Suriyaa Sundararuban

Techie. Entrepreneur. Investor.

Hi! I am a technology professional, entrepreneur, and investor with extensive experience. I have over 10 years of experience in software development, and I am a serial entrepreneur with a proven track record of building and running successful startups. Additionally, I have over 5 years of startup investing experience, giving me a unique perspective on the world of scaling businesses by leveraging technology.

🚀 Find Your Co-Founder and Build Something Great

Every great company started with a dream and the right partnership. Don't let your vision remain just an idea. Find someone who's already proven they can turn dreams into reality. The future belongs to those who dare to build it together.

Turn Your Vision Into Reality

💰 Get Startup Investment for Your Next Bold Move

Behind every breakthrough that changed the world, there was someone who believed in the impossible. Your idea could be the next one that transforms millions of lives. Don't let lack of funding be the reason your vision stays unrealized.

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🏢 Looking to Acquire Firmly Established Companies

You've built something remarkable, and now it's time for the next chapter? Whether you're seeking new adventures, life changes, or ready to see your legacy continue to grow. Let's ensure your company's story doesn't end here.

Secure Your Legacy

💼 Hire Suriyaa Sundararuban

Your company is at a crossroads? You can continue with the same approach, or you can accelerate your growth with someone who's already proven they can turn ambitious visions into market-leading realities. The choice is yours.

Accelerate Your Success

🎯 Land Your Next Job

Ready to take your career to the next level? Join a team that values innovation, growth, and making a real impact. Discover opportunities that align with your ambitions and help you build the future you envision.

Explore Career Opportunities

🔗 Build Strategic Connections

Success isn't just about what you know, it's about who you know. Every breakthrough moment in your career could be one connection away. Don't let the opportunity to access a global network of industry leaders pass you by.

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💻 Open Source Expertise

Join the movement that's democratizing technology and changing the world. Every line of open source code you contribute becomes part of something bigger. A global community building the future together.

Join the Movement

📚 Get Better Insights

Knowledge is power, but applied knowledge is transformation. Learn from real experiences, failures that became lessons, and insights that could save you years of trial and error. Your next breakthrough might be one blog article away.

Transform Your Thinking

🤝 Get Personalized Help

Stuck on a challenge that's holding you back? Don't let one obstacle prevent you from reaching your potential. Sometimes the breakthrough you need is just one conversation away.

Break Through Your Barriers

Work Experience

🚀 Hire Suriyaa Sundararuban

Ready to accelerate your company's growth with proven leadership and technical expertise?

💼 Full-Time Roles

Ready to hire? Let's discuss your opportunity!

Transform Your Team

🎯 Advisory & Consulting

Strategic guidance, technical architecture, or growth strategy

Get Strategic Advantage

🚀 Project-Based Work

Specific technical challenges, scaling projects, or innovation initiatives

Solve Your Challenge

🎯 Strategic Leadership

Need a CTO or technical advisor to scale your product and team?

Get A New Leader

🚀 Technical Scaling

Struggling with technical debt or need to scale your infrastructure?

Scale to Success

💡 Innovation Strategy

Want to explore new technologies or pivot your business model?

Innovate Your Future

Why hire Suriyaa? Proven track record across multiple industries, deep technical expertise, and a passion for building successful, scalable solutions.

Key Achievements & Impact

Firefox Developer

142M+ active users

impacted through Suriyaa's Firefox development contributions (frankly, I'm still amazed they let me touch the code)

MediaWiki Developer

46,380+

websites using MediaWiki software (including Wikipedia with over 64 million articles that I definitely didn't edit to say how awesome we both are)

Bitcoin Contributor

$2.3T market cap

empowering 106M+ Bitcoin users for global financial inclusion & human rights (admittedly, I'm still kicking myself for not buying more when it was at $4000)

Ethereum Developer

$357B market cap

482K+ active Ethereum users building innovative blockchain networks (and smart contracts that sometimes do what they're supposed to do)

Python Contributor

51% of developers

worldwide use Python as of 2024 (and I'm still trying to convince hackers that my indentation style is "artistic")

Build the Future

Suriyaa's Purpose

To make a lasting, meaningful, positive impact on people's lives worldwide.

Deliver mission-critical outcomes for humanity
(honestly, this sounds like we are trying to save the world,
but someone's got to do it):

Be Part of Something Bigger Than Yourself

Choose the mission that resonates with you (or just pick the one that sounds least impossible 😉):

Cure chronic diseases and build a new healthcare system

Chronic diseases affect about 75% of the global population, while autoimmune diseases affect about 10% globally.

Revolutionizing healthcare delivery through AI technology, making quality care and affordable medications globally accessible to everyone.

Save Lives, Change Everything →

Empower 1 billion people for global financial inclusion

Globally, 1.4 billion people are unbanked, meaning they lack access to a bank account or formal financial services.

Creating new financial systems that serve the unbanked and underbanked and everyone else, ensuring economic freedom and human dignity.

Empower a Billion Dreams →

Build network states with transparent lean governments

Government inefficiency wastes up to $3.25 trillion annually globally (25% of government spending worldwide).

Establishing a new form of efficient governance that transcends traditional borders through technology and online communities.

coming soon...

Make Open Source the New Primary Industry Standard

Organizations spend on average 3.5 times more on proprietary software than Open Source software. Open source can provide up to 60% cost savings for enterprises.

Transforming every industry to prioritize Open Source development, knowledge sharing, and collaboration as the standard approach.

Build the Future Together →

Help Europe become a leading space superpower

Without action, Europe risks becoming a permanent spectator in the new space race. It has already fallen behind the United States, China, Russia and 4 other countries.

Advancing European aerospace and rocketry capabilities and establishing new leadership in the sustainable space economy and maybe planet colonization.

