Madan Ganesh Velayudham

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India24 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Founder of multiple successful tech startups
  • Expert in cloud infrastructure and management
  • Author of children's books promoting emotional intelligence
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on cloud infrastructure and emotional well-being solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Game DesignMental Health CounselingSoftware DevelopmentGoogle Cloud Platform (gcp)Cloud Infrastructure

Other Skills

Parenting WorkshopsCommunity BuildingGenAIWellness CoachingFirebaseArtificial Intelligence (AI)Amazon Web Services (AWS)Microsoft AzureBusiness DevelopmentStart-ups ManagementStart-up VenturesLean StartupCorporate EventsLife CoachingSpiritual Coaching

About

I’m Madan, a technologist, serial entrepreneur, author, and mentor building platforms around Actual Intelligence. Actual Intelligence is the ability to think clearly, regulate emotions, and take the right action in real-life situations. For over 20 years, I have built products, led teams, and scaled platforms across cloud, innovation, and leadership with a strong focus on clarity and impact. I founded ActOnMagic Technologies, built award-winning cloud products, and exited the company to NTT Netmagic. At NTT, I launched the MultiCloud business in India and later led the global Cloud Management Platform initiative. Along the way, I have mentored leaders, guided startups through Google Launchpad, and built strong practitioner communities across India. I am the author of I’m Not Busy and the Hippo Dippo Jumbo Toolbox series for children (I’m Brave, Bro!, I’m Strong, Bro!, I’m Curious, Bro!, I’m Rich, Bro!). Today, I am building Kalmpass and HabitZup, platforms designed to help students, professionals, and families build Actual Intelligence through reflection, habits, and play. If clarity, calm, and confident decision-making matter to you, feel free to explore my work (Kalmpass.com | Go.HabitZup.com ) or start a conversation.

Experience

Habitzup innovations

Co-Founder & CEO

Dec 2024Present · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • I am personally motivated by one simple belief:
  • one compassionate, self-reflective decision can save a life or save a relationship.
  • I strongly believe that every individual has the ability to be a counsellor—to pause, reflect, listen, and respond with awareness. With the right tools and mindset, people have the power to support one another during critical moments and prevent avoidable emotional damage.
  • As a company, HabitZup Innovations builds online and offline tools to empower students, parents, and professionals. We operate at the intersection of wellness, edtech, and Indian wisdom, translating deep ideas into practical, everyday actions.
  • I actively develop Kalmpass.com, an online platform that helps students, parents, and professionals make confident decisions without stress. Kalmpass works like a personalized Google MAP for emotional well-being—starting with short assessments and guiding users toward clarity, positive goal setting, and intentional action.
  • We also built the HabitZup Card Game, often described as UNO for Positive Habits. Over 300+ parents and individuals have trusted the game to experience meaningful shifts and strengthen values within their families through play and reflection.
  • In addition, I have authored five books, including I’m Not Busy and the Hippo Dippo Jumbo Toolbox series for children—designed to help young minds build inner strength, awareness, and healthy thinking habits from an early age.
  • My work is centered on one outcome:
  • helping people think better, choose better, and live better—especially when it matters most.
Game DesignParenting WorkshopsMental Health CounselingCommunity BuildingGenAIWellness Coaching+4

Ntt data

Sr. Director Consultant

Dec 2024Mar 2025 · 3 mos · Bengaluru · Hybrid

  • I advise CMP team and NTT Com Japan for successful launch of new version of Cloud Management Platform.

