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Team at ROPODS

Our team includes a set of highly skilled professionals who are passionate about technology and the scalable change it can bring into the societies we live in today. They are here to deliver an insightful experience with an advanced expertise in scaling your IoT needs.

Mr. Venkat Vallapaneni

Founder and CEO

He holds an industry experience of 18+ years and a graduate degree from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology. Covering all aspects of IoT product development (IoT solutions architecture, Embedded systems, IC design and Technical Management). He is passionate about harnessing a positive change in lives by creating products that seamlessly fit in our world to enhance creativity and productivity. His design approach is based on re-usable platform approaches. He has worked closely with algorithms and firmware teams to achieve low power architecture using power partitioning, hardware- software partitioning, data handling schemes across multiple cores. Holding 4 US patents, 2 publications in IEEE Journals and conference proceeding.

Mr. Hardik Shah

Co-founder

A visionary with deep knowledge in technology and an alumni of IITB and IIMB, Mr. Hardik offers a rich experience of more than two decades in different capacities like system architecture, product management and business development. He involved as the Vice President of international business at ATI Motors – a robotics technology startup. An angel investor, advisor and mentor in several budding startups. He passionately spends his free time trekking through the woods of South India.

Mr. A.V.S.S Prasad

Chief Advisor

Mr. Prasad holds a humbling experience of 30+ years in design and development of parallel computers, microprocessors, DSP Cores, SoCs for mobiles, embedded systems. While having extreme technical knowledge he is also competent in managing large sized projects and teams. He takes pride in holding 8 US patents and having co-authored 15 technical papers.

Mr. Venkat Vallapaneni

Founder and CEO

He holds an industry experience of 18+ years and a graduate degree from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology. Covering all aspects of IoT product development (IoT solutions architecture, Embedded systems, IC design and Technical Management). He is passionate about harnessing a positive change in lives by creating products that seamlessly fit in our world to enhance creativity and productivity. His design approach is based on re-usable platform approaches. He has worked closely with algorithms and firmware teams to achieve low power architecture using power partitioning, hardware- software partitioning, data handling schemes across multiple cores. Holding 4 US patents, 2 publications in IEEE Journals and conference proceeding.

Mr. A.V.S.S Prasad

Chief Advisor

Mr. Prasad holds a humbling experience of 30+ years in design and development of parallel computers, microprocessors, DSP Cores, SoCs for mobiles, embedded systems. While having extreme technical knowledge he is also competent in managing large sized projects and teams. He takes pride in holding 8 US patents and having co-authored 15 technical papers.

Mr. Venkat Vallapaneni

Founder and CEO

He holds an industry experience of 18+ years and a graduate degree from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology. Covering all aspects of IoT product development (IoT solutions architecture, Embedded systems, IC design and Technical Management). He is passionate about harnessing a positive change in lives by creating products that seamlessly fit in our world to enhance creativity and productivity. His design approach is based on re-usable platform approaches. He has worked closely with algorithms and firmware teams to achieve low power architecture using power partitioning, hardware- software partitioning, data handling schemes across multiple cores. Holding 4 US patents, 2 publications in IEEE Journals and conference proceeding. At ROPODS, you will see him lead turnkey project developments while targeting IoT applications in wearables that require ultra low power architecture.

Mr. Hardik Shah

Co-founder

A visionary with deep knowledge in technology and an alumni of IITB and IIMB, Mr. Hardik offers a rich experience of more than two decades in different capacities like system architecture, product management and business development. He involved as the Vice President of international business at ATI Motors – a robotics technology startup. An angel investor, advisor and mentor in several budding startups. He passionately spends his free time trekking through the woods of South India.

Mr. A.V.S.S Prasad

Chief Advisor

Mr. Prasad holds a humbling experience of 30+ years in design and development of parallel computers, microprocessors, DSP Cores, SoCs for mobiles, embedded systems. While having extreme technical knowledge he is also competent in managing large sized projects and teams. He takes pride in holding 8 US patents and having co-authored 15 technical papers.

Mr. Venkat Vallapaneni

Founder and CEO

He holds an industry experience of 18+ years and a graduate degree from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology. Covering all aspects of IoT product development (IoT solutions architecture, Embedded systems, IC design and Technical Management). He is passionate about harnessing a positive change in lives by creating products that seamlessly fit in our world to enhance creativity and productivity. His design approach is based on re-usable platform approaches. He has worked closely with algorithms and firmware teams to achieve low power architecture using power partitioning, hardware- software partitioning, data handling schemes across multiple cores. Holding 4 US patents, 2 publications in IEEE Journals and conference proceeding.

Mr. A.V.S.S Prasad

Chief Advisor

Mr. Prasad holds a humbling experience of 30+ years in design and development of parallel computers, microprocessors, DSP Cores, SoCs for mobiles, embedded systems. While having extreme technical knowledge he is also competent in managing large sized projects and teams. He takes pride in holding 8 US patents and having co-authored 15 technical papers.