Technology Geek, Avid Networker, Sports Achiever, Entrepreneur | Pratap Shrotriya

A ‘tech genie’ who promises miracles using technology

Bill Gates once said, “The only companies that will succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before someone else does.” Technology companies are constantly innovating to better serve their clients. This applies to both software and hardware. While it is difficult to keep pace with these changes, technology obsolescence is necessary. Our smartphones have more computing power than the systems that sent astronauts to the moon decades ago. Without innovation and obsolescence, our devices would fit in rooms, not in pockets.

Pratap works in an industry which requires constant upgrade; software, hardware, and most important knowledge. This has not bothered Pratap much because he has been a technology geek right since his childhood days. In fact, he loves to ‘romance’ with new technologies and use them to better serve his clients. He had completed many interesting software projects right through his college years.

Pratap co-founded SplendorNet Technologies Pvt. Ltd. in 2008 along with his graduation classmate Ashish Amalnerkar. SplendorNet was not his first venture. He had forayed into the entrepreneurial world much before and had his share of failure. A hardcore sportsperson that he is, accepting defeat and getting thrown out of the game was not something that Pratap could easily accept. He made a solid comeback in the form of his new venture.

SplendorNet made a humble beginning like most other startups. They began with a team of two on a mezzanine floor of a cybercafe. Thanks to their past experiments with organization building, albeit unsuccessful, and their excellent technical skills, they could quickly get going. Within a year, they had ramped up to a team of eight and had to move to a larger office. In the next few years their business, supported by a team of 25 techies, was already thriving. While Pratap brought in his excellent technical skills to the table, Ashish who had entered his family business at an early age of 18 and had helped it flourish, brought in his solid expertise in business processes, HR, finance, and organization building.

SplendorNet began by delivering web applications and evolved into a web & mobile solutions company over a period of time. Their vast experience in eCommerce and shopping portals has been leveraged by world leaders like Adidas. Their mobile and web applications have earned a million-plus downloads. Some of their IoT (Internet of Things) applications have found end customers from the best of organizations. They have delivered value to some of the biggest universities in the US with their Artificial Intelligence (AI) based applications. SplendorNet’s video handling skills and experience has helped them deliver innovative video conferencing platforms to some of the largest automobile companies in the world. While these large clients helped them build an impressive portfolio, their innovation capability was duly tested, put to use, and honed by challenging projects delivered for umpteen smaller clients including high tech startups. SplendorNet has been a staunch proponent of the Open-Source Movement and works strictly on those technologies.

Pratap’s penchant for technology and technical expertise has percolated down into the organization and has become an integral part of their culture. Being engineering-centric has become SplendorNet’s core. While technical expertise forms one dimension of their value proposition, sharp delivery focus forms another. SplendorNet is recognised for their fast-paced delivery and their ability to offer advance & optimized solutions for client’s business problems. Unlike most of their competitors, they prefer to take up projects on a fixed price basis and deliver them on or before time. This becomes possible owing to their acute focus on rigorous planning and analysis at the early stages of a project. They have shunned the easier path involving resource augmentation. Pratap’s technical expertise and delivery skills are complemented by Ashish’s strong business acumen and people skills. Ashish is responsible for organization development.

SplendorNet takes pride in their enviable clientele. They have delivered projects to marquee clients like Adidas, UNICEF, Unilever, Mahindra & Mahindra, Tata Communications, and so on. They have also delivered work for NITI Aayog and to Maharashtra Police for their Dial-100 service. In their routine formal client surveys, reliability, transparency, and strong support commitment have emerged as the keys reasons why clients stay glued to them. In 2016, SplendorNet figured in the ’30 Best Companies to Watch’ list published by The Silicon Review.

Pratap is a highly accomplished sportsperson. He has won four gold medals and one silver, in addition to many other achievements, at the national level in water polo, diving, and swimming championships. He is also an accomplished badminton player. Pratap’s sportsman qualities of not giving up and bouncing back from adverse situations have done wonders for him.

Website : www.splendornet.com
Email : pshrotriya@splendornet.com