Leadership

Prakash Saralaya

CEO and President

Prakash comes with 30+ years of experience in the Digital Technology and Engineering Innovations. He has worked in USA, Europe and India in Technology, Healthcare, E-Commerce, Manufacturing domains and various IT / Technology landscapes. He was instrumental in developing many Technology & High-Value Engineering Centers for Corporations from USA, Canada and Europe. Some of the engagements he worked include companies like GE, Rolls-Royce, CATERPILLAR, Gulfstream, Parker Hannifin, Ingersoll-Rand, Stadler, PTC, Bosal, Timken, Lennox, Neste Oil, Ford Bacon & Davis and ABB.

Prior to founding InOpTra, Prakash was Chief Executive Officer of TAAL Tech for 12 years, since its inception until it grew to a size of 500+ team with business in 12+ countries (Americas, Europe and Australia).

Prakash has done his Bachelor Degree in Engineering from NIT, Surathkal, India, and MBA from NIU, USA.

Dr. C.K. Taneja

SVP Digital Transformation & Enterprise Resiliency

Dr. C.K. Taneja brings 30+ years of rich and global experience in driving enterprise transformation across Telecom, BFSI, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Media, and IT. At InOpTra, he leads strategic relationship development, key account growth, global service delivery, and operational excellence initiatives.

Having lived and worked in 17 countries and held senior roles at Northern Trust, British Telecom, Singapore Telecom, Telekom Malaysia, Amdocs, RE/MAX LLC, and Cable & Wireless, Dr. Taneja offers deep cross-functional expertise, organizational resilience, sustainable growth, and global delivery. He is a recognized expert in operational efficiency, cost optimization, and business transformation, delivering large cost savings, substantial profitability gains, and significant reductions in go-to-market goals. His ability to align strategy with execution enables global organizations to adapt, innovate, and grow sustainably.

Dr. Taneja champions scalable, insight-driven service models that create measurable value and drive transformative outcomes for our enterprise clients in the USA and Europe.

Bhaskar Rao

SVP & Head – Product Engineering: Embedded & IoT

Bhaskar brings 30 years of experience and international expertise in high technology areas including - Embedded Systems, Large, Mini and Micro computers, ASICs and IoT. Bhaskar is a veteran in the Product Engineering, innovations and Technology areas, and involved in developing many Engineering and Technology Centers / teams. He was instrumental in developing many dedicated teams for multiple clients from USA and Europe. His passion is in using Automation as a tool to provide optimal engineering solutions to develop cost effective, creative and long-lasting products.

Bhaskar has an Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication and Post-Graduate degree in Electronics Design from IISc, Bangalore. His previous experience includes the position of Managing Director and President of SCM Microsystems (India), VP – Technical, U&I Scotty Computers and Manager – Hardware Development, Ncore Technology and Senior Manager – Product Engineering in PSI Data Systems.

Karthik Jeganathan

Frankfurt, Germany Senior Vice President, Strategic Relations - Europe

Karthik brings a rich experience of more than two decades in IT and Engineering business development with focus on developing long-term partnerships and technology teams for European Companies. He has immense experience Technology / IT domains and worked in various capacity including as Project Engineer, Onsite Coordinator and Client Engagement Manager. His prior experience includes business development and client engagement roles for various corporations in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland and the UK for Tech Mahindra, 3i Infotech and L&T Technology Services.

Karthik has done his Bachelor Degree in Engineering from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore and MBA from London Business School. He currently lives in Frankfurt, Germany.

Ganesh M R

Vice President, HR -Talent Management

Ganesh is an Human Resource domain professional with over two decades of experience in Top MNCs & Indian IT Companies in Talent Acquisition, Retention and Development, Performance Management, Employee Relations and Organizational HR Strategies. Ganesh has vast experience in attracting high caliber Engineering and Technology (IT) professionals, and understands dynamic challenges of attrition / retention in Indian and Global talent market. He brings unique expertise and connects in VLSI & embedded hardware, IoT, Data, ML /AI, Cloud and other upcoming Digital Technology space.

Ganesh has done his Bachelor’s degree in Commerce and Masters in Human Resource Management from Mangalore University. His career experiences are as HR Manager at BPL Telecom and Bharti BT,Sr Manager HR at Vinciti Networks, Center Head at Perot Systems and India HR Head for SanDisk.

