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About DHIRA

Data you can trust.Decisions you can stand behind.

DHIRA is a data and AI company for governments and enterprises. We build Akashic, the platform that makes all your data agree.

Founded as a data company
2018
National programmes live
3
Your cloud or data centre
In-country

[01]  Why we exist

Fix the data first. Then build AI you can trust.

AI is only as reliable as the data behind it. Dependable data has been our starting point since 2018.

  1. 01

    Bring the records together.

    Connect records, documents and streams from every system.

  2. 02

    Build a foundation people trust.

    Reconcile records, govern access and trace each record to its source.

  3. 03

    Put intelligence to work.

    Build AI on governed data to support the people making decisions.

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[02]  Our journey

Building since 2018. Live at national scale since 2020.

Each new capability builds on the foundation before it. The national programmes below the line show that work in production.

Ahead

AI with accountability.

Our ambition is to build connected agents on this foundation, with people in control.

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Trusted context
Ground agents in governed data, shared meaning and traceable sources.
Scoped action
Define each task, limit permissions and test the outcome.
Human authority
Keep consequential actions reviewable and traceable, with a person accountable for each one.
  1. 2018

    • DHIRA founded

      Founded on data engineering, with dependable data as the starting point.

  2. 2019

    • Akashic research

      Research and engineering begin on a platform connecting data to insight.

  3. 2020

    • First national-scale system

      Our first national-scale system goes live at the end of the year.

  4. 2022

    • Akashic launches

      Data Pipelines, Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence come together in a cloud-agnostic platform.

  5. 2023

    • National learning programme

      The first Akashic project serves a national digital learning programme.

    • Machine learning

      The Machine Learning module launches, taking the platform from analysis to prediction.

  6. 2024

    • Overseas employment programme

      The second major Akashic project serves a national overseas employment programme.

    • Artificial intelligence

      AI arrives on Akashic, building on the platform's data foundation.

  7. 2025

    • Master data

      Akashic launches the module for consistent records and identities.

    • Governance and meaning

      Data governance launches alongside knowledge and semantic layers.

  8. 2026

    • Documents

      Akashic adds unstructured data processing, bringing documents into the data journey.

    • Hybrid answers

      Hybrid answers combine structured records with unstructured information.

  9. Ahead

    • From answers to accountable action

      Preview

      Our ambition is AI that works across systems, grounded in trusted context, with clear limits and people in control.

      • Trusted context

        Ground agents in governed data, shared meaning and traceable sources.

      • Scoped action

        Define each task, limit permissions and test the outcome.

      • Human authority

        Keep consequential actions reviewable and traceable, with a person accountable for each one.

2025: two hackathon wins.

Maha Hackathon and Telangana AI Rising.

[03]  Our ambition

When public systems work as one, citizens tell their story once.

Our ambition is a shared, governed foundation for public systems in any country. The same engineering connects an enterprise’s customer records, operations and decisions.

Explore the national programmes
  • National Learning Platform187 million+ enrolments resolved
  • National Immunisation Registry2 billion+ dose records reconciled
  • Overseas Employment Registry4 million+ worker clearances reconciled
Sovereign by design
Runs in your country, in your cloud or your data centre.
Proven, then extended
Every connection starts inside a live programme.
Better with every join
Each system joined serves citizens better.

Solid: live programmes in India. Dashed: any jurisdiction.

[04]  Leadership

One team builds Akashic and answers for your system.

Data programmes often pass from a platform vendor to an integrator to a support desk. At DHIRA, the same people carry the work from the first architecture decision to production.

How we take a system into production

The usual route

  1. Platform vendor
  2. Integrator
  3. Support desk

At DHIRA

  1. First architecture decision
    • Dilip Hanumara

      Dilip Hanumara

      Founder and Chief Executive Officer

      Company direction and architecture strategy.

    • Sirish Simha

      Sirish Simha

      Head of Technology

      Platform engineering and distributed systems.

    • Rupa Sridhar

      Rupa Sridhar

      Head of Solutions

      Enterprise AI, data systems and solution design.

    • Rajiv Kumar

      Rajiv Kumar

      Head of Talent and Human Resources

      Engineering culture and team development.

    • Pratheep Menon

      Pratheep Menon

      Head of Business Development

      Strategic partnerships and enterprise relationships.

  2. In production

Built for

The person on the other side.

