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Good people make good companies. If you imbue the right people with the right spirit, things will fall in place.

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    Saravana Kumar

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    Saravana Kumar

    Founder and CEO

    As the founder of BizTalk360, Saravana also fulfills the role of CEO, where he is responsible for the strategic direction of the company and most importantly, our clients. A Microsoft Integration MVP since 2007, Saravana was awarded the "Integration MVP of the Year 2013" by Microsoft. With more than a decade of experience handling BizTalk customers across the world, Saravana was frustrated seeing customers struggling with same challenges again and again when it comes to BizTalk sever administration and operations. The idea of BizTalk360 sparked to him over a cup of coffee with his fellow MVP’s, and therefore he started a pet project to address some of the challenges faced by BizTalk administrators, which slowly turned out into full blown commercial product helping customers across the world. Most importantly, he always focuses on translating the client goals into successful strategies.

    Saravana is a very active member in the BizTalk server community. A popular speaker, you can spot him often presenting at various BizTalk conferences, user groups, local colleges etc. across Europe, USA and India. If you are a BizTalk programmer or administrator, it’s likely that you’ve read something from him or heard him speak on BizTalk related topics. His blog is very popular among the BizTalk community, attracting over 11,000 readers a month. Asides from brainstorming on the latest projects, you can see him spending plenty of time reading/writing blogs, spending time with his kids and is a MacBook genius.

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    Lex Hegt

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    Lex Hegt

    Technical Lead

    Lex works as a Technical Lead at BizTalk360/Kovai Ltd. He works in the Information Technology for more than 25 years, and with BizTalk Server since 2004. His first BizTalk assignments were as a developer, but he also has many years of experience as a BizTalk administrator. In May 2012 Lex founded BizTalk Events (www.biztalkevents.com), a website which shows a calendar with world wide BizTalk related events, trainings and webcasts. Further Lex is a board member of the Dutch BizTalk User Group, where he sometimes does presentations. He is also the initiator and co-founder of the Belgian BizTalk User Group. Lex has certifications for BizTalk Server 2006, BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and BizTalk Server 2010.

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    Duncan Barker

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    Duncan Barker

    Business Development Manager

    Duncan is our Business Development Manager committed to spreading the word about the amazing difference BizTalk360 can make to your company and trying to expand the whole BizTalk360 community. He is responsible for coordinating the company’s outbound message and welcomes any enquiry from BizTalk users to discuss how they can connect with us.

    Duncan has nearly 30 years’ experience working as a Sales Trader in Financial Markets for 2 Investment Banks. He has enjoyed managing teams, promoting and demonstrating services to potential clients and was quick to spot opportunity in the technological revolution when trading moved from pit to screen. He says the enthusiasm and exuberance of the BizTalk360 office reminds him of City dealing rooms, everyone loves working in a fast moving environment and everyone makes a difference every day.

    Away from the office, Duncan is deeply involved in his local tennis club where he is a team captain, competition organiser and committee member responsible for organising social events on and off court. He regularly plays for the club in the Kent Leagues and can be found on court most weekends practicing with his friends and fellow club members.

    As well as tennis, Duncan is a keen football fan. His West London roots means he has QPR in his blood but he is now loyal to his local team, Bromley FC who he watches every other Saturday at home and also occasionally travels with friends to away matches.

    Be sure to contact Duncan about anything concerned with BizTalk360 to discuss our community.

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    Bhavana

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    Bhavana

    Finance / Operations

    Bhavana is our Finance and Operations manager dedicated to all of the things that make BizTalk360 a wonderful place to work and have fun. She is responsible for all the operations, marketing and event management activities. Bhavana comes with solid 11 years of expertise in this field and ensures that our customers and team are well taken care of. Be it issuing customer license keys, payroll, benefits, taxes, accounting, dealing with the banks — she does it all! She plays a pivotal role in providing management oversights for planning, marketing, and has played the key role in organizing dozens of events in the past several years. Yet again, without her we couldn’t have done it.

