Chandroth Vasudevan Radhakrishnan

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Full Name	Chandroth Vasudevan Radhakrishnan
Occupation	Software Developer
Date Of Birth	Jan 20, 1953(1953-01-20)
Age	71
Birthplace	Kuzhithurai
Country	India
Birth City	Tamil Nadu
Horoscope	Capricorn

Chandroth Vasudevan Radhakrishnan Biography

Chandroth Vasudevan Radhakrishnan is one of the most popular and richest Software Developer who was born on January 20, 1953 in Kuzhithurai, Tamil Nadu, India. The youngest child of four, CV Radhakrishnan was born on January 20, 1953, within the town of Kuzhithurai in the Kanyakumari district. It is now in the State of Tamil Nadu, India.

CV Radhakrishnan started to learn about computers during his time in Kerala University. With no formal education in the field, he picked this as a method to escape the disease. At the time working at the University made him familiar with Professor. K. S. S. Nambooripad of the Department of Mathematics. The professor, a fervent TeX enthusiast introduced Radhakrishnan into TeX. TeX language. Radhakrishnan began to explore options with the TeX language. Starting with research papers written by students at the university and then he began to use TeX to typesetting Entomon which is an Entomology research journal from the Department of Zoology. In 1994, he started the company River Valley Technologies as a company that was a proprietary one offering typesetting services.

Radhakrishnan supports philanthropic efforts through non-profit projects spearheaded by the Sayahna Foundation, a virtual community set up by him to promote open access publishing and collaborative digitisation of all contents that enrich humanity, culture, heritage and history.Sayahna has contributed to the digitization of prominent works of literature. The digitized version of Kerala Panineeyam, a treatise on Malayalam grammar and rhetoric was released under Creative Commons ShareAlike License in 2017.

Working completely on free software, STMDocs is one of the main suppliers of Elsevier and has also provided typesetting services to Nature, Institute of Physics & Cambridge University Press. Sprawled across a green stretch of four acres, the main campus of the company is located at Malayinkeezhu, a village located 15 km from the city of Thiruvananthapuram. Radhakrishnan has designed the campus to be an eco sanctuary that houses a range of bio-diverse species from exotic trees to birds and bees. Running on renewable energy and rain water harvesting and actively practising organic farming, the company won the Special Jury award for Biodiversity from the Kerala State Biodiversity Board in 2019.

River Valley Technologies came into existence in its premises at the Software Technology Park (STP) in Trivandrum on January 1, 1994. The company was founded as a proprietary concern that dealt with the development of software as well as IT enabled services, and licensed under the STP system, the company was soon able to provide typing services to the major publishing companies. in 2003, River Valley Technologies contributed to the timely release of BSNL’s phone directory.Later, Radhakrishnan registered a new company as a private limited entity that became known as STM Document Engineering Pvt Ltd (STMDocs).

Chandroth Vasudevan Radhakrishnan Net Worth

Chandroth Vasudevan Radhakrishnan is one of the richest Software Developer from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Chandroth Vasudevan Radhakrishnan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Chandroth Vasudevan R. Radhakrishnan (cndroott Vaasudeev RaadhaakSsnn) also known as CV Radhakrishnan, aka CVR (born on January 20, 1953) is an Indian free software developer, entrepreneur, and the founder of River Valley Technologies. He is also among the original members of the TeX Users Group in India.

Radhakrishnan began his career with his company, the Indian Telecom department where he was employed for a short period of 6 months from 1973. After that, he relocated to Delhi and was a part of his current position at the Ministry of Shipping and Transport. While in Delhi there, he noticed weak leg muscles. He was diagnosed with a neurologic disorder known as peroneal muscle dystrophy. After being told by doctors that he would not be able to live for more than 5 years old, he decided to quit his job and moved back to Kerala to live at home with his family. In Kerala He became a part of the administration department at Kerala University. He was in the same position for the next 15 years until he left in 1993 and set up River Valley Technologies.

Radhakrishnan’s involvement with the Free Software movement started with the inauguration of the Indian TeX Users Group at Trivandrum in January 1998. He was nominated as the secretary of the Indian TeX users group during the meeting. Around this time, FreeDevelopers.Net, a commercial company based in Washington was incorporated. Richard Stallman was its Chief Ethical Officer. The prime aim of FreeDevelopers.Net was to function as a democratic entity that stood for the development of freesoftware. Radhakrishnan founded the Indian chapter of Free Software Foundation on 20 July 2001.. Radhakrishan maintains a number of LaTeX packages in CTAN.

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