People

N Samba Murthy, B.Sc (Hons)., M.Sc., B.Lib.Sc., A.Doc.ISI (DRTC)
Chairman

Samba Murthy has over forty years experience in the information field as Librarian, Statistician, Information Marketing Consultant, Teacher, Medical Records Officer, Documentalist, Library Developer, Financial Consultant.

He's been a successful entrepreneur from the past 25 years, having set up Information Marketing, Communication, Formatting Units for micro and macro forms of Books, Documents, Periodicals, Data Sources. He has explicitly acquired pragmatic experience with deep involvement in his earlier training and avocations serving at Institute for Social and Economic Change, Document Research and Training Center - Indian Statistical Institute, Mysore Medical College, All India Institute for Speech and Hearing, University of Mysore, Tata Finlay, University of Agricultural Sciences and thus getting exposed to the corporate environment at local, national and international horizons.

Lalita S. Murthy, B.A., Dip. in Book Publishing
Director

Smt. Lalita S. Murthy, a graduate from the University of Mysore and a Post Graduate Diploma Holder in Book Publishing from the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Open University has over two decades of entrepreneurial experience, having setup and run an exclusive Books and Periodicals showroom – Aparna Books & Periodicals from 1986, a DIC registered Small Scale Industry – Book Krafts.

Shashishekhar S, B.E. (University of Mysore)
Managing Director

Shashishekhar has over 10 years of experience in consulting for deployments and development of open source based software and solutions. He also has extensive experience in packaging, marketing and building businesses. Shashishekhar looks after strategy, business growth and administration of the company.

Prashanth M P, B.Sc. (University of Mysore)
Director

Prashanth has over 10 years of experience in design, animation and business development fields. Prashanth looks after the marketing and business development in the company, besides mentoring the designers.

Ajay C R , M.C.A. (IGNOU)
Project Manager

Ajay has over 12 years of experience in software development, deployments and management. Ajay looks after tracking, mentoring and managing projects in the company.

Kaladisvarane K, M. Sc
Team Leader (Projects)

Kaladis has over 6 years of experience in development, management and delivery of enterprise projects for various Government and Corporate customers. He brings with him an unique blend of expertise and skills in Linux and other open source technologies combined with his firm grounding in Bio-informatics.

Pavan Kumar P G, M.C.A
Team Leader (Web Apps)

With over 4 years of expertise in web engineering, Pavan leads and mentors a team of web application developers and is responsible for implementing several high traffic websites for quite a few marquee clients.

Varun V. Naik, DPMT
Team Leader (Systems)

Varun has a good penchant for solving problems, while continuously experimenting and exploring newer technologies. With a passion and verve towards the concept of open source, he revels in participating in community.

While not working on the cutting edge of technologies, Varun practices hindusthani classical music with his flute which he's been doing for the past 15 years.

Raghav Prasad K, M.B.A
Senior Executive (HR/BD)

With a double masters in business administration, Raghav brings an unique mix of managerial skills and planning abilities to the Company. Raghav works with the customers to understand their requirements and work out innovative solutions with lower turn around times.

Raghav - a junior level national tennis player also coaches tennis in his spare time.

Ravi Shekar S, L.L.B (Hons)
Research Associate (Legal and IPR)

With software development becoming a huge business the world over, law suites and legal recourses by companies are common place nowadays. Ravi - with his technical and legal background helps the development teams in vetting the source code for avoiding possible licensing violations, while also helping us in navigating the complex waters of open source licensing. His expertise includes Open Source Licensing, IPR Research.

Ravi is also a quizzer par excellence and has won several awards over the years. He also does interesting quizzes as a quiz master.

Jagadeesh M, M.Sc IT
Senior Designer

With over 6 years of experience in creating digital art and developing content for augmented learning tools, Jagadish's expertise and skillsets span from bitmap to vector images creation, animations. He is also skilled in XHTML, CSS, jQuery, CMS themes.

Kiran R, M.A
Senior Designer

Kiran has over 6 years of expertise in creating attractive and contemporary digital artwork. He also has sufficient expertise in creating interesting and spell binding animations.

Pavan Kumar K S, M.A
Designer

Pavan has a wide ranging of design and creative skills ranging from simple digital vector art to complex animations. He has been a very important contributor for several of our web and design projects.

Kishore K N, BTEC-HND
Software Engineer

Kishore has over 3 years of experience in application development. He has successfully and single handedly handled quite a few development projects for some of our most demanding customers.

Madhu H L, M.C.A
Software Engineer

Madhu has over a year of experience in web application software development. She has proven herself in developing some of the critical modules in a couple of important projects.

Lokesh S C, B.Sc
System Administrator

The quintessential go-to guy in the office, Lokesh ensures that the office infrastructure is well oiled and continuously maintained. Lokesh is also skilled in Google Apps deployments, Debian GNU/Linux deployments amongst others.

Sachin M, M.C.A
Testing Engineer

Sachin has more than a year's experience in Web application testing, load testing, deployment and go-live testing. With the continuous progression of complexities in web applications, Sachin works hard to keep himself updated with the latest innovations and tune his testing parameters accordingly.

Sumesh M S, DCS
Designer

Sumesh has over 2 years experience in developing Content Management Systems based websites. He is skilled in CMS customization, troubleshooting and adapting themes.