Gururaja Bhatt

Chief Financial Officer

Guru is a Qualified Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary, and brings more than 15 years of Experience in Business Finance, Cost Optimization, Performance Management and Accounting, specific to IT and Engineering Business. Guru has a Bachelor Degree in Business management and he is a registered Valuer (IBBI & ICAIRVO).

Guru has very good experience in the areas of developing Operational Excellence, Performance and Incentive Management, Development of Business Plans, Organizational KPIs, Automation of operational processes, etc. He was closely involved in developing business partnerships in IT and Technology businesses from USA and India. He comes with prior experience as the Senior Manager Finance at Wipro Technologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Security, Cost & Operations

What we deliver
  • Access governance (RBAC/ABAC, key mgmt)
  • Observability: traces/metrics/logs & runbooks
  • Job‑level cost attribution & budgets
  • Incident response, drills & postmortems
Business outcomes
  • Provable security posture
  • Cost visibility & guardrails
  • Higher reliability & faster recovery

Data Pipelines & Storage

What we deliver
  • Tiered storage (scratch/object/archive)
  • Parallel I/O optimization & caching
  • Streaming ingest & result publishing
  • Data governance, lineage & masking
Business outcomes
  • I/O bottlenecks removed
  • Lower storage cost per TB
  • Trusted data for teams & partners

Performance Engineering & Tuning

What we deliver
  • Hot‑spot profiling & vectorization guidance
  • MPI/OMP tuning & domain decomposition
  • GPU kernels (CUDA/HIP) optimization
  • Perf budgets & SLOs per workload
Business outcomes
  • Shorter time‑to‑solution
  • Better node‑hour efficiency
  • Reduced queue wait & re‑runs

Containerized HPC & Orchestration

What we deliver
  • Apptainer/Singularity images for ISV & custom apps
  • MPI/CUDA compatibility matrices
  • Kubernetes + device plugins (GPU/NVSwitch)
  • CICD for images & env provenance
Business outcomes
  • Reproducible science & engineering
  • Faster onboarding for teams
  • Hybrid portability (on‑prem ↔ cloud)

Cluster Architecture & Provisioning

What we deliver
  • Node specs (CPU/GPU, memory, NVMe tiers)
  • High‑speed fabric (IB/RoCE) topology
  • Golden images, OS tuning & drivers
  • Scheduler config & QoS/partitioning
Business outcomes
  • Predictable performance at scale
  • Higher job throughput & fairness
  • Fewer noisy‑neighbor issues

HPC Assessment & Roadmap

What we deliver
  • Workload inventory (CPU/GPU/IO profiles)
  • Benchmarking & capacity modeling
  • TCO/ROI with placement (on‑prem ↔ cloud)
  • Reference architectures & migration waves
Business outcomes
  • Clear business case & timeline
  • Right‑sized infra for peak & steady state
  • Risk‑aware plan with fast wins

Migration & Hybrid Ops

What we deliver
  • Move/modernize patterns (rehost, refactor, replace)
  • Coexistence & data sync strategies
  • Observability (logs, traces, metrics)
  • Runbooks, on‑call, and MTTR reduction
Business outcomes
  • Predictable cutovers
  • Error‑budget informed operations
  • Sustained reliability at lower cost

Security & Compliance

What we deliver
  • Identity & access hardening (RACF/ACF2)
  • Vuln mgmt, SAST/SCA/DAST pipelines
  • SBOM + sign/verify gates
  • Evidence capture for audits (ISO/SOC)
Business outcomes
  • Reduced risk surface
  • Provable supply‑chain integrity
  • Faster, cleaner audits

Data & Batch Modernization

What we deliver
  • Batch inventory & critical path analysis
  • Workload offload (ETL, analytics, reports)
  • Event streaming from VSAM/Db2
  • Ephemeral test data + masking
Business outcomes
  • Shorter batch windows
  • Lower MIPS usage & cost
  • Near‑real‑time data for business

Mainframe DevOps & CI/CD

What we deliver
  • Git‑based workflows, code review, PR checks
  • Automated build/test (Db2, CICS, IMS)
  • SBOM/signing & supply‑chain security
  • Blue‑green/canary for high‑risk changes
Business outcomes
  • 3× release cadence
  • Lower change failure rate
  • Auditability & compliance by design

