Our Team

Prasanna Lakshmi

Our Chief People Officer, over a decade of experience leading change, managing the strategy and processes. Prasanna is building and retaining an exceptional team of Database and Data Science professionals at OpenSource DB.

Prasanna firmly believes that leadership is about building a team, creating a shared vision and helping people work together to deliver their individual and collective best toward that result. As a People leader, Prasanna has set the tone for this level of trust, collaboration, risk-taking and learning. She possesses comprehensive knowledge about the dynamics of people management across industries & global geographies.

Udaya Shankar

Our President, an executive with 40 years of experience leading organizations of various sizes, geographies and product. Udaya is a results driven technology leader with experience in developing and delivering innovative products and building large, highly motivated technology and consulting organizations from start-up.

Spent significant time on-the-ground at Educational Institutions and IT Services vendor locations in India in an effort to increase throughput by facilitating knowledge transfer, working thru process improvements and bridging the gap between the Management, Stakeholders and the development teams across geographies.

Hari Kiran

A Leader with no title. Hari Kiran has over 17 years of extensive experience in areas of operations and managing multiple database technologies.
A proven leader with excellent skills in building relationships, positive team dynamics, and decision-making. Hari also has strong Open Source expertise in Professional Services. He has the experience to help  Customers refine their Data strategy and drive the execution.