India cloudstack meetup group

3 roles

Senior Director of Development

Jan 2022Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • 1. Responsible for new Cloud Management Platform for NTTJ/NTT Com and rest of the regions
  • 2. Architect the new CMP and provide a global product platform.
  • 3. Work with Partners to define, position the product offering.
  • 4. Built & Delivered new CMP platform involve complex cloud platforms. Seamlessly migrated workloads from multiple clouds.
  • 5. Build strong, multi-talented goal focused awesome engineering team in Pune
  • 6. Responsible for CMP operations to ensure our customers are delighted.
  • 7. Guide product teams and dev team in Japan to steer CMP product in right direction.
Cloud InfrastructureAmazon Web Services (AWS)Microsoft Azure

Vice President - Product Innovation and Engineering (Global)

Promoted

Mar 2019Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • 1) Defined roadmap, continuously groomed requirements, built features into Solution Insight CMP Product for NTT
  • 2) Groomed cross-functional team and Delivered
  • 2.1) New Solution Insight connectors for HyperScalers
  • 2.2) Designed and Developed Policy Based Governance (PoBG) - an Enterprise value add on top of NTT Solution Insight
  • 3) Support customers across various regions
  • 4) Worked with Sr. Management closely to position the product offering
  • 5) Occationally do due-diligence of upcoming startups/new initiatives
Cloud InfrastructureAmazon Web Services (AWS)Microsoft Azure

Organizer

Mar 2016Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

  • Organise Cloudstack Meetups and Speak about latest trends in Apache cloudstack and cloud domain.

Netmagic solutions (an ntt communications company)

Vice President

Jan 2018Mar 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

  • 1) Built and delivered Cloud Management Platform with ActOnMagic IP's + NTT's Solution Insight for India NTT Netmagic MultiCloud Insight Portal
  • 2) Groomed diverse NTT Netmagic Engg team on new technologies and development mythologies
  • 3) Demonstrated MultiCloud Insight Portal at variety of roadshows -
  • 3.1) NTT Netmagic Bangalore Datacenter Launch 2019,
  • 3.2) Gartner Summit 2019 at Goa,
  • 3.3) Google Cloud Summit 2019 at Bangalore
  • 4) Demonstrate the value to customers in India Region
  • 5) Part of the Netmagic Leadership Team
  • 6) More importantly, coming from startup/founder background, Building the agile innovative culture fundamentally questioning each and everyone to align themselves to do the right thing for the organization and not doing things rightly
  • 7) Worked with Marketing to launch MultiCloud Portal, published multiple cloud articles and white papers along with Frost and Sullivan on MultiCloud.
Cloud InfrastructureBusiness DevelopmentAmazon Web Services (AWS)Microsoft Azure

Digitalocean campsh shark india

Jury

Nov 2016Dec 2016 · 1 mo · Bangalore

  • Review interesting ideas, POCs submitted by students across India and shortlist finalists. Judge submissions and jury the finalists.
Cloud InfrastructureBusiness DevelopmentAmazon Web Services (AWS)Start-ups ManagementStart-up VenturesLean Startup

Founder of bangalore hybrid cloud meetup group

Founder

Dec 2015Jan 2019 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore

  • Host, Run, Drive Hybrid Cloud Management Talks and Networking . Onboard partners and industry leaders to contribute and foster hybrid cloud adoption.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Nasscom product conclave 2015

Jury

Jul 2015Oct 2015 · 3 mos · Bangalore

  • As one of the jury, part of organising committe, review 100s of startup applications and evaluate based on NASSCOM's criteria for showcasing at the country's premier start festival.

Google launchpad

Tech Mentor

Jan 2015May 2015 · 4 mos · Bangalore

  • Part of the inaugural Google Launchpad program, 5 day intense bootcamp, As a tech mentor of couple of startups (Firlps, iReff), review startups architectural / tech designs / challenges and help them come with better cloud architecture design.

Actonmagic (acquired by netmagic (a ntt communications company))

Founder, CEO & CTO

Jan 2014Jan 2018 · 4 yrs · Bangalore

  • ActOnMagic simplifies your cloud journey with ActOnCloud Platform. ActOnCloud helps you to provision, manage, optimise and scale your cloud application on ANY cloud.
  • As a founder, really proud to have built from nothing to where it is today. Proud of the great team, partners and customers.
  • We are proud of the following achievements:
  • ActOnMagic's ActOnCloud Platform is recognised as a Hybrid Cloud Management provider by 451 Research
  • ActOnCloud is a winner of NASSCOM Emerge50 2016 award
  • ActOnCloud is available on Cloud Marketplaces:
  • IBM Cloud Marketplace: https://marketplace.ibmcloud.com/apps/6099#!overview
  • DigitalOcean Community: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/projects/actoncloud
  • CitrixReady: https://citrixready.citrix.com/actonmagic-technologies/actoncloud.html
  • ActOnMagic won many prestigious awards include Hot100, NASSCOM.