    When idle, she could be seen flashing her patented smile and sharing her motherly wisdom with her colleagues that she gained during the upbringing of her darling daughter, who is growing up really fast according to her. Routine cooking can be boring, so she makes sure to spend time-out with her daughter looking for different dishes and try them out. Bhavana loves to read fiction books, and usually cries while watching serious movies; so prefers to watch comedy ones. Well, if Clint Eastwood can cry in Million Dollar Baby, we can shed a couple of tears too!! Nothing wrong in it.

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    Gowri

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    Gowri

    VP - Sales and Marketing

    Gowri is often the first point of contact for our new prospects/clients. She comes with an extensive experience managing QA/PM activities for banking sector. Along with PM and people management skills, Gowri joined BizTalk 360 team with huge aspirations for growth and assisting the team for a smooth product delivery. She is now our VP of Sales and Marketing responsible for inbound/outbound sales and marketing activities. As a strong believer in team work, she always goes one step further in making the team happy and motivated. She takes the pain away from the team by tackling the important processes while the team is busy building products on the other side.

    When she is not in front of the computer, she enjoys spending time with her family/kids and curling up with a good book. She enjoys reading and her interests include parental books, motivational and autobiography books. Music is important to her, and she says that it keeps her active throughout the day. Added to that, she has taken up knitting as a new hobby.

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    Daniel

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    Daniel

    Junior Support Developer

    Daniel is our Software Programmer responsible for development of new and existing features of BizTalk360 and handles customer support at times. Among his many skills, he is a self-taught entrepreneur. With his business acumen and management skills, Daniel is excited to bring new perspective to the team. He started his college graduation in computing and games development courses where he was taught how to design and create websites, databases, software and games.

    Daniel loves gaming. “Once a Gamer, Always a Gamer”, right? Daniel used to be a hard-core gamer, well at least he used to be until his government reminded him to pay his taxes. During his graduation days, he used to gain few extra cash by upgrading computer hardware for personal use as well as computer maintenance works. After graduation, he opened his own gaming company with few other people. Running his own business has taught Daniel a great deal about management, communication & client relationship. Furthermore, he loves to travel with his better half to free up his mind from the daily challenges and enjoy what the world has to offer.

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    Kajal

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    Kajal

    Licensing / Administration / Customer Relationship Executive

    Kajal is our Licensing & Accounts specialist handling all the annual support & subscriptions, licensing & administration functions in the UK office. She comes with a Bachelors in Finance, which makes her apt for this role. Already an integral part of the team, she now deals with majority of licensing activities for our products. Kajal is an all-rounder working across important teams and she is pretty much excited to bring a new perspective to the team at BizTalk360.

    Outside office, she’s a wanderlust. Kajal is a travel bug and loves to go trekking every now and then. She’s kept her trekking activities on pause mode for a while, but will resume it anytime. When asked what she would be doing if she could do anything right now, she answered, “Shopping”. Kajal always goes by the saying “Keep Calm and Go Shopping”. She often treats her to a little retail therapy and says it always works. Well, you may call it shopping, but she calls it as retail therapy, and we call her a shopaholic.

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    Arunkumar

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    Arunkumar

    Technical Lead

    Arun, as we call him, is our Technical Lead who is responsible for learning and developing new products and enhancing features for the existing products. Meanwhile, he also provides technical support and online demos for few most our customers. Arun comes with a solid 9 years of expertise and has been instrumental in shaping our products to what it is today. He heads up his team of technical masterminds who deal with the majority of maintenance tasks for BizTalk360 clients.

    Arun takes credit for his all-round contribution to the team, from technical know-how to organizing and setting up the India operations. He has been working at our India office since the inception, when we opened our doors in December 2013. He is a great leader, loves to spend time with his family, interested in startups, employment generation, team building activities, professional networking and stays up-to-date in current affairs. He always understands the value of networking.