Refactoring & API Enablement

What we deliver
  • Domain carving & service boundaries
  • COBOL refactor, code quality & tests
  • CICS/IMS API façade, event adapters
  • Contract tests & consumer‑driven versioning
Business outcomes
  • Faster change with smaller blast radius
  • Reusable APIs for channels & partners
  • Reduced tech debt over time

Legacy Assessment & Roadmap

What we deliver
  • AS‑IS discovery (apps, data, batch, tooling)
  • TCO/ROI model with risk map
  • Strangler‑fig target architecture
  • Phased roadmap: quick wins → scale
Business outcomes
  • Clarity on effort, risk, and value
  • Prioritized backlog aligned to KPIs
  • Stakeholder alignment & funding case

Cost & Sustainability (FinOps)

What we deliver
  • TCO & usage visibility
  • Chargeback/showback models
  • Power/thermal telemetry
  • Workload placement policies
Business outcomes
  • Lower run cost
  • Greener footprint
  • Capacity matched to demand

Security & Compliance

What we deliver
  • SIEM/SOAR integrations
  • Zero‑trust network & identity
  • SBOM/signing & supply chain
  • Evidence capture & audit trails
Business outcomes
  • Reduced risk surface
  • Audit‑ready at all times
  • Developer‑friendly guardrails

Platform Services (Compute/Storage/DB)

What we deliver
  • VM/container platforms
  • SAN/NAS tiers & backup
  • Database services (DBaaS)
  • Golden images & patching
Business outcomes
  • Faster provisioning
  • Lower toil
  • Consistent performance

Network, Edge & Connectivity

What we deliver
  • Core/DC fabric design
  • SD‑WAN & zero‑trust rollout
  • DNS/DHCP/IPAM automation
  • Edge site standardization
Business outcomes
  • Higher availability
  • Better user experience
  • Simplified operations

Capacity, DR & Resilience

What we deliver
  • Capacity planning & forecasting
  • Backup/restore & immutability
  • DR strategy, testing & governance
  • Multi‑site HA patterns
Business outcomes
  • Confident RTO/RPO
  • Lower data loss risk
  • Stable performance at peak

Hybrid Operations & SRE

What we deliver
  • Unified monitoring & alerting
  • On‑call, runbooks & incident drills
  • Change mgmt & release coordination
  • SLOs, error budgets & postmortems
Business outcomes
  • Reduced MTTR
  • Fewer incidents & pages
  • Predictable releases

Incident Response & Threat Hunting

What we deliver
  • IR playbooks & tabletop exercises
  • Forensic triage & evidence handling
  • Hypothesis‑driven threat hunts
  • Crisis communications support
Business outcomes
  • Confidence under pressure
  • Reduced impact & downtime
  • Lessons learned to SRE/AppSec

AppSec & DevSecOps

What we deliver
  • Policy‑as‑code gates in CI/CD
  • SBOM + sign/verify & provenance
  • Secrets mgmt and vault integration
  • Threat modeling & secure patterns
Business outcomes
  • Lower escaped defects
  • Supply‑chain integrity
  • Developer‑friendly guardrails

Cloud Security (CSPM/CWPP)

What we deliver
  • Baseline policies & drift detection
  • IaC scanning & secret hygiene
  • Runtime threat detection (CWPP)
  • Kubernetes posture & admission controls
Business outcomes
  • Fewer misconfigurations
  • Shift‑left policy enforcement
  • Provable compliance continuous

Identity & Access Governance

What we deliver
  • SSO/MFA rollout & hardening
  • Role engineering & access reviews
  • Privileged access mgmt (PAM)
  • Joiner‑Mover‑Leaver automation
Business outcomes
  • Lower lateral‑movement risk
  • Cleaner audits & recertification
  • Happier users with fewer prompts

Vulnerability & Patch Management

What we deliver
  • Continuous scanning (app, infra, cloud)
  • Exploitability & asset criticality scoring
  • Patch scheduling & change orchestration
  • Executive and auditor‑ready reporting
Business outcomes
  • Reduced attack surface
  • Predictable patch SLOs
  • Better audit posture

SOC as a Service & MDR

What we deliver
  • SIEM content engineering & detections
  • Managed EDR/XDR triage & containment
  • Alert tuning, runbooks, and playbooks
  • Threat intel curation & enrichment
Business outcomes
  • Fewer false positives
  • Faster containment & recovery
  • Improved dwell‑time & MTTR KPIs

Test Data & Environments

Compliant, realistic data and right-sized environments that keep teams unblocked.

