Practitioners · Atlanta · Remote · Worldwide engagements
The Practitioner Bench · Atlanta · Remote · Worldwide

Practitioners.
Not consultants.

The same operators who have been shipping enterprise software for two decades — now compounding it with AI. Every name on this page has been operating AI inside production engineering for years, not months.

Standard for the bench practicing · Production AI, not pilots · HIPAA · HITRUST · SOC 2
01 — The Bench

Who's actually on it.

IBOTSystems is a small team by design. Each practitioner has built and shipped enterprise software across multiple regulated domains — and has been operating AI inside production engineering since before "AI engineering" had a name.

Gopal Koratana

Founder & Chief Practitioner

Two decades inside the systems Fortune 500s actually run on — Manheim's Dealer Management System, GE rail electronics, logistics at UPS and John Deere. Founding CTO of Vendormate, the healthcare GRC platform acquired by GHX in 2014. Co-Founder & CTO of Cyrano Video, where the AI SDLC Practice ships in production every day with measurable, compounding results — the same playbook we bring to clients.

IIT Chennai · Vendormate · Cyrano Video. 30 Years Practice. Atlanta. GA. USA

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Shreesh Vakil

Strategic Engineering Partner

Three decades shipping real-time, mission-critical systems — terminal operating systems deployed at the ports of Felixstowe, Fujairah, Penang, and JNPT (Mumbai); scaling Persistent Systems' Nagpur center from $80K to $8M+ across VMware, Zimbra, and BISYS Financial Services. Worked with Gopal at Vendormate before the GHX acquisition in 2014, and a core IBOTSystems practitioner ever since. Now leads our AI-centric pivot — operationalizing Claude Code, PlayerZero, and Cowork inside the codebases other firms won't touch.

VNIT Nagpur · Practicing Engineer Since 1993 · Nagpur, India

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Sasikumar Kannaiyan

Cloud & AI Architect

Two decades architecting cloud-native enterprise applications — and the AI systems that now run inside them. A core IBOTSystems Architect for ten years, leading AWS-native re-platforming for clients whose codebases were never meant to scale at AI speed. Designs and ships the agentic stack behind the practice: RAG, TAG, and knowledge-augmented retrieval that turn production codebases into reasoning surfaces for Claude Code, PlayerZero, and Cowork. Practicing engineer first — deep-tech execution and technology governance, side by side.

Bharathiar University · Practicing Engineer Since 2003 · Coimbatore, India

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02 — The Standard

What it takes to be on this page.

01

Shipped real systems.

Specific platforms, real company names, regulated environments. Not "20 years of experience" — named systems that ran in production.

02

Operating AI today.

Every practitioner runs PlayerZero, Claude Code, Cowork, and a tailored agent toolchain inside a live engineering org — not in slide decks.

03

Keeps systems compounding.

Speed alone is easy. The bar is shipping AI-accelerated change that leaves the codebase more scalable, more secure, and more maintainable than before.

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