A learner finding a course.A worker cleared for a job abroad.Your team making a difficult decision.

The technology can be complex. The experience should be clear.

[05]  Life at DHIRA

A team of curious builders.

Different minds, shared ambition. We make complex technology useful, and help each other get better along the way.

Meet the people at DHIRA

Monica thinks about the people who will run a system long after launch. She brings care to the cloud foundations, making room for the team to build with confidence.

Srinivasa is part of DHIRA, where people across disciplines work towards a shared ambition.

Easwar is one of the people behind DHIRA's work in data, software and AI.

Shubhi starts with the person on the other side of the screen. She turns complicated journeys into clear choices, and keeps asking whether something could feel a little easier.

Yogesh is part of the team behind DHIRA's approach to making complex technology useful.

For Veman, an interesting idea is an invitation to make something. He connects data engineering with a product builder's curiosity, taking early experiments towards things people can actually use.

Nikhil is a member of the DHIRA team, alongside colleagues in engineering, design and delivery.

Pitabash is part of DHIRA, a team that brings different disciplines together around shared work.

Bhaskar enjoys following a problem through its different layers. From the data underneath to the application above, he helps the pieces make sense together and brings others into the thinking.

Gunjan brings human resources experience to the people side of DHIRA.

Parul notices the small moment when an interface stops making sense. She works through it with sketches, questions and careful detail, helping useful technology feel natural to the people using it.

Harshit develops web interfaces, bringing frontend engineering and user experience design into the same conversation.

Mayur is one of the people who make up DHIRA, a team spanning data, design and engineering.

Edgar is part of the DHIRA team, whose shared work brings people and technology together.

Yash follows a question all the way from the data model to the answer on screen. He likes giving people enough clarity to ask their next, better question.

Lekh builds Angular interfaces, connecting application logic with the experience people see on screen.

Aditya works in software engineering, contributing to the applications the DHIRA team builds.

Neha approaches software with an eye for the everyday experience. She pays attention to the awkward steps and loose ends that, once resolved, make a product feel thoughtfully put together.

Naved is comfortable moving between different parts of a product. He enjoys joining the logic behind the scenes with the experience on screen, so the whole thing feels considered.

Rakesh is part of the DHIRA team behind our work with data and software.

Alok likes to know where a number came from. He follows the trail through the data, making its meaning clearer for colleagues who need to build on it.

Swamy is one of the people behind DHIRA, where different disciplines meet around a common purpose.

Syeda is part of DHIRA's wider team, bringing our company story beyond the technology alone.

Pradeep gravitates towards the machinery behind a good product. Clear interfaces between services and code another person can understand are part of how he makes ambitious ideas practical.

Chand is a member of the DHIRA team, part of the collective effort behind our work.

Vipul turns recurring data problems into dependable routines. His work helps the team spend less time untangling yesterday's inputs and more time exploring what they can build next.

Anurag is part of DHIRA, a company built around the combined work of its people.

Krishna is drawn to the journey data takes between systems. He works through the transformations and edge cases that help information arrive where it is needed, with its meaning intact.

Kalyan works in consulting, contributing to the range of disciplines represented at DHIRA.

Jitendra looks closely at the handoffs between services. He brings a steady engineering perspective to the details that help a system hold together when real people start depending on it.

Nitin is one of the people behind DHIRA's shared work in technology and delivery.

Ria works in business development and sales, connecting DHIRA with organisations exploring their next step.

Dilip keeps the team's ambition connected to a useful question: whose problem are we solving? He brings the larger picture into technical conversations, with space for people to challenge the answer.

Sharique works in security analysis, adding a security perspective to the team's technical work.

Vikash is part of the DHIRA team, one of the people behind the work we do together.

Rupa listens for the real problem beneath the initial brief. She connects the needs of an organisation with the possibilities of data and AI, giving teams a practical place to begin.

Sandeep brings a learner's curiosity to unfamiliar problems. He likes getting a first version working, listening to what it reveals and improving it with the people around him.

Rohith is part of DHIRA, alongside the colleagues who shape our work across technology and delivery.

Jilson explores data science through statistical analysis, connecting data with the questions behind it.

Yusha works across the stack, from data workflows to the interfaces that make them usable. He enjoys taking a complicated process apart and rebuilding it around a clearer experience.

Kritanjay is part of the DHIRA team behind our work in data, software and AI.