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    Senthil

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    Senthil

    Technical Lead

    Senthil is a meticulous coder who’s all about the details. Always poised and professional, he is our Technical Lead with over 11 years of experience writing million lines of code for various products. Experienced in Microsoft Technologies & Oracle and skilled in developing mobile apps, Senthil spearheads the India team to maintain the coding standards and build process for projects through their full life cycle. Our people at India office says “Senthil is able to work on anything you throw at him”, literally he could.

    Outside office, Senthil is all about sports, so he plays a lot of cricket and football with his sons. Watches a lot of Tennis. Senthil is a perfect foil of his favorite cricketer Rahul Dravid, who himself is “Mr Perfect”.

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    Mohan

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    Mohan

    Senior Technical Writer

    Mohan is our Senior Technical Writer responsible for product documentation and all other content related activities. He combines his passion for business, technology and writing to spread the word about BizTalk360. Mohan is responsible to work with cross functional teams to visualize and create product documentation and marketing content. He feels writing is so much fun and it is satisfying to capture the company’s soul and passion, and make it live through marketing messages.

    Outside office, Mohan actively volunteers with an organization that supports female children educations His real life superheroes are teachers and nurses because they have the power to change anybody’s life even though they are under-appreciated. He still loves the nostalgia of classic cartoons shows like Popeye, Flintstones and many more. He also makes sure that he stays up-to-date in the latest advancements of mobile technology and computers. Loves computer gaming, gardening, cooking barbecues, loves sports and reads a lot of inspirational books.

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    Prabagaran

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    Prabagaran

    Senior Design Engineer

    Praba, as we call him, is responsible for all the design related activities in BizTalk360. He is the one-stop solution for all design issues we have. Comes with an extensive experience in UI/UX design, Photoshop, CSS, Front-end development, jQuery and PHP. Praba has this special talent of giving life to textual content in the form of design. He calls himself as a “Design-geneer” and we don’t know why. 🙂 He ensures that our rustic, hard-coded product is plated, garnished and beautifully presented to our end customers.

    Outside office, you can see him touring the city with fellow mates. An ardent Rajinikanth fan. Loves to sip a drink whenever he gets a chance. A lovable husband, he loves to spend time with his wife. Praba has been working at our India office since the very beginning, when we opened our doors in December 2013.

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    Parthiban

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    Parthiban

    UI/UX designer

    Parthiban recently joined us as a UI/UX Designer, and his core responsibilities are website design, development and maintenance works. An advocate of clean, user-friendly design, Parthiban brings in a wealth of design know-how and relevant industry experience. He is serving as an integral support for quality design and continues to stay up to date with current design practices. Having worked for a diverse range of clientele, he is renowned for designing creative web interfaces that focuses on effective user experience and content presentation.

    Outside office, you can see him playing a lot of sports – whatever it may be. He is so obsessed with Cricket that he never misses a match that team India plays – sees till the last ball of a match (even though we are going to lose) and sometimes even the presentation ceremony. Watches plenty of movies and that’s his second most favorite pastime.

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    Vishnu

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    Vishnu

    Software Engineer

    "Cheta" – as we call him (which means brother in Malayalam language - his mother tongue), is a rare breed. He acts as our Software Engineer and System Administrator. See, that’s the kind of people we have at BizTalk360. He specializes in enterprise system development on the Windows platform, as well as spends most of his time coding and resolving most of our system related issues. Vishnu provides support for development and staging environments including Continuous Integration, Networking, and Supporting developers working with a variety of products and third party integrations.

    Outside office, Vishnu loves to watch movies and takes up long drive with his fellow mates, taking plenty of photographs. He is currently an avid Game of Thrones fan and is always up-to-date on all the latest and greatest TV shows. He takes a lot of selfies. He loves hacking. He loves cooking. An absolute gadget freak. He loves jailbreaking/rooting mobile phones. And any gadget related questions, feel free to throw at him (he will have a solution).

