Shankar Ganesh

Summary

(Cross-posted from www.shankarganesh.com)

Shankar Ganesh is 18 years old. He's pursuing his bachelor's degree in engineering, specialising in Information Technology at SASTRA University, Thanjavur. He blogs during the free time he's got, and also writes for other websites and magazines. He has also appeared in a few podcasts.

Shankar's works have reached the front page of Digg a number of times, bookmarked by thousands of people on Del.icio.us, driven hundreds of thousands of StumbleUpon visitors and even got mentioned in Lifehacker - the world's most popular blog.

He hails from Tamil Nadu, India. He's a big fan of A.R. Rahman and loves listening to his music all day. He also has a penchant for learning new words everyday. He keeps exploring the world, one blog at a time ;)

Shankar earns quite a sum every month and likes to either save it up or buy his favourite magazines and gadgets.

Skills

Blogging

5 years

I've been writing at KillerTechTips.com for quite a while. It's a 6,000-reader strong blog, and receives over 200,000+ pageviews every month. I've previously written for MakeUseOf.com. Some of my works have also appeared on Problogger.net, the unofficial Google Blog and the How-To Geek!

Online Marketing

2 years

I interned at Zoho for over a month and managed to get their quiz maker app, Zoho Challenge, featured on the BBC: http://bbc.in/ih1bNc

As a result of my efforts, pageviews to the site almost doubled, resulting in increased sign ups.

Education

Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy

2009 - 2013 B. Tech. I.T.

St. Thomas Matriculation And Higher Secondary School

1987 - 2009

Experience

Zoho Corporation

Jun 2010 - Jun 2010 Online Marketing Intern

Worked on search engine optimization and promotion of Zoho Challenge - a test creation application for teachers and businesses to evaluate candidates.

Killer Tech Tips

Jan 2008 - Present Author

I've been writing since 2008 on Killer Tech Tips, a tech blog driving over 200,000 pageviews a month with over 6,000 loyal RSS readers. Killer Tech Tips has been featured on Lifehacker and Digg.

MakeUseOf.com

Dec 2007 - Jun 2008 Contributor

I've written over 25 articles for MakeUseOf.com, one-third of which have been featured on Digg, bringing in over hundreds of thousands of visitors to the website which now boasts of 100,000+ readers. See: http://bit.ly/eYT6Y9