Rahul Chari Age, Wife, Family, Biography & More

Some Lesser Known Facts About Rahul Chari

• In an interview, Rahul Chari mentioned that his interest towards technology developed from his love for gaming on the Atari set station. He would often go to a computer education centre owned by one of his father’s friends to play PC games.

• From the age of 4 to 9 years, Rahul Chari lived in Muscat, Oman with his father.

• In class 11, he initially took biology as his main subject because Computer Science required a higher percentage but later switched to Electrical and Computer Science.

• Rahul Chari was offered a seat in the civil engineering course at IIT-Bombay, but he refused the offer since he wanted to pursue computer engineering.

• He got his first personal computer in 1995 after which he started learning coding.

• In 1995, he pursued a computer engineering course at the Sardar Patel College, Mumbai University, which was also the first batch of computer engineering at the college.

• In May 2000, Rahul Chari started working as a software intern at Sun Microsystems. While working at Sun Labs, he had the opportunity to interact with James Gosling, the father of Java.

• After his post-graduation, Rahul Chari was offered jobs at various big tech companies such as IBM, Intel, etc. but he decided to join a startup. In an interview, he recalled the experience of starting his career at a startup rather than a well-established company, and said,
  

  This was just after the dot com bust had happened, and startups were considered extremely risky. Yet, I decided to join Andiamo.”

• From June 2001 to February 2004, he worked as a software engineer at Andiamo Systems Inc.

• In January 2003, Rahul Chari’s research paper titled ‘Minimizing Latency and Jitter for Large-Scale Multimedia Repositories Through Prefix Caching’ was published in the International Journal of Image and Graphics. ^[2]World Scientific

• In February 2004, he joined Cisco Systems as a senior software engineer. Four years later, he was promoted to a managerial position.

• In 2008, he moved back to India from the United States to be with his parents and start something of his own.

• In December 2009, Rahul Chari co-founded MIME360 (Manoramic International Media Exchange), a media distribution platform, along with Sameer Nigam who is an alumnus of the Wharton School.

• He then served as the Chief Technology Officer of MIME360 till October 2011.

• Rahul met Sameer Nigam, co-founder of PhonePe, while pursuing his graduation.
  

  Rahul Chari (right) with Sameer Nigam

• In October 2011, Flipkart acqui-hired MIME360, and Rahul Chari was appointed the Vice President of their supply chain team.

• In 2012, he headed the launch of FLYTE, a DRM-free Digital music store, which was a subsidiary platform of Flipkart.
  

  Rahul Chari (extreme right) as an employee at Flipkart

• In 2012, he launched Flipkart E-books on multiple platforms such as Android, iOS, and Windows 8.

• In December 2015, Rahul Chari co-founded PhonePe, a fintech company, and was appointed as the company’s Chief Technology Officer.
  

  Rahul Chari (extreme right) at an event organised by the PhonePe team

• Rahul Chari, along with his wife, often gifts handcrafted jewellery boxes, floor lamps, and console tables to their friends and family, which are self-made by Rahul.