Sandeep Chawda

Founder & CEO


Shashank Deshpande

Founder & President


Hemant Joshi

Head – Strategy and Business Development


Shirish Deodhar

Board Advisor


Madhukar Bhatia

Board Advisor

Ajay Mulkalwar

Director of Engineering


Anand Hariharan

Director of Engineering


Ankur Richhariya

Director of User Experience


Ankur Richhariya

Director of User Experience


Shilpa Kadam

Creative Director


Our executive and senior management teams have significant experience structuring and operating many different business models including Time and Material, Build Operate Transfer, and what we call our "Open Sourcing" model.

"Open Sourcing" Model
Our unique "Open Sourcing" business model gives customers "virtual" team ownership without associated legal encumbrance. Under this model our customers have total visibility on all hires, their compensation, overheads, infrastructure costs and the margin charged by Clarice Technologies for services rendered. Customers can also choose to provide additional benefits such as bonuses and stock options to star performers. The key focus here is to provide the best talent fit for the job assignment.   Build Operate Transfer (BOT)
Clarice Technologies also offers the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) option. We build the offshore development team, take care of all the operations for pre-determined duration, and later at the customer's convenience spin-it off as a wholly owned subsidiary of their company. This ensures that your investment in creating the team continues to be leveraged when your business evolves enough to assimilate the team and grow the whole organization.   Time and Material (T&M)
This is a fairly standard model where Clarice Technologies pulls together a dedicated team for the customer. Billing is done on a monthly basis and depends on number of people assigned to the team. In some scenarios, the scope of work may mean it makes more sense for us to partner under a fixed-bid alternative or a milestone based turnkey delivery model, rather than T&M. In some unique cases, we may also engage with startups on an equity + cash reimbursement basis. This opens doors for start-ups to use best in class User Centered Design and Development services and still have an extended startup runway by conserving cash. All in all, our experience is that the "Open Sourcing" model, along with a "Build Operate Transfer" option helps customers establish strong trust based relationships with us, that are so very important for offshore product development engagements to succeed.


We take pride in or ability to create an environment conducive to building world-class software products. This reflects in our operations including our infrastructure, communication philosophy and product development best practices. Some key highlights of these different operational elements are:

High-quality infrastructure
  • Our facilities provide 24x7 manned security and gated access. We can also set up independent facilities for clients based on size, projected growth and contract terms.
  • Our networks comprise of separate VLANs for all customers. Additionally, firewalls between the network segments and Internet channel ensures maximum security for data and information exchanged.
  • Dedicated links to each client ensures committed bandwidth and security. We also provide customized connectivity options including Site to Site VPN, point-to-point IPLC (International Private Leased Circuit) and dedicated bandwidth.
  Trust-inspiring, open Communications
  • This philosophy includes no transfer of people or key resources without client's consent
  • Facilitate open cross-border team communication on all channels including email, audio/video conf-calls, and IM
  • Use of project collaboration tools including Basecamp, blogs, wikis, newsgroups, and client's own portals
  • Operational transparency at the team level to ensure everyone knows everyone and who is working on what
  • Clear definitions, reviews and fully visible monitoring of project scope, schedule, checkpoints, risks and dependencies
  • Ensuring frequent status checks through daily team standup meetings, scrum meetings, weekly status updates and monthly operations reviews
  Product development best practices
  • Our ODC (Offshore Development Center) Handbook describes roles and responsibilities and contains PDLC processes and templates
  • We promote total visibility on team intranets/collaboration tools including status reports, milestone tracking, open issue lists, risk & mitigation plans, and project documentation
  • Our metric based performance tracking includes parameters such as schedule variance, effort variance, review efficiency, defect density, defect validity ratio, % automation etc.
  • Regular project reviews including weekly project status meetings, monthly management reviews of overall project execution and quarterly all-hands-meetings to share the product roadmap, gather feedback and discuss future plans


Clarice Technologies is fiercely committed to safeguarding Intellectual Property of clients. Our business depends on it. We make IP protection an implicit and integral part of all our service offerings through a three-pronged approach including Contractual safeguards, Culture building and Controls and Practices.

1  Contractual safeguards
 Our first and foremost approach is putting in place contractual safeguards. Some of the key aspects are:
  • Clarice executes Non-Disclosure Agreements with customers and our employees
  • Optionally, customer-employee NDAs can also be executed
  • Clarice issues an explicit undertaking that we will not reverse engineer any of the customer's products
  • We ensure protection for orderly and scheduled return to the customer of all intellectual property including transfer of rights
  • Terms also cover other important issues such as non-compete, third party IP, safe-keep of equipment, definition of work premises etc.

  2  Culture building
 Our value system, at Clarice, walks hand-in-hand with contracts. Our internal culture-building ensures every individual is aware of and respects the IP rights of customers. Our efforts include:
  • An introductory course on IP rights as part of employee induction program
  • Periodic awareness programs and trainings that educate employees on IP issues
  • An articulated IP policy which describes issues and rules for IP protection to every employee

  3  Controls and Practices
 In addition, we employ clearly defined controls and safeguards which go a long way towards IP protection.
  • Access control and physical isolation that logistically segregates different product teams. Depending on client requirements, we can also arrange for physically isolated and secure spaces.
  • Source / code security that protects source code, designs and other documents through our version control systems access to which is secured.
  • Back-up policies to ensure code and document loss protection and disasters-recovery.
  • Restricted and isolated networks including safe and secure network connections for remote logins, cross-facility communications and Clarice-customer connectivity.