Rin Saito
Lead, AI software
The single founder, and the portfolio that proves the bench.
Ollasoftware was founded by Vikas Swami — dual CCIE, operator of 22+ ventures, no personal social media. Public source: networkershome.com/vikas-swami/.
The company · Bangalore HQ
Pioneer AI software development company in India.
Headquartered in Bangalore. Started in 2021 by engineers who were tired of agency PowerPoint and tired of in-house politics. Today we own and operate 40+ AI brands in production — and we build the same caliber of product for clients worldwide, who want what we ship for ourselves.
Founder
Vikas Swami
Founder, Ollasoftware
Dual CCIE #22239 (Routing & Switching, Security) · cleared both within 90 days, 2008–09. Cisco TAC VPN team (2004) · Wipro · HP · Mobily · Networkers Home (founded 2007).
- 45,000+
- alumni placed via Networkers Home
- 800+
- hiring partners
- ₹6–60 LPA
- salary band of placed engineers
- 4.7★
- Google rating (1,173 reviews)
- 171K
- YouTube subscribers
- 22+
- operating ventures
"Not the two CCIE labs… it is the alumni network — over 45,000 engineers placed… many from small towns in India who had no other path." — Vikas Swami
22+ operating ventures
- VPN (7)
- QuickZTNA · QuickSDWAN · 21Tunnel · StandVPN · MeshWG · +2 more
- Post-Quantum & Blockchain (6)
- QSecNiti · QSecNetwork · +4 more
- AI & SaaS
- Crawlcrawl · Aeoniti · Quick21 · 24Observe (MIT open-source) · 21Bill (₹500+ cr invoiced · 20M+ users)
- India Stack
- MailSetu · NamahOS · DNS anycast (in build)
- Education
- Networkers Home (since 2007)
The why.
We started Ollasoftware in 2021 because we wanted to build AI software — at production scale, with our own money, on our own roadmap. No investors. No quarterly slide reviews. No "please clarify the brief." Just ship.
Five years later we own 40+ AI brands across infra, security, dev tools, search, education, and consumer. Every one of them — Aeoniti, Crawlcrawl, Switchllm, Ollima, Super25.ai, 24observe and the rest — is in production, paying its own bills, run by the same senior team we'd put on your engagement.
That's the pioneer thesis: we don't pitch slides about AI software, we ship it. When clients hire us, they get the engineers who built Crawlcrawl, the strategists who launched Aeoniti, the designers who shaped Ollima — not juniors learning on someone else's dollar.
The team
Eighteen names. No avatars, on purpose.
We don't use stock photos. We don't use AI-generated portraits. If you want to know what we look like, ask us on the call.
Theo Karras
Principal engineer
Maya Iyer
Head of AEO
Dev Sharma
Head of SEO
Noor Hassan
Head of Social
Kiran Patel
Head of Performance
Marco Pellegrini
Principal engineer
Asha Devarajan
Senior engineer
Oksana Hrytsenko
Senior engineer
Arjun Menon
Lead editor
Ian Brewster
Senior writer
Yuna Park
Senior video editor
Priya Iyer
Senior strategist
Anika Devarajan
Senior strategist
Eli Tanaka
Design lead
Sam Wynter
Operations
Rae Okafor
Finance & people
Felix Otieno
Senior engineer
Where we work
Headquartered in Bangalore. Four cities. Three time zones.
Bengaluru, IN · HQ
L-149, Sector 6 · HSR Layout · Bengaluru 560102 · Karnataka, India
Mon–Sat · 10:00–18:00 IST · +91-9611027980
Global HQ. Most of eng, AI software, SEO, AEO, editorial.
Brooklyn, NY
68 Jay St · Suite 414 · Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA
M–F · 09:00–18:00 ET
North America hub. Eng, social, ops.
Lisboa, PT
R. da Bica de Duarte Belo 42 · 1200-053 Lisboa, Portugal
M–F · 09:00–18:00 WET
EU hub. Eng, perf marketing, design, finance.
Nairobi, KE
Riverside Square · Riverside Dr · Nairobi, Kenya
M–F · 09:00–18:00 EAT
Newest. Eng.
Careers · 1,200+ open roles
We hire at scale across 16 founder companies.
From frontend engineers to MCP server engineers to SOC analysts to AI product managers — we always have senior roles open in Bangalore. Three teaser roles below; the full list of 17 categories lives on the jobs page.
Press
Where we've been quoted.
- 2026.03 The Pragmatic Engineer · "Why product companies beat consultancies for AI work"
- 2025.11 a16z Future · "The senior-bench-only thesis"
- 2025.08 Sifted · "Brooklyn × Lisboa: a cross-Atlantic AI portfolio"
- 2025.04 Lenny's Newsletter · "How Olla scopes a 4-week AI sprint"
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