# DOASTRA Technologies

> DOASTRA is a Fremont-headquartered technology consulting and product engineering firm, formerly known as TALKD, that combines discovery workshops, experience design, data and AI engineering, and cross-functional delivery pods for enterprise clients. Its published case studies span payments, life sciences, manufacturing and energy retail.

- **Founded:** 2011
- **Headquarters:** Fremont, United States
- **Founders:** Pranali Vichare (Founder and CEO), Shashi Sudhanshu (Founder and Chief Mentor)
- **Products:** Discovery & Innovation, Product Engineering, Data Engineering, AI Engineering, Experience Innovation
- **Notable:** Published a 14-week plasma-donor project reporting a 55% reduction in no-shows and 40% higher donor retention after three months., Published a 24-week Mastercard payment experience engagement., Operates across the United States, India, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates.

## Products & services

- **Discovery & Innovation** — Design-thinking workshops, opportunity mapping, AI use-case discovery and transformation roadmaps.
- **Product Engineering** — Web and mobile product builds, SaaS platforms, cloud-native systems and legacy platform modernization.
- **Data Engineering** — Data platforms, pipelines, governance and AI-ready foundations.
- **AI Engineering** — AI readiness, copilots, agents, generative AI systems and enterprise AI platforms.
- **Experience Innovation** — Customer, employee and digital experience strategy, UX and service design.
- **Engineering PODs & GCC** — Cross-functional delivery teams and global capability center enablement.
- **ASTRA framework** — A discovery-to-delivery method: Analyze, Showcase, Team-up, Rapidly Prototype and Augment.

## Achievements

- Published a 14-week plasma-donor project reporting a 55% reduction in no-shows and 40% higher donor retention after three months.
- Published a 24-week Mastercard payment experience engagement.
- Operates across the United States, India, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — LinkedIn described cross-functional engineering pods that combine AI, data, product, UX, DevOps and QA and announced hiring in Dubai.
- **2026-08** — LinkedIn described a push to take enterprise AI from pilots into production workflows.
- **2026-07** — A hiring post in Pune described roles spanning design-thinking workshops, research, proposals and client work.

## Links

- Website: https://doastra.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/doastra/

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Last updated: 2026-09-29