What we deliver
  • Data subsetting, masking & synthetic data
  • Service virtualization & dependency mocking
  • Ephemeral envs via IaC & blueprints
  • Secrets & policy management
Business outcomes
  • Higher pipeline throughput
  • Reduced data risk in testing
  • Lower environment cost

Observability & SRE

Production-grade telemetry with actionable runbooks and on‑call playbooks.

What we deliver
  • SLOs, error budgets, and alert hygiene
  • Tracing, logs, metrics with OTel
  • Incident response & postmortem practice
  • Capacity planning & cost governance
Business outcomes
  • Lower MTTR and better UX
  • Reduced toil and alert fatigue
  • Transparent reliability reporting

Performance & Security Testing

Stress your systems like production: scale, failover, and security controls verified pre‑release.

What we deliver
  • Load, soak, spike, and chaos testing
  • DAST/SAST/SCA and threat modeling
  • Resilience & capacity baselining
  • Security & performance dashboards
Business outcomes
  • Confidence under peak demand
  • Fewer Sev‑1 incidents
  • Improved compliance posture

Test Automation

Automation that reduces flaky tests, speeds feedback, and increases coverage where it matters.

What we deliver
  • Contract, API, and UI frameworks
  • Test data mgmt & environment virtualization
  • Parallelization & smart test selection
  • Quality gates & release dashboards
Business outcomes
  • Shorter lead time for changes
  • Fewer regressions in production
  • Objective release readiness

Cloud‑Native DevOps

Platform engineering with golden paths, secure defaults, and developer self‑service.

What we deliver
  • Multi-tenant clusters & policy guardrails
  • Service mesh, ingress, and traffic management
  • Cost/rightsizing & resilience patterns
  • Backups, DR, and chaos drills
Business outcomes
  • Higher developer velocity & autonomy
  • Improved security posture & compliance
  • Predictable scaling & spend

CI/CD Automation

Trunk-based development with multi-stage pipelines, ephemeral environments, and progressive delivery.

What we deliver
  • Pipelines with quality gates & artifact promotion
  • GitOps, IaC, and policy-as-code
  • Secrets management & supply-chain security (SLSA)
  • Blueprints & reusable pipeline templates
Business outcomes
  • Faster delivery with fewer manual steps
  • Consistent, auditable change management
  • Reduced incidents from misconfigurations

Why Partner with InOpTra

Domain-aware specialists with transparent governance, KPIs, and clear value tracking across delivery models.

What we deliver
  • Industry playbooks & accelerators
  • Flexible engagement: fixed, T&M, managed
  • Value realization dashboards
  • Risk, change, and stakeholder management
Business outcomes
  • Reduced time-to-value
  • Higher adoption and process compliance
  • Lower total cost of ownership

Support & Optimization

We operate with SRE practices, KPIs, and governance so your ERP stays reliable and efficient.

What we deliver
  • Runbooks, on-call, and incident response
  • Release mgmt, patching, and vulnerability mgmt
  • Performance & cost optimization
  • Enhancement backlog & roadmap mgmt
Business outcomes
  • Higher uptime & user satisfaction
  • Predictable releases and fewer regressions
  • Continuous improvement and transparency

Analytics & Reporting

Real-time, role-based dashboards with governed metrics and drill-downs for action.

What we deliver
  • Data models & semantic layers
  • Predictive analytics & anomaly detection
  • Embedded analytics inside ERP workflows
  • Self-service BI & data catalog
Business outcomes
  • Faster, fact-based decisions
  • Operational transparency & alerts
  • Data culture with governed access

ERP Modernization & Migration

We de-risk transitions with architecture blueprints, pilot migrations, and reversible cutovers.

What we deliver
  • Current-state assessment & target architecture
  • Data cleansing, mapping & migration rehearsal
  • Integration modernization & API gateways
  • Performance, cost, and resilience improvements
Business outcomes
  • Lower downtime & risk during transition
  • Reduced license and infrastructure spend
  • Faster change velocity post-migration

Custom ERP Development

Tailored modules and extensions: approvals, pricing, quality, warehousing, or domain-specific workflows.

