I live near the Washington DC metro area with my family. I grew up in the southern part of India, a state known as Kerala. I moved here to the United States in the late 90's. I have many interests including traveling, food tasting, cooking, etc. On the weekend, I love to ride my bike on the Washington DC bike trails.

After my education, I did not go for a job. Instead, I started a company with two of my friends. We have created a micro-financing accounting software and sold that to small financing companies as a turnkey package that included the hardware. I did not have any experience or mentors at that time. I quickly realized the need to get both, so after a year and a half stint as an entrepreneur, I started looking into getting a position with a multinational company.

I was very fortunate to work for Tata Consultancy, HCL, Capgemini & EY, Acumen Solutions, etc. I worked only in the consulting industry for a specific reason; this type of work always challenged me to do something new in every client situation and every project. I am still prepared to step out of my comfort zone and learn something new. These jobs have given me the opportunity to practice precisely that and helped me to meet and network with some of the finest people in the industry.
Starting something of my own was always at the back of my mind. I work incredibly hard. I believed, if I can work for myself in the same way and create value to the community while building a sustainable business, this would be an outstanding achievement. I was always on the lookout for spotting problems and solving them for the industry or community. Solving the problem is a tremendous task but creating a business out of it is incredibly arduous.
Noctil is my third startup venture. In the last one, I came up with a concept and created a prototype and started working on it as a side hustle while working for a busy client. Probably that was the best effort to maintain financial stability, but it was a mistake. One needs to give one hundred percent commitment. If you are not committed, then the potential client may not believe in your product or service. I tendered my resignation and took the plunge in 2017 to work on Noctil product and services, and do not regret it for a moment.

We started Noctil as a cloud transformation company that helps customers to migrate and transform their existing technology assets into a cloud platform (Platform as a Service). We help our customers to move their capital expense into the operational expense budget with scalability, agility, and huge cost savings. Now we focus on providing Software as a Service (SaaS) solution to the telecom, media and entertainment industry.
We are at an ideal place to help our customers with a unique combination of our technology transformation experience and cloud technology expertise to bring real value and cost savings.

MatchIQ is our flagship solution. It is a fully managed Data Matching Service built on Machine Learning and Cloud Technology that matches data accurately at a low cost.
In the music and movie industries, Rights Management is always a challenging task due to the data quality. Each stakeholder has their interest in the value chain, and the data stewardship is limited to their domain.  And there is no central organization or foolproof process to ensure the quality, integrity, and confidence of the data across the value chain at this point. One of our prospects had collected almost 30 million dollars worth of royalty, but the problem was that they did not know whom to pay.  There was no data to identify this with any sense of authority and confidence.
Traditionally, organizations used a rule-based system to identify Right's assets. This has a couple of drawbacks - someone needs to create this rule manually; human intervention is required to update the rules frequently to accommodate new data changes and pattern, and since it does not learn by itself, accuracy is low.
We found that pattern recognition based on machine learning can solve this problem and improve accuracy. Overall matching can be enhanced over ten to fifteen percent. It removes manual intervention and saves a lot as well.
In addition to this, MatchIQ is available as SaaS solution for a considerably low monthly subscription fee. You can learn more about it at MatchIQ.io.
We believe organizations that do not take advantage of the advanced technologies are going to be left behind and we want to help them by creating this solution.

In this side of the world, everything has already moved to the cloud in some form or fashion. In the last ten years, there was a big push to move everything to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for small and medium-size companies. This trend is going to continuing this year, and big companies have started moving their data center assets as well. Platform as a Service (PasS) has gained much momentum in the last five years with a lot of new platform services and products. It will help in democratizing modern and latest technologies. We can quickly build and deploy a solution for many complex use cases using Machine Learning, NLP, AR/VR, Speech and Audio recognition technologies, etc now.  We will see a lot of new solutions and products that utilize these technologies in the next few years.
We are in an exciting era. With 5G deployment, we would see all the network-intensive applications go into the cloud and benefit from the product and service through platform service vendors such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, and IBM.