Core Team

Lavanya Rastogi

Lavanya is the Cofounder of OSSCube and is responsible for its global business strategy and market development initiatives. He is credited with being the architect of OSSCube’s global incubation, delivery model and integrated value chain capabilities. He is a Serial entrepreneur and management thought leader with experience and successful track record spanning Product Start-ups, IT Consulting, Education Research & Development and Investment Banking. Prior to co-creating OSSCube, Lavanya was the key move in setting up the Technology Consulting Practice of SCG which went on to be scaled up as Leading IT Services company with a market foot print across 24 countries. He has been often sought out and served to the boards, committees & initiatives of leading industry bodies like Advance Computing Society, AGBA, ICCBN, NASSCOM etc and has been often invited as a keynote speaker at international conference. He has more than a dozen research publications to his credit and continues to serve on the editorial board of International Journals. Lavanya received the ‘Emerging Technology Leader Award’ (VO, 2002) and ‘Distinguished Young Entrepreneur Award’ (AGBA, 2009). He is also very passionate about nonprofit work and serves on the board of a Global Non Profit Organization, devoting significant amount of his time and talent to supporting project across USA, India, Africa & South America and leading CSR initiatives for OSSCube. A prolific reader, equally at home in designing global strategy and application architectures, Lavanya is passionate about Leadership Development across the ranks of OSSCube, and often referred to as the ‘Chief Mentor’ of OSSCube Team.

Shashin Shah

Shashin is the driving force behind the strategy, business and operations of OSSCube in UK and its extended footprint in continental Europe. He is a creative and influential leader with 30+ years of experience in delivering business-aligned technology strategies, architectures and systems across a diverse range of industries and markets. Shashin has worked in senior positions at Logica, Deloitte and Andersen and specialises in Enterprise Architecture and Open Source software for the enterprise. In 2005, Shashin moved on from his position of Director with Deloitte’s Technology Consulting practices and setup his first entrepreneurial venture ‘One Point Consulting’ and became the key mover in bringing OSSCube to UK.

Always a volunteer at heart, Shashin devotes a significant amount of time to support nonprofit organizations in adopting and leveraging technology. He holds a BTech (Hons.) degree in Computer Science.

Sonali Minocha, PMP

A Cofounder of OSSCube, Sonali is an internationally recognized Data Bases expert with 10+ years of hands on experience in complex projects and consulting engagements. Sonali is a well known MySQL Consultant, Developer & Trainer and has the distinction of being Asia’s first Woman Certified MySQL DBA and India’s first MySQL authorized instructor. Sonali’s expertise has been routinely sought out in setting up clusters, optimizing performance of large portals and delivering MySQL training to several Fortune 500 companies. She is regularly invited speaker at leading International conferences and her most recent speaking assignments have included OSSPAC, Singapore; OSI Days, India, International PHP Conference, Germany; National Open Source Conference, India. Sonali is arguably the most recognized face of OSSCube internationally.