What we deliver
  • Microservices & API-based extensions
  • Low-code accelerators & reusable components
  • Compliance-ready audit trails & roles
  • Performance & security hardening
Business outcomes
  • Fit-to-purpose without vendor lock-in
  • Higher user adoption & fewer manual steps
  • Governed change with lower total cost

End-to-End ERP Implementation

From requirement analysis to deployment, we orchestrate multi-domain rollouts with strong governance and change management.

What we deliver
  • Process discovery & fit-gap analysis
  • Configuration, custom development & integrations
  • Data migration (ETL), validations & UAT
  • Training, hypercare, and post go-live support
Business outcomes
  • Faster close cycles & accurate reporting
  • Inventory & working-capital optimization
  • Unified processes across functions & geographies

Quality Assurance / Testing

Quality engineered into every step — from unit to UX. Automation‑first, data‑driven, and CI/CD‑native.

What we deliver
  • Automation (API/UI), contract & component tests
  • Performance, security, and accessibility testing
  • Test data mgmt & environment virtualization
  • Shift‑left with quality gates in pipelines
Business outcomes
  • Faster releases with fewer regressions
  • Objective quality metrics per release
  • Lower total cost of quality

Application Maintenance

Proactive, SRE‑informed application management that blends prevention with rapid response and continuous improvement.

What we deliver
  • 24×7 monitoring, alerting, and on‑call playbooks
  • SLOs/SLA governance and error budgets
  • Cost/perf tuning and capacity planning
  • Patch, upgrade, and vulnerability management
Business outcomes
  • Fewer incidents and faster recovery
  • Predictable change with staged rollouts
  • Transparent reporting and continual improvement

Microservices

Decompose monoliths into modular services with clear contracts, independent deployability, and strong observability.

What we deliver
  • Domain-driven design (DDD) & bounded contexts
  • API gateways, service mesh, and contract testing
  • Kubernetes, containers, and autoscaling
  • Event streaming and eventual consistency
Business outcomes
  • Parallel delivery with smaller blast radius
  • Elastic scale and graceful degradation
  • Lower mean‑time‑to‑restore (MTTR)

Mobile Applications

Native and cross‑platform apps that feel effortless and work reliably in the field. Built with privacy, performance, and offline use in mind.

What we deliver
  • User research, journey mapping, and prototyping
  • Native (Swift/Kotlin) & cross‑platform (Flutter/React Native)
  • Edge/offline sync, push notifications, MDM
  • Embedded analytics & AI assistants
Business outcomes
  • Shorter task times and fewer errors
  • Field productivity and customer NPS uplift
  • Secure, policy‑compliant rollouts at scale

Web Applications

Modern web apps that are fast, accessible, and secure. Designed for real users and wired to your ecosystem with clean APIs.

What we deliver
  • Design systems & accessibility (WCAG 2.1)
  • SPA/MPA with SSR/ISR for performance
  • Observability (logs, traces, RUM)
  • Zero-trust principles & secure SDLC
Business outcomes
  • Higher conversion and task completion
  • Reduced tech debt and page load times
  • Predictable delivery with CI/CD

Enterprise Applications

We turn core systems into agile platforms that adapt to change. From ERP/CRM integration to legacy modernization, we simplify complexity so your teams focus on outcomes, not obstacles.

What we deliver
  • Process discovery and value mapping
  • API-first integration with ERP/CRM/PLM
  • Event-driven workflows and automation
  • Data governance, security & compliance by design
Business outcomes
  • Improved cycle time across key processes
  • Reliable, unified data for better decisions
  • Lower run cost with higher resilience
  • Self‑service portals with workflow automation and role‑based access.
  • Data‑driven dashboards and alerts for real‑time decisions.
  • Integration of legacy/ERP with modern web & mobile channels.
  • Migrations to cloud‑native and microservices architectures.
  • Discovery → MVP → Scale (lean, outcome‑first sprints).
  • Design systems & reusable components for speed and consistency.
  • DevSecOps with quality gates and test automation from day one.
  • Telemetry‑driven improvements post‑launch.