Saran Chari

Current

• Co-Founder & CTO at Flixster

Past

• Director of Engineering at Edusoft
• Lead Developer at Scient

Education

• Princeton University

Connections

112 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company

Saran Chari’s Summary

I'm interested in building great (winning) companies, teams, and products. I'm a technologist with both hands-on and executive experience. I'm currently focused in the internet media space.

Saran Chari’s Specialties:

Building and leading software development teams, web application architecture and implementation, product strategy and design, organization and process building. Motivated to solve not just the hard problems (or the easy ones), but the *right* ones.

Saran Chari’s Experience

• Co-Founder & CTO

  Flixster

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2005 — Present (3 years 5 months)

  We're building the biggest and best "Myspace meets IMDB meets Wikipedia" site on the web. Flixster totally rocks, and I love my job.

• Director of Engineering

  Edusoft

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  October 2001 — May 2005 (3 years 8 months)

  I led a 40 person engineering team in development of a web application which delivered over 10 million tests to students across the country in 2004. Edusoft doubled its business each year I was there, and I was responsible for making sure that the product kept up.

• Lead Developer

  Scient

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)

  September 1999 — May 2001 (1 year 9 months)

  Scient was an internet consultancy (yes, it no longer exists) that built web applications for numerous high-profile clients. I was lead developer on several project teams, building sites for clients such as Hotwire and Major League Baseball.

Saran Chari’s Education

• Princeton University

  BSE, Electrical Engineering, September 1995 — June 1999

  Summa Cum Laude

Additional Information

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• My Company

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