Pavan Keshavamurthy — Founder

Seasoned product + platform engineering, technology architecture leader & renewed entrepreneur. Major tech interests: Data infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Functional Programming. Over the last 15+ years, I have bootstrapped multiple consulting & product startups in mostly niche areas. As an entrepreneur, I also have credible history in a business setting (including revenue ownership, P&L, growth), client partnership (delivery & account management with F500 customers) and hands-on engineering leadership. I have also contributed to a number of OSS projects and run community focused initiatives. I'm passionate about SaaS & platform oriented business models, DevX and solving for large scale data/AI challenges in the enterprise. I'm also invested in a handful of early stage startups in India and US. -------- Overview of significant, hands-on tech skills: + Systems Design & Tech/data architecture: Microservices, Domain Driven Design, Distributed Systems, OOAD + Programming Polyglot: C, C++, PHP, Python, Javascript, Golang, Lua + Cloud native infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Azure, various flavours of Kubernetes + API Gateways, Service Meshes, FaaS: Kong, Apigee, AWS API GW, WSO2, Istio + Big Data/Event Streaming: Apache Kafka, NATS, Apache Airflow, Apache Beam, Apache NiFi, Apache Druid, Apache Flink, Apache Spark (and a whole host of CNCF/ApacheFn tooling) + Database Systems & internals (Cassandra, MySQL, Postgres) + Front-end (can do just enough; React, React-native, Cordova) At Platformatory, I work as a client partner and hands-on CTO, with an amazing team of partners & engineers. Our partnerships include mature PaaS companies, where we're a premier consulting & PS partner. PAST: - Built a platform & product engineering BU, ground up at a boutique consultancy (now acquired) - Led retail & hyperlocal ecosystem products and CTOaaS for portfolio at a Bangalore incubator - Founder (X2): Popular CRM and ERP, focused on India SME segment - Founder/CTO: An online radio & media platform for Indian classical music - Founder: A travel/adventure tourism & ecommerce venture - Founder: One of India's most active Amateur Astronomy & Science Popularization NPOs - OSS contributions - Lead Architect (Consultant): At a Medium Scale node.js PaaS (acquired) - Freelancing (web applications, portals, media. Mostly based on open-source CMF)

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Data Infrastructure expert with extensive experience in platform engineering and consulting.

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Experience: 20 yrs 3 mos

Skills

Data Architecture
Hybrid Cloud
Cloud Native Infrastructure
Product Development

Career Highlights

15+ years in product and platform engineering.
Expert in data infrastructure and distributed systems.
Successful founder of multiple tech startups.

Work Experience

Streamtime Data FZCO

Founder (1 yr)

Comonad

Partner (1 yr 2 mos)

Platformatory

Founder (5 yrs 2 mos)

Srijan Technologies

Director: Product & Platform Engineering (4 yrs 9 mos)

Mukti Lifestyle Pvt Ltd

CTO / CPO (2 yrs 3 mos)

Radioweb.in (Content Media)

Cofounder / CTO (11 yrs)

NetiApps Software

Cofounder (2 yrs)

Shikhara Technologies Pvt Ltd

Cofounder (7 yrs 2 mos)

Google

Student Contractor GSoC (2 mos)

Summiters Adventures

Cofounder (5 yrs)

Self Employed

Principal Engineer / Architect (4 yrs)

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech at Visvesvaraya Technological University

Pavan Keshavamurthy

Founder

Bangalore, Karnataka, India20 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

15+ years in product and platform engineering.
Expert in data infrastructure and distributed systems.
Successful founder of multiple tech startups.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Data Infrastructure expert with extensive experience in platform engineering and consulting.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data ArchitectureHybrid CloudCloud Native InfrastructureProduct Development

Other Skills

API ManagementAWSAgileAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsApache KafkaApache SparkArchLinuxCloud Computing IaaSCommon Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)ContainerizationData ScienceDesign PatternsDistributed SystemsDjango

About

Experience

Streamtime data fzco

Founder

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Hybrid

Building a private cloud streaming platform that supports any flavour of kafka.

Comonad

Partner

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Incubating niche SaaS, Data & AI platform products with Indian founders.