Shruti works across manual, automated and API testing to check how software behaves.

Kali thinks about how today's decisions will feel to tomorrow's team. He connects architecture to the realities of an organisation, leaving enough clarity and flexibility for people to keep moving.

Vinay has patience for the foundations: consistent records, sensible structures and details that deserve another look. His work gives the rest of the team firmer ground to build on.

Amit helps turn an open question into a useful experiment. He connects data science with the decision it needs to support, making room for both technical rigour and honest uncertainty.

Nicy is part of DHIRA, one of the people who make our company more than its technology.

Kaushita is one of the people behind DHIRA's team, where different disciplines share the same ambition.

Sarathkumar looks for the thread that makes a whole product understandable. He helps teams connect individual screens into a journey that feels coherent from the first step to the last.

Agam is a member of the DHIRA team, part of the shared effort that brings our work together.

Rahul develops AI applications and language model automation, connecting software engineering with emerging tools.

Vishwanandan makes room for the question nobody has asked yet. He enjoys working through difficult data problems with colleagues and leaving behind an explanation that helps the next person.

Sirish brings patient reasoning to difficult engineering decisions. He helps the team understand why an approach works, so good judgement can travel further than any one person.

Dheeraj is one of the people behind DHIRA's work, alongside colleagues across the wider team.

Suraj works in AI software engineering, bringing an application development perspective to the team's AI work.

Kaim likes finding a clear path through a tangled piece of software. Small, understandable changes are the starting point, with an eye on how they add up to a better product.

Ashish helps people get precise about what they need. He turns conversations into shared understanding, connecting the language of the business with the questions an engineering team needs answered.

Rishabh is part of DHIRA, a team whose work spans data, software and the people using it.

Danish works in software engineering, contributing to the development side of DHIRA's wider team.

Muthusivabalan explores the paths a product team might overlook. He brings a user's curiosity to quality, asking what happens next and helping everyone feel more confident about the release.

Yogya is a member of the DHIRA team, part of the wider company behind our work.

Vipul thinks about what someone will do after reading a dashboard. He shapes information around that next decision, giving the important details room to be seen and understood.

Snehal is part of DHIRA, where our work draws on people from different disciplines.

Arjun develops mobile applications, bringing the team's software work onto the devices people carry.

Faris is part of the DHIRA team, contributing to the collective behind our work in technology.

Ashish makes the route from a code change to a running service easier to follow. He cares about repeatable releases, useful signals and fewer surprises for the people on call.

Satyarth is part of the DHIRA team, one of the people behind our shared work and ambition.

Kashif works in software engineering, contributing to the development work behind DHIRA's applications.

Rajiv pays attention to what people need to do their best work. From joining the team to finding their next stretch, he helps make growth a conversation people can have openly.

Subhash is a member of DHIRA's team, alongside the people behind our technology and delivery work.

Meghwin enjoys the logic behind a well-built backend. He connects services, data and business processes with an emphasis on code that stays understandable as the product grows.

Yuvraj is one of the people behind DHIRA's shared ambition to make technology useful.

Nitin brings Azure infrastructure experience to the cloud systems behind everyday work.

Venkataratnam sees the relationships between systems before drawing the boundaries. He helps teams find a shared data structure that respects the different ways people need to use it.

Aniket is part of DHIRA, one of the people who make up our team across disciplines.

Ayushi is part of DHIRA's team, where our work brings different people and disciplines together.

Pradip looks for the manual step that no longer needs to be manual. Through thoughtful automation, he helps make everyday engineering work calmer, more consistent and easier to hand over.

Ankit brings software engineering experience to the applications and services developed by the DHIRA team.

Bijal balances what a cloud system needs today with what it may need tomorrow. The aim is an architecture that makes sense to the people who will explain, extend and operate it.

Pratheep starts a relationship by understanding what matters to the other team. He connects that ambition with the right people at DHIRA and helps shape a useful next step.

Raghunandhan explores product management through user journeys, product analytics and the questions that shape a release.

Rajnish is one of the people behind DHIRA, part of the team that brings our work together.

Ravi is part of the DHIRA team, where our shared work brings people, data and technology together.

Select a person to meet the team.

What comes next

Show us where your data disagrees. Leave with a clear next step.

Bring a data problem from your systems. We will work through the records and architecture with you.

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