Prashanth Raghu (@prashanth-raghu)

Prashanth Raghu

Founder, Gonagoor Technologies

Bengaluru

Prashanth is an industry technology enthusiast who understands individual aspirations and organisational dynamics to enable a synergetic work environment, backed by experience across various industries, profiles and technical prowess to drive organisational and personal growth in a smooth and seamless manner.

He has been a part of several startups over a career spanning 12 years and also mentored quite a few at various stages.

He founded Gonagoor Technologies in September 2023 to help startups accelerate their growth and identify and resolve several issues which inevitably arise in startups, such as project development, code reviews, technical debt, seamless interviews to name a few areas. The main objective was to provide high quality, timely and affordable services to startups which could help them during critical times.

At Gonagoor technologies we are currently working with two startups to help accelerate their products and overall architecture and also working on several product areas.

Prashanth is currently helping with designing systems and processes as well as developing a few products.

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