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.
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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.
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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
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
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