My name is Manish Jain and I was born in Pune, India then moved to the US when I was 4 months old. I’ve lived all over the US – Buffalo Grove, IL; Washington, IN; Bloomington, IN; Scottsdale, AZ; Foster City, CA; Washington, DC and Redondo Beach, California. Currently, I reside in Mumbai.
On the work front, I have over 25+ years of experience in the technology sector and in the halcyon days of the dot com bubble, I co-founded shaadi.com (read the origin story). Since October 2005, I’ve been in Bombay to focus on technology-driven ventures which included an algorithmic trading fund (click for more info) and currently – MProfit which is a wealth tech platform designed for HNIs and Family Offices to track and consolidate all of their investments across assets and brokers. In January 2023, we announced a funding round from Zerodha’s Rainmatter and several other investors.
About the name?
celestri.org was chosen because I wanted something that was unique and evoked the thought of the sky, which is something I don’t get to see very often in smoggy Los Angeles Mumbai.
History of My Blog
March 22, 2020 – v8.0 launched
Since the world is dealing with COVID-19 I figured this would be a good time to update my blog with a new theme. Still using WordPress.com and one of their free themes.
April 4, 2017 – v7.0 launched
After using the self-hosted version of WordPress for the past 13 years I decided it was time to move to the WordPress.com managed service. I know all the cool kids are using Medium.com but I have over 500 blog posts from the past 13 years and didn’t want to run into migration issues and hence just moved to WordPress.com
April 19, 2011 – v6.0 launched
Updated the theme to Notepad.
December 28, 2008 – v5.0 launched
Using WordPress v2.7 using the Mandigo theme. Started to use a new commenting engine from IntenseDebate.
December 26, 2006 – v4.0 launched
Using WordPress v2.1.x. Click for more technical details.
May 15, 2005 – v3.0 launched
Finally decided to ditch the static web pages and go for a more dynamic platform, then i noticed a free blogging software that iPowerWeb offered called b2. Around the time I was about to implement b2, I stumbled upon WordPress and started using it instead.
June 15, 2004 – v2.0 launched
After moving the sites between several web hosters I decided to use iPowerWeb, at this point the website was still manually created using FrontPage/Dreamweaver.
1999 – v1.0 launched
I originally hosted the website at shaadi.com from 1996-1999 then switched it to homepage.com, a casualty of the tech bubble. I used Microsoft’s FrontPage to create the site.
celestri - virtual home of manish jain 