The architect in the room is the one you hired.
Manizh is deliberately small and senior — led by the person who scopes, architects, and stands behind every engagement.
Dasa Ponnappan — Co-Founder & President
Twenty-five years in technology, from hands-on engineering to founding and exiting a consultancy. Dasa founded Manizh Consulting in 2018 on a single conviction: clients should own their critical technology capabilities, and the senior people who scope the work should be the ones who deliver it. He leads Manizh's architecture and delivery practice across data engineering, AI, dashboarding, and secure engineering foundations.
A path from the code to the corner office.
Newest first. Twenty-five years of building, leading, and founding — the throughline is the same: the architect stays in the room.
Manizh Consulting
Boutique data & AI consultancy: data platforms, production AI, decision dashboards, and DevSecOps foundations for regulated and premium-brand clients.
2021–2025
Co-founded a customer-experience engineering consultancy serving retail and consumer brands; served as Chief Technology Officer and led the firm through acquisition.
2020–2021
Director, Data Science Engineering.
2017–2020
Director, Digital Architecture, responsible for digital platform solution architecture.
2006–2017
Senior technology leadership delivering enterprise commerce and omnichannel platforms for major retail, pharmacy, and apparel brands: solution architecture, big-data platforms, and digital unification programs.
2000–2006
Developer to offshore delivery lead at Cognizant and SIP Technologies.
Trained in data science, grounded in engineering.
UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley School of Information — Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS).
Bharathidasan University
Bharathidasan University — B.Sc. Mathematics & Computer Science.
Languages
English · Tamil · Hindi.
Builder first, executive second.
Building AI-first capability and want the architect in the room? Write to dasa@manizh.com or connect on LinkedIn.