Practice. Play. Pray.
I build software that gives growing businesses the tools large enterprises take for granted.
Founder and CEO of Apoorva Corporation since 2001. Engineer by training, builder by choice, and a student of the piano, the mountains and the inner life.
Enterprise architecture, data and analytics, and a portfolio of purpose-built software products for small and mid-sized businesses.
Explore Practice → Life PlayClimbing Colorado's mountain passes by bicycle, long rides on two wheels, CrossFit, and time at the piano.
Explore Play → Spirit PrayReflections on work as service, and on the idea that inner growth and outer responsibility are one path.
Explore Pray →Three decades across research, enterprise IT and product building, with one thread running through it: turning complexity into something simple and dependable.
Designing systems that scale with a business instead of against it. Led architecture for utility and airline environments where uptime and data integrity are not optional.
Data warehousing, reporting and data readiness for AI. Helping organizations see their own operations clearly enough to make better decisions.
Taking a product from a customer conversation to a dependable SaaS platform: requirements, architecture, delivery and support.
Twenty-five years of running a company across the US and India. I believe loyalty to people is a long-term strategy, and that good teams outlast every technology cycle.
Each Apoorva product started with a real customer problem. Visit Apoorva.com to learn more.
Facility operations for multi-location businesses.
Payments and billing.
Deal flow management.
Revenue management for self-storage.
Policy administration for property and casualty insurance.
Customer engagement.
Short essays on technology, business and leadership. New pieces will appear here as they are written.
Why the smallest companies often need the best-engineered software, and how simplicity makes it affordable.
What I have learned building a portfolio from real customer problems instead of a grand plan.
Most organizations are not ready for AI because their data is not ready. Here is where to start.
The things that keep me balanced, and usually teach me something I bring back to work.
Colorado is the best classroom for patience I know. Most of my favorite days start at the bottom of a long climb.
The piano is where engineering meets feeling: structure, timing and practice in service of something beautiful. I also love singing Telugu and Hindi film songs with friends.
Long-distance rides on two wheels, and a CrossFit habit that keeps me honest about showing up every day.
Ride reports, favorite routes and practice notes will appear here.
Pacing, patience and the long climb: lessons from the saddle that apply in the boardroom.
Notes from riding the Iron Horse, and what changed between the first and the fourth.
Scales, patience and the humility of being a beginner again.
Reflections on the inner life, and how it shows up in ordinary work.
There is no separation between the growth of the soul and the responsibilities of daily life. The work in front of us is the practice.
For me, prayer is not only something that happens in quiet moments. It happens in the code I write, in the customers I serve, and in how I treat the people who work alongside me. Done with attention and without selfishness, ordinary labor becomes service.
I have been guided on this path by the teachings of Master E.K. since 1980. This page is where I will share what I continue to learn.
Every task, large or small, done with full attention and offered as service.
Inner unfoldment and outer responsibility move forward together.
Show up every day. Results follow their own timing.
What changes when a balance sheet and a prayer come from the same place.
Doing the work well, and letting go of what it returns.
On timing, patience and recognizing when one chapter of life gives way to the next.
My career started with mathematics: filtering noise out of signals so the meaning comes through. That habit has followed me into everything since. In software, in business and in life, the work is the same: find the signal, remove what gets in the way, and build something people can rely on.
In 2001 I founded Apoorva Corporation in Colorado with a simple belief: small and mid-sized businesses deserve enterprise-grade software at a price and complexity they can live with. Today Apoorva builds purpose-built products for payments, self-storage, insurance, facility operations, customer engagement and deal flow.
Along the way I have served as an architect for large organizations like Xcel Energy and Frontier Airlines, and I went back to school for an MBA at Columbia because the best way to stay useful is to keep learning.
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
University of Rhode Island
Enterprise-grade software for small and mid-sized businesses, built in Colorado.
Consulting engagement in enterprise architecture.
Enterprise technology for a national airline.
Back to the classroom, by choice.
SiteWare, BillWare, DealQube, MaxRev, Invento and MaxDrips, each solving one problem well.
Whether you are a business owner with a software problem, a fellow founder, a fellow seeker, or a cyclist looking for a riding partner on the Front Range, I am glad to hear from you.