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    RajeshKannan

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    RajeshKannan

    Senior Software Engineer

    Kannan – as we call him, is our Software Engineer with quite few certifications under his belt. He is responsible for developing elegant and user friendly solutions and leverages his expertise in front end and back end developments to craft business applications that drive towards outcomes and satisfy all stakeholders. Kannan is skilled at solving complex problems and enjoys applying his development experience in both technical and non-technical ways.

    Outside office, you can see him spending most of his time with his friends. He’s the best cook on our floor. He can provide top quality lunch for our team at any given time. Believe it or not, he once cooked for 50+ people during the initial days of his career. Amazing, isn’t it? Having come from an agricultural background, he has this love towards nature & rain all the time. Loves music/movies, loves last-seat-bus-ride, loves to swim, Rajinikanth fan and a great mentor for his juniors. He says the secret of his success is that he surrounds himself with a diverse group and being in love with people.

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    Arunprabhu

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    Arunprabhu

    Junior Software Engineer

    Arun recently joined us as a Software Engineer Intern, helping us develop new products and strategies. He has passion for highly efficient and beautiful programs. The journey he has taken over the years has led him to BizTalk360, where he plays an important role in assisting our development guys with his coding skills. 

    Besides his passion for coding, he enjoys music and cricket. In his spare time, Arun is most likely seen exploring the outdoors, playing cricket and screams furiously at the TV whenever Indian Cricket team is on the ground for batting. Craves new experiences through learning, art, food, and adventure. 

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    Mekala

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    Mekala

    Test Lead

    Mekala is the person who is responsible for keeping our products clean. She’s our Testing lead and handles the entire QA team. She has a great attention to detail and a strong work ethic. Mekala comes with diverse experience in all different testing phases of software testing life cycle. She is well known for her thoroughness in creating test cases, as well as her skill of coordinating her team to ensure the quality of the product end to end. She plays a pivotal role in making our product get delivered to every customer in a delicious way.

    Outside office, her hands are busy making jewelry, sewing, embroidery, fish keeping, arts, nail art… the list goes on. And keeps herself updated with what’s happening around the world. She has a caring outlook on the world and her compassion for others can be felt through the care she puts into her work. Combined with her exceptional work ethic and unique crafting skills, Mekala is a true asset to our team.

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    Venitta

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    Venitta

    Junior Test Engineer

    Venitta – once our Operations Assistant supporting the day-to-day operations of our Coimbatore office. Her responsibility was to ensure all is well with delivery team in India, from on-boarding to assisting to resolve infrastructure challenges and assisting the UK team in administration and licensing of our products. Because of her interests in testing field, today, she is our Jr. Testing Engineer, responsible for enduring end to end product quality and product licensing. She comes with a dynamic background experience in customer support and product licensing which adds a unique value to the QA team.

    Outside office, she likes to spend time with her family and loves to cook. Loves being outdoors on nice days and spending time with her family. Known for her irresistible charm, Venitta is good in floral decorations and beautifies any given space in a matter of minutes. Her idea of a perfect world is one “where she can travel with her better half and “eat everything and explore all the scenic locations ever”!

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    Saranya

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    Saranya

    Senior Test Engineer

    Saran – as we call her, is our Senior Test Engineer and takes responsibility in keeping our products clean and well documented. She is a certified ISTQB tester who comes with a solid 5 years of experience in all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), implementing test plans, test cases and defect tracking. Her compassion for others can be felt in the creativity and care she puts into her work.

    Outside office, she is very passionate about designing elegant attires. Her kid is her life and always makes sure she spends enough time with her little one. Loves soft music, watches selective movies, loves to cook, reads plenty of books and does artistic work when her kid falls asleep. Born and raised in Coimbatore, she always has a love towards this city and says it’s a great place to live and work.