Goguroo

Founder

Dec 2011Sep 2012 · 9 mos · Bangalore

  • GoGuroo.com is a social network to connect remarkable students and working professional with a dream to help students to find their dream career. This was aimed to build a minimal but more social version of LinkedIn + Meetups.
  • The network attracted 160+ members, across multiple countries.
  • Conducted special "Meet your nostradamus" workshop to 200+ students at a engineering college (was Ranked 8) in India. One of the proud sponsor of Kruzade event 12 at PSG Tech, Coimbatore.
  • GoGuroo.com thought originally sparked in the year 2009 to experience "Entrepreneurship" part of Oviasoft.

Citrix systems

Manager Product Development

Sep 2010Dec 2013 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

  • Development Manager, Scrum Master, Project/Program Manager, Developer for Citrix CloudPortal Business Manager (CPBM) Product.
  • Played key role in successful integration of that Cloud.com & VMLogix part of Cloud Platform Group.
  • Took additional QA manager capacity at crisis times & helped sr. management with building additional R&D capacity.
  • Sept 2010 - Dec 2010
  • Prod Dev Manager, QA Manager, Developer for XenServer Self Service Manager Product (in Python) - a Citrix approach for Private Cloud Management
  • Project/Program Managed and feature design and development.
  • Delivered Web Self-Service part of XenServer Cowley Release.
  • Owned PM responsibilities and quality process improvements for the Cloud team. Design and implementation specific product features and ease of product adoption.

Vmlogix (acquired by citrix)

Web Self Service Product Lead

May 2010Sep 2010 · 4 mos · Bangalore

  • Delivered Web Self Service Product (a XenServer component) - a simple to deploy & easy to use virtual machine sharing (mini Private Cloud App) - Developed in Python.
  • Happy to be part of the successful exit.

Hewlett-packard

3 roles

Software Analyst

Promoted

Oct 2005May 2010 · 4 yrs 7 mos

  • Worked across various "HP Insight Software" product lines (HP-VMM, SMP, PMP & SIM).
  • Lead design & development of heterogeneous virtualization management software managing Vmware ESX, Citrix Xenserver, Microsoft HyperV and HP Integrity VM.
  • Program managed requirements between HP and Citrix, Redhat.
  • Also played manager role for VMM QA project - This additional responsibilty involved ramping up a QA team and manage the tasks assigned to them. Engaged and Managed the relationship with extended team @ Mphasis
  • Performed RCA for various release related activities and worked with senior management to drive best practices back into the project.
  • Provided training to field engineers on product enhancements and other changes. Integrate Virtual machine management product into HP Matrix solution.
  • Published whitepapers on product features. Resolve field reported customer issues.
  • October 2005 – March 2007 (1 year 6 months)
  • This position involved in creating world class data center automation product using rules engine, webservices and other technologies.
  • Part of this role, mentored junior engineers, managed project trainees, lead a group of people to deliver policy engine. Worked with PM in WBS, Project plan, schedule, Kickoff, Signoff meetings.
  • This project was based on Agile programming methodology.

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Sep 2003Sep 2005 · 2 yrs

  • This position involved CPE and Development of Internet Services products on HP-UX like Sendmaill, DHCPv6, Mailer clients and DNS; Acted as module lead to break issues/feature enhancements and assign and track issues at module level.
  • Also mentor junior engineers and patch management for various projects.

Software Engineer

May 2001Sep 2003 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • This position involved CPE and Development of products like Sendmaill, DHCPv6, Mailer clients and DNS;

Education

PSG College of Technology

BE — Computer Science & Engineering

Jan 1998Jan 2001

Periyar University

DCT — Computer Technology

Jan 1995Jan 1998

Himalayan Academy

The Master Course — Hindu Philosophy and Spirituality

Feb 2022Dec 2022

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