Platformatory

Founder

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore / Dubai / Bay Area

Consulting, Engineering and Platforming.
Key areas: Real-time data, API Platform & Service Mesh, Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Performance Engineering

Data ArchitectureHybrid CloudStream ProcessingDomain Driven DesignDistributed Systems

Srijan technologies

Director: Product & Platform Engineering

Apr 2016 – Jan 2021 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Responsible globally for business comprising Platform Engineering, Consulting, CTO/CIO Advisory around:
Hybrid Cloud, Cloud Native & Core Infrastructure Transformation (on AWS, GCP, Azure. Mention-worthy focus on Kubernetes)
Data integration, Event Driven Architectures (Strong focus on Kafka & event-streaming tech)
API Management & Developer Platform (Apigee, Kong, WSO2, amongst others)
Application Modernization (Microservice Architecture, FaaS & Serverless, SOA & Legacy Rehaul)

Apache SparkCloud Native Infrastructure

Mukti lifestyle pvt ltd

CTO / CPO

Jan 2014 – Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Chief Product Officer at Mukti Lifestyle - a nextgen incubator that mentors technology companies working on digital convergence solutions. Some of our incubatees included:
> In & Around: A community centric, omni-channel (mobile, social, web, offline) marketing platform for small businesses. In soft-launch in Harlem, NYC and Indiranagar, Bangalore.
> Blunkit (www.blunkit.com): A mood-discovery based mobile app for Events. In beta phase in Bangalore.
> Employability Bridge (www.employabilitybridge.com): An intelligent employment solution that increases effectives for Corporates and Students by 10X. In growth phase, EB recently received funding from National Skill Development Corporation's (NSDC's) innovation cell.
> Silvan Innovation Labs (www.silvanlabs.com): A Smart Connect platform that integrates smartness between a user's mobile device and multiple spaces (home, office, community). The solution is currently used by many premier real-estate builders in South India
> eBUILD solutions (http://www.totalenvironment.in/customise): A bespoke home customisation platform that enables detailed customised designing for builder projects across layout, interiors and services. The solution is part of the Total Environment group of companies
> JustEat.in - The original food delivery startup.
> AlmaMater - Ecommerce business around customized merchandise.
> StayZilla - Platform catering 55000+ alternative & homestay options across India.

Apache SparkProduct Development

Radioweb.in (content media)

Cofounder / CTO

Jan 2012 – Jan 2023 · 11 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

> Initiative of Ex-WorldSpace and Music lovers, targeted at catering the best curated Indian Classical and Devotional Music. Presently running three channels (Karnatic, Hindusthani and Bhakti) with omni channel media content delivery capabilities.
> Hands-on CTO: Built bespoke Streaming Media Delivery Platform: Management, Manipulation (via SoX / FFMpeg), Transcoding of Content
> Omni channel content delivery, usage and analytics at large
> Management of content partners & labels - 1st, 2nd and 3rd party and revenue sharing ecosystem

Netiapps software

Cofounder

Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

> Technical leadership role in an organization providing solutions to SMEs on F/OSS platforms
> Brought in a strong tech focus: Vtiger / Sugar CRM, Drupal, OpenERP

Shikhara technologies pvt ltd

Cofounder

Jan 2009 – Mar 2016 · 7 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Tech consulting & services company I co-founded whilst still in college: Bootstrapped, built & scaled people + revenues: Several SMB customers in India & US. Several multi-year customers on Drupal, CiviCRM, Plone.

Google

Student Contractor GSoC

May 2007 – Jul 2007 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Summiters adventures

Cofounder

Jan 2006 – Jan 2011 · 5 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

My first company whilst still in college. A venture of passion, but happily exited since.
> Adventure Gear (Tents, Sleeping Bags HI-TEC Shoes, Bags, Mountaineering Equipment and More);
> Trekking in the Himalayas (including bespoke and expedition routes)
> Trekking in the Western Ghats (Karnataka / Kerala);
> Corporate Outings & Offbeat Holidays.
> Aggregating local guides and facilities.

Self employed

Principal Engineer / Architect

Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 · 4 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

> Since 2011, mostly centred around JS user land applications and some runtime internals (largely C++)
> Before 2011: Several cross-geography, cross-functional engagements typically in a full stack technical architect role (particularly, Drupal, CiviCRM, Symfony, Python, Django, Web2py and GAE) - helped scale several high profile publishing websites
> Further back: Some systems programming: dogfooding device drivers (C, C++), WinSock applications (on VB6) and various hobby projects.
> Highlights: Clientele consisting of multiple media houses, a leading Node.js PaaS provider, Early and Growth stage Startups & a large NGO with global presence.