Meet 5 software program engineers who traded profitable tech careers to pursue their culinary passions and lead fulfilling lives. Their thriving meals startups are a testomony to their drive and dedication.
Do you dream of doing significant work of your personal that actually excites you? Are you tempted to depart your desk job and observe your ardour for making scrumptious meals?
Meet these techies who did simply that. They give up their well-paying jobs to enterprise into the meals trade, reworking their ardour into profitable companies. Their tales will go away you motivated.
1. Azmat Ali Mir
Hailing from the scenic Srinagar in Kashmir, Azmat Ali Mir moved to Bengaluru in 2018. Though she turned a pc science engineer, she all the time dreamt of proudly owning a caravan meals truck and serving grilled scorching canine across the metropolis.
To fulfil her childhood fantasy within the meals trade, she began Sarposh to deliver the true style of Kashmir’s delicacies to South India. Her eatery affords a variety of genuine Kashmiri delights, from the multi-course meal Wazwan, which incorporates tabak maaz (Kashmiri-style lamb ribs), methi maaz (made with lamb gut and fenugreek leaves), rogan josh (lamb curry), and extra.
2. Murali Gundanna
On one high-quality day in 2015, software program engineer Murali Gundanna instructed his employer that he wouldn’t be exhibiting as much as work the following day. His motive, he says, was that he had determined to observe his ardour for beginning a meals enterprise.
Immediately, he runs Meals Field, which sells reasonably priced home-cooked meals throughout Mysuru utilizing his grandmother’s recipes. Ranging from Rs 70 per meal, he sells quite a lot of meals objects corresponding to balekai bajji (banana fritter), kesari bhat (semolina candy), puliyogare (tamarind rice), and thatte idli (rice cake).
From receiving orders for 15 to twenty packing containers a day initially, Murali now will get orders for greater than 2,000 packing containers every week. The enterprise makes a income of about Rs 1.5 crore a yr.
3. Sibi Manivannan
After finishing his commencement in robotics and automation in 2015, adopted by a stint at his household enterprise of car dealerships and operating eating places, Sibi began Gramiyaa in 2017 along with his faculty buddies Mohamed Yaseen and Naveen Rajamaran.Â
The startup manufactures wooden cold-pressed oils utilizing conventional stone mills to supply a more healthy various to sophisticated oils. The trio produces about 50,000 litres of cold-pressed oils in three classes – groundnut, sesame, and coconut oil. Up to now, they’ve bought their oils to no less than 30,000 prospects and helped them exchange refined oils of their kitchens.
4. Sridevi Ashala
Sridevi fed her first little one selfmade meals, but it surely wasn’t really easy to handle together with her second, owing to her full-time job as a software program engineer. Like all new mom, she discovered it troublesome to make wholesome meals and give attention to her youngsters’s vitamin.
After working for 15 years within the area, she lastly give up her job and established Tummy Pleasant Meals in 2019 to make sure that infants get good meals. The enterprise sells easy-to-make natural child meals corresponding to porridge mixes and pancake mixes for infants from six months of age onwards. Additionally they have a line of mixes for adults with well being issues like diabetes.
5. Sandeep Jogiparti and Kavitha Gopu
Sandeep Jogiparti had a candy tooth and wished to determine a enterprise associated to sweets. Involved in regards to the quantity of refined sugar in conventional sweets, he considered making wholesome ladoos.
So after working for 5 years as a software program engineer within the US, he and his spouse Kavitha Gopu give up their jobs to launch LadduBox, which affords more healthy alternate options to conventional ladoos. The couple used native elements corresponding to millet, flax seed, dry fruits, peanuts, jaggery, and ghee, and made 11 types of ladoos. Every has a shelf-life of 21 days. Inside one yr, the duo made a turnover of Rs 55 lakh.
Edited by Khushi Arora.
