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It started with a semicolon in the wrong place. In a sentence, not a line of code. A week into my engineering job, I knew stories were my language, not Java. Not that engineering was the problem (I graduated with First Class & Honours). Life just had other plans.
What started as curiosity about micro-fiction in college became a fascination, then an identity. Writing found me before I found it. And, I'm so glad!
Writing led to marketing. Marketing led to SEO. 8 years and counting across SaaS, fintech. Nervous fresher, then a one-woman marketing army, now a team lead. The through-line: it has been a wonderful journey.
Now, SEO is not something to learn over a weekend. I get to do it day in and out! Working at the intersection of semantic SEO, knowledge graphs, and AI. There is never a day you do not learn something new.
This role sits at the intersection of work I genuinely care about: semantic SEO, knowledge graphs, entity-based optimisation, and AI. Day to day, I manage the mid-market client segment end-to-end. Strategy, execution, relationship, the works.
A short share from a working day, on embedding analysis for content strategy.
Remember Rebecca Bloomwood from Confessions of a Shopaholic? Walking into a finance journalism job knowing nothing about finance, then becoming weirdly good at it? That was me at Decentro. Walked in with zero fintech background, walked out fluent in API docs, banking rails, and how to write for developers, CFOs, and founders all at once.
Onboarded as the first marketing hire, brought onto the core team. Within 11 months, organic alone drove results that became part of the company's growth story.
Where my career took flight. SurveySparrow was my first real nest: where I learned to write, to rank, and to genuinely love what I was building. Tiny sparrow energy, big growth. Started as Product Marketer, grew to Senior, and somewhere along the way the SEO obsession quietly took over. Left knowing that organic is the most powerful channel when you treat it with patience and precision.
This was a freelance gig, and honestly? Pure fun. Full creative freedom, write whatever I wanted, publish under my own voice. The kind of writing experience every early-career writer dreams of.
The site itself has since moved on, so only the archived versions are available. Trust me, they are worth the read. I hope.
Where it all began
@thescribbledstories and @scrawledstories, among India's largest micro-fiction communities on Instagram.
Aiswarya is a pleasure to work with and an excellent SEO project manager who makes a significant difference day in and day out. She does a great job keeping the overall plan organized, in mind, and moving.
We have been collaborating on the Express Legal Funding website and blog for more than a year now. A few highlights: more relevant traffic, ranking higher for more keywords, improving E-E-A-T, a Google knowledge panel, fact check claim reviews, medically reviewed by, featured snippets, and industry-leading Schema.
Aiswarya is a highly talented digital marketer with a passion for what she is doing. She will go to any extent and get the job done and learns quickly. Whether it is content writing, running digital campaigns, writing knowledge base articles, she is the go-to person.
Most importantly she is jovial, full of energy, and a joy to work with.
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