Darshan Puttannaiah

Member of the Legislative Assembly | Karnataka State

Pandavapura, Karnataka, India

About

My expertise is at developing strong, sustainable relationships with customers to achieve global transformation highlighting Lean-Agile, DevOps and Cloud adoption as recent initiatives. Committed Lean-Agile thinker focused on continuous improvement with a high degree of metric. Committed DevOps enthusiast-focused Continuous Delivery. I enjoy putting together global teams and building high performance, high quality, scalable products. My experience includes building and managing enterprise-level software development, Middleware Engineering, Systems Architectures, DevOps Transformation, Agile & Lean Transformation. Technically skilled and fosters a constructive change culture, guides organizations through transformational programs and provides coaching in the adoption of the latest Software Delivery methods.

Experience

  • Member of the Legislative Assembly at Government of Karnataka
    May 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Founder at NIVA Digital
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Director at Puttannaiah Foundation
    May 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • 66degrees (8 yrs 10 mos)
    • Chief Technology Officer
      Jan 2022 - Apr 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

    • Founder and CEO | Qwinix Technologies
      Jul 2014 - Jan 2022 · 7 yrs 7 mos

      Started Qwinix Technologies in 2014 and built the company to be one of the leading Google Cloud Partners in the ecosystem. In 2021 Sunstone Partners acquired us and merged Qwinix Technologies with Cloubakers. We are now rebranded as 66degrees.

  • Principal Consultant at Saturn Technologies
    Sep 2014 - Jul 2021 · 6 yrs 11 mos