Ashok Raju began his career at Pushlife, a Canadian music startup, which was later acquired by Google. He spent much of his two years at Google working on various projects, most significantly Google Offers and Google+. His next career move was to San Francisco where he led the Android product development at Umano (as a founding engineer), a tech startup which focused on audio streaming. Umano was later bought out by Dropbox earlier this year in a successful deal.

“I think he’s a great example of how youth can take risks to create a career path based on their interests while still adapting to whatever curve balls are thrown their way. He continues to inspire all his friends and family.”

Learn more: Umano’s Tamil Founding Engineer Ashok Raju and Team Get Acquired by Dropbox