Leadership
Daffodil’s leadership team inspires our commitment to delivering outstanding results for our customers, focus on fostering innovation, building capabilities on latest tech and expanding into new markets.
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Yogesh Agarwal
Founder & CEO
Yogesh is an innovator, a technologist and the cofounder of Daffodil Software & Unthinkable Solutions. Since the inception of Daffodil Software, he has been managing all the core functions at Daffodil and has raised the organization to unparalleled heights. He is passionate about solving real-life problems through technology. He is also passionate about fair and just treatment to animals and contributes actively to the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI).
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Siddharth Pandey
President-Sales
With over 15 years of experience, Siddharth is responsible for global sales and customer engagement, He focuses on international business development and deepening customer relationships. He is a veteran with an impressive track record of achieving revenue, profits and business growth objectives in robust and dynamic environments.
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Kartik Kakar
AVP- Marketing
Leading the global marketing initiatives at Daffodil Software, Kartik is a technology enthusiast with experience in digital marketing, direct marketing and deploying content across various media platforms. A postgraduate in International Marketing from Humber College, Canada, Kartik is a technology marketing professional who has managed and built brands from Startups to Fortune 100 brands for over a decade.
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Sumiti Shukla
VP- Human Resource
Sumiti brings over 12 years of rich and diverse experience in human capital management. Throughout her career, she has held pivotal roles in renowned organizations such as American Express, Mahindra, and Hindustan Times. She plays a pivotal role in leadership development, employee engagement, and driving substantial improvements in organizational culture and performance.
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Manoj Kaushik
AVP- Software Engineering, Practice Head- JS & Mobility
With 15 years of experience and an agile practitioner with a strong yearning for learning, Manoj has demonstrated a history of working in various verticals and technologies in software services. Proven in delivering more than 100 projects to clients from varying geographic regions, Manoj also has an excellent track record of winning business by working closely with pre-sales and sales teams. He is currently heading the practice around JS stack (Angular, React and Node).
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Gaurav Sharma
Practice Head-DevOps
With over 14 years of experience in consulting for mobile and web app development, Gaurav heads the Research and Development at Daffodil. An innovative thought leader with exceptional ability to build new or revive existing products and drive transformational outcomes at a highly competitive cost and schedule. Experience in establishing CI/CD pipeline, deployment automation, and containerization. He has strong communication & team-building skills with distinguished abilities in leading and managing teams.
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Mr. KK Agarwal
Chairman
Mr KK Agarwal is the chairman and managing director of Darcl Logistics, India's foremost end to end transport and logistics companies. He also serves as the chairman and mentor for Daffodil, his verve for details, and ground level approach has been a guiding force behind the rapid growth of Daffodil Software.
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Yogesh Agarwal
Managing Director
Yogesh possess a sheer passion for coding. Aspiring to turn his passion into his profession, he started Daffodil Software back in 1999. Since then, he has been managing all the core functions at Daffodil and has raised the organization to unparalleled heights.
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Viren Rana
Independent Director
Viren is the CEO of RenovITe Technologies, alma mater Harvard Business School and California State University. He contributes through his extensive know-how and experience in strategic management and international expansion of businesses.
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Amandeep Gupta
Independent Director
Mr Amandeep is an ace professional with 30 years of rich & varied experience in formulating result oriented strategies, Business operation Management, M&A, Incubation, Building new and allied Businesses from the start up stage. He is very goal oriented and focused personality. During his vast career, he has successfully led numerous prestigious groups by encashing his leadership skills.
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Manoj Kaushik
AVP- Software Engineering & Practice Head- JS & Mobility
With 15 years of experience and an agile practitioner with a strong yearning for learning, Manoj has demonstrated a history of working in various verticals and technologies in software services. Proven in delivering more than 100 projects to clients from varying geographic regions, Manoj also has an excellent track record of winning business by working closely with pre-sales and sales teams. He is currently heading the practice around JS stack (Angular, React and Node).
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Amit Singh
Practice Head- Java & ECM
Amit holds an experience of 16 years in setting up the CoE practice and working on ECM, RPA, Enterprise Scanning, Solution Architecture and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). An alumnus of the IIM Calcutta with a specialization in Global Business Management and Information Technology, he has served in various capacities as a Project Manager, Program Manager and Architect before being entrusted with the present responsibility of heading as ECM & RPA Practice.
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Gaurav Sharma
Practice Head-DevOps & Cloud
With over 14 years of experience in consulting for mobile and web app development, Gaurav heads the Research and Development at Daffodil. An innovative thought leader with exceptional ability to build new or revive existing products and drive transformational outcomes at a highly competitive cost and schedule. Experience in establishing CI/CD pipeline, deployment automation, and containerization. He has strong communication & team-building skills with distinguished abilities in leading and managing teams.