Sachin Rekhi
Founder & CEO, Connected
Connected (http://connectedhq.com) is a personal relationship manager that brings your contacts and conversations together in one place.
It integrates with Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Calendar, and Google Voice to make it easier than ever before to stay on top of your most important relationships.
Building a variety of products to make you more productive every day...
Feedera is a personalized Twitter digest delivered to your inbox every morning. Content is ranked by the FeedScore algorithm, which finds the best content for you based on friend relevance and popularity metrics.
connectme.cc enables you to send your business card with just one text. It's the easiest way to share your contact info on the go.
MonkeySort is the simplest way to manage your tasks. MonkeySort enables you to organize your tasks into categorized lists, prioritize your wo
Thinking about the next big opportunity...
Led emerging monetization efforts, including international monetization, online audio advertising, and imeem VIP, a premium subscription service.
Drove the product development of the imeem Media Platform, allowing third party developers to build compelling media centric applications leveraging imeem's music streaming, playlisting, and recommendations infrastructure. Led platform design, product management, developer relations, business development, and platform evangelism, resulting in the platform reaching over 250 million daily API requests.
Product Manager for Visual Studio Team System - Team Foundation Server, an enterprise version control solution.
Led product planning for TFS Enterprise Edition through extensive customer research, segmentation, and financial analysis. Drove the Hosted TFS pilot program to investigate both the technical feasibility and business model around building a software-as-a-service model for Team Foundation Server.
In addition, led marketing for the devBiz acquisition, in charge of pricing, announcement, and rollout of the acquired TeamPlain Web Access product.
Anywhere.FM is a web music player that allows you to experience music where you want it.
As co-founder, championed the voice of the customer through customer feedback, led user acquisition, drove the investigation of the business model and associated financial projections, as well as analyzed business development opportunities.
Anywhere.FM reached over 15 million user uploaded tracks and over 100,000 registered users.
Anywhere.FM was seed funded by Y Combinator with additional angel funding and based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Anywhere.FM was acq
Envisioned, designed, and executed the database unit testing, database refactoring, and data generation feature areas for the V1 edition for Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals.
In addition to product development, led the development of process guidance for the toolset, reviewed and wrote a forward for the premier Refactoring Databases book by Scott Ambler, as well as authored a popular white paper on database unit testing methodologies.
Presented on database development best practices at conferences, including Tech Ed Boston 06, Tech
Served as a Program Manager for the Visual Studio Core Team, which is responsible for Visual Studio infrastructure common to all languages and project types.
Led several projects, including developing the functional specification of the Export Template Wizard, a new feature shipped in Visual Studio 2005, as well as the long term investigation of large enterprise support (nested projects) inside of Visual Studio.
Developed C# / ASP.NET applications for the banking technology division of Goldman Sachs.
Applications included Project Central, a central repository for tracking the status of all projects, as well as a best practices app, tracking all learnings and howtos for the division.
Developed Oracle-backed MFC C++ applications for the billing department of PaeTec Communications, a long distance telecommunications provider.
Applications included PaeTec's first online billing system, automated phone record error detection and correction, and a system to optimize billing between carriers by reducing redundant payouts.