• MS in Computer Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County
• BE in Computer Engineering, Thiagarajar College Of Engineering

Honors & Awards

• The top-writer (on Quora) of the year(s) 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 with over 20 articles published on Forbes, Slate, Business Insider and other places
• Finalist in HP's Asian Young Inventors Awards 2004
• Two times recipient of Gold Medal (2003, 2004) and once silver meal (2002) from National Design and Research forum India for research work
• Honorable Mention in Asia finals of ACM programming contest, IEEE Computer-UPE International award of Academic Excellence 2004
• IEEE Lance Stafford Larsen Student paper award 2004, Silver medal in IEE's International level technical essay contest
• Medal of Excellence for Best Outgoing student from Thiagarajar College of Engineering

Won personal audience with Indian President Dr. Kalam twice in his office to discuss on research work

• Also he loves writing and blogging.
• He is the author of  From Tryst to Tendulkar: The History of Independent India a book on the history of contemporary India
• Balaji has written more than 3,300 answers and has more than 202,830 followers on Quora

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