Reach for the Stars →

Support 100 people to build 100 unicorn companies

Across the OECD, there are more than 34 million "missing" entrepreneurs that are needed for innovation and economic growth, highlighting persistent gaps in inclusive support.

Empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs by mentoring and investing to create massive value and impact across all industries.

Build the next unicorn →

My Vision

I believe technology can solve humanity's greatest challenges.

The great future belongs to those who responsibly build it.

I'm fully aware this sounds like something from a sci-fi movie, but I'm committed to making it reality.

Explore Collaboration Opportunities

How I Learn

🔍

Being
Curious

Always asking why and exploring new possibilities beyond the obvious.

🌍

Being
Open-Minded

Embracing diverse perspectives and challenging my own assumptions.

💡

Learning by
Doing

Building real projects and solving actual problems to gain practical experience.

🤝

Growing
Together

Collaborating with others to accelerate learning and achieve more.

My Learning Philosophy

I believe in learning through action and collaboration.

The best way to learn is to build something that matters.

Let's be real, we all learned most of our lessons the hard way through spectacular failures that is called "learning experiences".

My Startup Projects

Elara Aerospace

First Methalox Student Rocket Built That Will Break Three World Records
(We're still amazed that we survived the bureaucratic European environment)

Bitreserva

Bitcoin Reserve platform and liquidity provider for governments and institutional investors
(because apparently governments, Big Corps and wealthy people trust me with their money)

PLURACURE

Developing ground-breaking treatments for incurable chronic (autoimmune) diseases
(and no, I'm not a doctor yet, but I play one in the startup world)

Whether you’re just beginning or ready to go all in, each path is crafted to help you reach your full potential on your terms.
No more waiting, no more uncertainty. This is your moment to take control and make the impact you've always wanted.

Discuss Partnership Opportunities

Press and Social Media Coverage

Elara Aerospace announces strategic partnership with the TU Munich

2024 |

English

A new week begins with excitement as members of the newly founded TUM Student Club "Elara Aerospace" — Tom Luca Reinhardt, Vincent Preuss, Suriyaa Sundararuban, and Tobias Jäger — alongside Stefan Kögler from the TUM Center for Study and Teaching, gathered to discuss their groundbreaking project. Are you looking for a challenge like that?

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Elara Aerospace e OLM per il lancio di satelliti dalla Sardegna

May 13, 2025 |

Italian

Elara Aerospace e OLM hanno ottenuto dall'Aeronautica Militare e dal Ministero della Difesa l'autorizzazione per testare nel 2025 al PISQ in Sardegna il motore "Starlight" a metano e ossigeno liquido, in vista di un lancio suborbitale nel 2026. Il progetto mira a fare della Sardegna una base europea per lanci suborbitali e orbitali e servizi per la New Space Economy entro il 2030.

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OLM Plans to Offer Commercial Launch Services from Sardinia

June 9, 2025 |

English

OLM has secured approval to test rocket engines at Sardinia's Salto di Quirra site, aiming for commercial suborbital launches by 2026. In partnership with Germany's Elara Aerospace, OLM will support tests of the student-built, reusable Starlight rocket, which can carry 50 kg to 130 km. Propulsion tests run through 2025, with full launch approval pending.

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My Reading List & Publications

My Reading List

Principles by Ray Dalio Principles for navigating life and work
Zero to One by Peter Thiel Notes on startups, or how to build the future
The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen When new technologies cause great firms to fail
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman Understanding the two systems that drive our thoughts

Atomic Habits by James Clear Tiny changes, remarkable results
Deep Work by Cal Newport Rules for focused success in a distracted world
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari A brief history of humankind
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries How today's entrepreneurs use continuous innovation

Recommend a Book

What Great People Say

Meet the Builders and Industry Leaders: Stories of Action, Innovation, and Impact

Suriyaa's exceptional capability in mastering new technologies and delivering high-quality products is impressive. His broad technical knowledge and leadership skills make him an outstanding professional and a pleasure to work with.

Suriyaa is a visionary who needs minimal input to see the big picture. His deep knowledge of the startup scene and excellent people skills create a pleasant working environment. His insights, work ethic, and ability to elevate projects to the next level make him invaluable to any tech startup.

I had the pleasure of working with Suriyaa at Elara Aerospace on software and web projects. He brings creative ideas, welcomes feedback, and always finds smart, effective solutions. Suriyaa thinks beyond just software, keeping the bigger mission in mind. A true team player and a pleasure to work with!

Suriyaa's ability to learn SAP S/4HANA in days and handle Purchase Requisitions for 24 European countries was remarkable. His efficiency in processing millions in PR orders helped accelerate our charging station deployments across Europe, making us the market leader.

Suriyaa's reliability and speed in completing tasks is astonishing. His ability to excel across three student initiatives while maintaining a corporate job demonstrates exceptional time management and dedication to every project he undertakes.

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These are just a few stories from those who took the leap with me. Imagine what's possible when we work together. You're not just joining forces with Suriyaa, you're joining a legacy with a mission to transform the lives of billions of people. Don't wait to create our story.

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Let's have an interesting conversation

Interested in collaborating or investing? Let's connect!

Whether you're a founder seeking collaboration, an investor exploring new opportunities, or just looking to connect. I'd love to hear from you.
(Fortunately, I do actually respond to emails, though sometimes it takes me a few days. If I'm not reacting within 14 days, please remind me again.)

Choose the most relevant contact path below:

For general communication: hello@suriyaa.de

Want Suriyaa to invest in your startup / business? Contact: invest@flyingaries.com

For recruiters with job offers: jobs@suriyaa.de

For media requests: press@suriyaa.de

(I prefer English or German for written communication. Thank you! Clearly, I'm still working on to learn more languages!)

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