About

Named for a bow. Led by operators.

Our founders have run these environments, not just advised on them.

Our story

Pinaka, the bow

Pinaque takes its name from Pinaka, the bow. To us it stands for strength, focus and purposeful action.

That is how we think technology work should be done. Aim at one real problem. Know what a good result looks like before you start. Then follow through until someone else can run it.

Pinaque Technologies is a senior-led technology consulting and product company based in Pune, India. We work with clients across India and globally. Manufacturing is our lead industry, and we are open to mid-market companies in other sectors.

We are a new company. We have no client list to show you yet, and we will not pretend otherwise. What we can show is what our founders have been accountable for, and a small piece of fixed-scope work you can judge for yourself.

Why us

Four reasons, stated plainly.

Led by people who have run it, not just built it.

Before Pinaque, the founders were chief information security officer, infrastructure, product and engineering leaders at scale, including in manufacturing.

Security is built in from day one.

It is part of the design, not something added at the end.

Senior people do the work.

We take on 2–3 engagements at a time, so the people you meet are the people who deliver.

We build our own products.

So we know what it takes to ship software and keep it running.

How we work

Six steps, the same every time.

We keep our capacity small on purpose. With 2–3 engagements at a time, the people you meet are the people who deliver.

Understand
We listen to the people who run the work, and read what already exists.
Assess
We look at systems, data and risks as they are, not as the documents say.
Design
We agree what to change, in what order, and what it will take.
Deliver
Senior people do the work, in small steps you can see.
Validate
We check that what was built does what was agreed.
Hand over
Your team gets the documents, the access and the know-how to run it.

Leadership

Founders’ experience before Pinaque

This is each founder’s own operating history: what that person was accountable for in earlier roles. It is not Pinaque’s track record. Past employers are named as plain fact and do not endorse Pinaque.

Amol Ahire

Founder

Before Pinaque, Amol was accountable for: IT infrastructure and security across 35+ electronics manufacturing plants, as Group Chief Information Security Officer and head of IT infrastructure and security at Dixon Technologies.

A 200+ person engineering delivery organisation serving a global telecom operator, as a Senior Director at Amdocs.

Manufacturing IT at CEAT, and in metals and aluminium, in his earlier roles.
Experience: 23+ years across manufacturing IT, cybersecurity and infrastructure.
Current certifications: CISA, CISM, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor.
Owns at Pinaque: Security and governance.

Vidya Bhandari

Co-founder

Before Pinaque, Vidya was accountable for: Product development in telecommunications product engineering, as a Director at Amdocs, where she spent 20 years.

Leading cross-functional teams to deliver that work.
Experience: More than 22 years in IT and telecommunications product engineering.
Owns at Pinaque: Product engineering, technology delivery, AI adoption and engineering leadership.

Ruchi Dhamankar

Director

Profile: [TO CONFIRM]

Other partners

Software engineering lead: [TO CONFIRM]
DevOps and infrastructure lead: [TO CONFIRM]

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