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    Kuzhali

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    Kuzhali

    Test Engineer

    Kuzhali joined us as a Jr. Test Engineer in the mid of 2014 and plays a pivotal role in assisting the Testing team with her knowledge on testing methodologies to ensure the quality of the product is satisfied. She has a better knowledge in both Software development life cycle and Software testing life cycle. Kuzhali is strong in agile methodologies and with using various bug tracking tools.

    Outside office, she likes to hear good songs – language isn’t a barrier for her. Never misses to watch the latest of the latest movies. Loves to play keyboard and does a lot of cycling. She is very much passionate of reading crime and detective novels.

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    Indhirani

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    Indhirani

    Executive Accounts

    Indhirani is our Accounts Executive who is responsible for preparing and maintaining all company finance and accounts. She comes with a diverse experience in handling accounts and has recently joined our team taking up a huge responsibility by supporting our priority accounts with planning, testing and communication. Indhirani provides a wide range of support that include cash management, payables, cash flow analysis, taxes, payroll and human resources support.

    Outside office, her hands are busy designing clothes and knitting. Having recently taken up a tailoring course, she is now good at stitching designer clothes. Has a special interest in arts & crafts.

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    Sivaramakrishnan

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    Sivaramakrishnan

    Support Engineer

    Sivaram (aka) Hero as we call him – is our  Support Engineer with quite a few certifications under his belt. He has been instrumental in handling the customer support area, writing support blogs about product features and maintaining all kind of statistical reports related to the product. His attention to details and quick to act reflexes enables him to wear multiple hats on any given day.

    Outside office, Sivaram never runs short of activities. Always keeps himself occupied. He is an active member in multiple non-profit organizations, has an immense respect for the Indian Army. He always takes pride in saying that he has met (Late) Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam quite a few times. A gadget freak, takes plenty of selfies, loves to cook, loves to workout, loves photography and has a special love towards Mutton Biryani.

How we run our company?

We make sure people love coming to work. They shouldn’t dread Monday mornings. We create an environment where work shouldn’t feel like work. We want everyone to be learners, thinkers, innovators and problem solvers. We challenge and inspire each other every day.

We pride ourselves in employing more women employees – Our entire QA team (5 employees), our Sales and Accounts team (5 employees) from the UK, as well as our India operations team (2 employees). We also have women employees in development and customer support areas. What generally is a male-dominated software industry, we’re proud to have nearly 40% of our workforce covered by women employees.

We purposely hired our UK office in a suburb instead of going to central London so that everyone will have a good work-life balance. All our UK women employees do their regular school runs, either dropping off or picking up kids from school. We don’t want to spend 2 hours a day commuting and getting tired for nothing.

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Our India office is completely a friendly environment. There is no strong hierarchy. We keep pretty much a flat organizational structure. The UK and India teams are mixed up well; they have their daily scrum stand up meetings and constant discussions between the two teams.

We provide open access to all employees. They are free to explore and see the opportunities. We have taken people from our India office to US and UK for conferences, once in a while we brought them to our UK office for short term work. In the future, we will be increasing mixing up teams between UK and India to improve collaboration and exposure.

We provide top range equipment to our staff. All UK employees get MacBook or Lenovo T410, Herman Miller Aeron chair, 4K Dell 27” monitor, Jabra headset as a standard. We never compromise on quality of equipment that we use. We try to match the India team as much as possible.

We may be a small team, but we do not compromise on our work environment. We have equipped ourselves with modern meeting rooms with high end television screen and video conferencing equipment.

Every day, we have our lunch together as a team and enjoy having non-work related conversations, be it about food, sometimes it may be about fast cars and technology, sometime we even play some fun games like “guess a location”.

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In a nutshell: Have fun, do exceptional work, build the best product in the market, experiment, pay attention to details, treat people well, be honest, have a positive impact on the world around us, and never forget to learn.

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