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Media.net is one of the world's leading companies in the Contextual Advertising space that provides a wide range of advertising and traffic monetization solutions. Since its founding, Media.net has constantly broken new ground in building innovative contextual advertising solutions. Our diverse client base includes web publishers with premium content, registrars, hosting companies and holders of high value domain portfolios.
We serve our contextual real-time ads customized for each visitor and each page view on a 24/7 uninterrupted distributed server infrastructure that runs 1000+ CPUs, terabytes of RAM, large database-centric applications and 100's of terabytes of data. And to be business specific, our advertising platform caters multiple geographies, languages and across time zones.
Our existing 450+ master minds building these systems come from the finest engineering schools. What do they enjoy the most at Media.net is the autonomy to operate in solving global scale problems and they feel comfortable being surrounded by sharp minds & geeks similar to them.
Just to give a snippet on the scale we operate at >Zillions of data captured > Billions of ads a month > 2 million visits an hour >8 million sites at any time. To know more about us please visit www.media.net
Flipkart is India's favourite online shopping destination, everything we do revolves around our obsession with providing our customers a memorable online shopping experience.
Flipkart is deeply committed and has constantly engaged with the open source community, in the form of tech events and making many of the indigenous technologies that power flipkart available as open source at our github page https://github.com/Flipkart
We are also constantly looking out for dynamic individuals across the spectrum - professionals who are hungry to make a difference. flipkart offers rich exposure in managing the complexities and challenges of a high-growth business environment. It's a unique opportunity to be part of a team that is changing the way people shop in India, thereby defining the future of e-commerce in the country.
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“Parichay” in Sanskrit means providing a formal introduction of a trusted person. MyParichay is a dedicated group of successful entrepreneurs, HR professionals, and computer scientists that want to capture the spirit behind a Parichay (an introduction) from a known person to transform how people achieve their career potential and companies find the best quality talent.
Our next generation social recruitment solution is already helping a number of leading companies connect to talent not found through traditional recruitment channels.
Some of the interesting areas our engineering team works on are:
- Data mining and Retrieval, Search, Recommendations
- Platform interoperability with existing social, web and enterprise channels
- Extended communication framework spanning across email, social and mobile channels
- Scaling the platform to support growth of thousands of daily new candidates and recruiters while reducing latencies.
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to reliable and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies.As the connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and prepare customers for the future of IT.
Red Hat's software development model relies on its active sponsorship of several leading open source projects. These projects allow Red Hat to develop solutions collaboratively with its partners and customers. Many years of experience have shown that the model delivers superior technology faster, and that the resulting products are better suited to customer requirements.
Evening dinner Sponsor
The creative spirits. The underdogs. The resolute. The determined. The indefatigable. The defiant. The outsiders. The independent thinkers. The fighters. The true believers.
These are the people who have imagined, started, organized and built Sequoia-backed companies in India a very diverse set of entrepreneurs from the 25 year old fresh-out- of-college graduate to the 55 year old experienced professional who has retired as the chairman of a public limited company and then decided to start a company. This diverse set of plucky individuals bring many qualities to the table passion, ambition, knowledge of their domain, guts and above all - a desire to make a dent in the universe.. We¹re ecstatic when they choose Sequoia Capital as their business partner.
At Sequoia capital, we are imbued with people who, over many years, have helped build large market-leading companies and enjoyed the experience so much they decided to join our team. As a result, our partners are able to offer invaluable company-building insights to our portfolio companies; insights that are borne out of actual experience of being around and working with real winners and spectacular long-lasting companies. Our team members have started their own companies, helped large Indian companies access the public markets, mounted major marketing campaigns, helped turn around the fortunes of companies and run the finance function in firms that operate with high margins. We have a full team of portfolio service professionals experts drawn from the domains of finance, legal, marketing, HR and IT who have a combined experience of more than 60 years working for and with large Indian and multinational companies. This is the experience we bring to companies when we get into business with them.
Our job is to support founders and management teams and help them build large, market-leading, enduring companies.
Our investments in india include Café Coffee day, Druva, Just Dial, Mu Sigma, Prizm Payments, Quickheal, Micromax, Vasan Health Care, True Caller and Zomato. Globally, Sequoia Capital has an unparalleled track record of partnering with entrepreneurs to create global market leaders; examples include Apple, Google, Cisco, Linkedin, Whatsapp and Youtube.
To learn more about Sequoia Capital India visit: www.sequoiacap.com/india
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Community Sponsors
Low latency cloud hosting in India.
E2E Networks Private Limited is one of India's first homegrown cloud computing hosting ventures. An exciting blend of cutting-edge technology, world class talent, highly skilled managed services and a commitment to bringing low latency hosting at a reasonable price.
E2E is one of India's fastest growing hosting companies, with a number of industry-leading customers in its portfolio. E2E works for both small custom testbeds for web applications still in development or multi-location, multi-terabyte, multi-gigabit deployments for some of the busiest Indian web verticals.
E2E hosts HasGeek's websites, including Rootconf 2014 website.
BrowserStack (http://www.browserstack.com) makes browser testing awesome. We have an extensive, cloud-based infrastructure, with instant access to 300+ real desktop and mobile browsers, with 8 operating systems and 50 mobile devices. Our repertoire includes interactive testing, automated testing with Selenium and JavaScript, and compatibility checks across browsers and OSes.
Some of the biggest names in the IT and open source community are our customers; like Mozilla, Wikipedia, Red Hat, github, jQuery, Ubuntu, ICANN, and Microsoft. Topnotch infrastructure companies, like Citrix and NetApp, use BrowserStack for browser testing in the cloud.
The cloud infrastructure consists of 1000+ Linux, Windows and Mac servers spread over 12 locations globally. We are actively working on Ansible and cloud technologies, including EC2 and self-hosted virtual machines. In addition, we use Ruby and Node.js extensively, while our platform team hacks around with OS internals and mobile devices on a daily basis.
Our interest in Rootconf lies in connecting with like-minded individuals with a passion for working with amazing technology, and tackling problems with no existing solutions.