About

Welcome to blog.suriyaa.tk, my blog on the interwebs. My name is Suriyaa Sundararuban.

Who is Suriyaa Sundararuban?

Suriyaa Sundararuban (in the middle of the picture) with the Elara Aerospace team (Copyright: Elara Aerospace)

Suriyaa Sundararuban is a German technology professional, entrepreneur, investor, and software developer based in Munich. He has over a decade of experience in software development and is recognized as a serial entrepreneur with a proven track record of building and running successful startups and organizations. Suriyaa is also experienced in private equity investing and is known for his active involvement in the startup ecosystem, both as a founder and as an investor.

He studied Management & Technology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and has worked with industry-leading organizations such as Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM), Infineon Technologies (Top 20 German public-listed company), IONITY (received €700M in funding from Blackrock), and osapiens (Goldman Sachs invested €120M). Currently, he is the co-founder and Head of Software (also referenced as Head of IT) at Elara Aerospace, a rocketry company focused on DeepTech technology.

Suriyaa is passionate about open-source technology and has contributed to well-known Open Source projects such as Python, Firefox, Bitcoin and MediaWiki as an open-source developer since 2013. He has also volunteered with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and is involved in various technology and entrepreneurship communities such as 2hearts and START Munich.

Suriyaa’s contributions to open source software played a pivotal role in NASA’s historic Ingenuity Mars Helicopter mission, which marked the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. As one of only 12,000 developers — out of over 90 million GitHub users — recognized for their contributions, Suriyaa’s work directly impacted the specific versions of projects and libraries that NASA relied on to fly Ingenuity on Mars in 2020.

Why I released my notes prior 2022

I painstakingly learned on my own and want to share it for future generations (of developers and entrepreneurs) to have access to a great documentation hub.