# Vasu Maganti

> Vasu Maganti is the founder and CEO of Zelar (formerly Zelarsoft), a Google Cloud Premier Partner and cloud-native consulting firm headquartered in San Francisco. Since founding the company in 2018, he has built it into an ~180-person, $26.6M-revenue enterprise serving Fortune 500 companies, major banks, telcos, and federal governments across North America and APAC. Zelar was named Google Cloud Activation Partner of the Year - JAPAC 2025 and Google Cloud Partner All-Star in Artificial Intelligence 2024 under his leadership. Maganti co-organizes Silicon Valley's cloud-native meetup community and is a vocal advocate for Kubernetes multi-tenancy, GitOps, zero-trust security, and FinOps practices.

- **Role:** CEO & Founder at Zelar (Zelarsoft)
- **Organizations:** Zelar (Zelarsoft), BPA Technologies Inc., ICRA Sapphire Inc., Techpartner Alliance Private Limited
- **From:** Hyderabad, India
- **Nationality:** Indian-American
- **Education:** Undergraduate, Osmania University, MBA in Business Management, Sikkim Manipal University of Health, Medical and Technological Sciences
- **Known for:** Founded Zelar (Zelarsoft) and scaled it to 180+ employees and ~$26.6M annual revenue without external VC funding, Led Zelar to Google Cloud Premier Partner status - the highest tier in Google's partner program, Named Google Cloud Activation Partner of the Year - JAPAC 2025

## Career timeline

- **2014** — Joined BPA Technologies, Inc. as Vice President, overseeing global operations and business development strategy
- **2015** — Became CEO of BPA Technologies Inc. (ICRA-Moody's subsidiary); joined ICRA Sapphire Inc. as Board Member
- **2016-2018** — Continued as CEO of BPA Technologies Inc. after its acquisition by Nihilent Group; engineered 50%+ revenue increase and scaled global operations
- **2018** — Founded Zelarsoft (now Zelar) in San Francisco; built a cloud-native, DevOps-focused consultancy from the ground up
- **2023** — Joined Techpartner Alliance Private Limited as Board Member; Zelar surpassed 180 employees and $26M annual revenue
- **2024** — Zelar named Google Cloud Partner All-Star in Artificial Intelligence; launched Klusternetes and OpenOps products
- **2025** — Zelar named Google Cloud Activation Partner of the Year - JAPAC; rebranded from Zelarsoft to Zelar

## Achievements

- Founded Zelar (Zelarsoft) and scaled it to 180+ employees and ~$26.6M annual revenue without external VC funding
- Led Zelar to Google Cloud Premier Partner status - the highest tier in Google's partner program
- Named Google Cloud Activation Partner of the Year - JAPAC 2025
- Named Google Cloud Partner All-Star in Artificial Intelligence - 2024
- Achieved ISO 27001:2013 certification for Zelar's information security management
- Engineered a $5M AWS cost optimization strategy for a Fortune 500 firm over five years
- Improved product quality metrics by over 60% for a Google Ventures-backed startup
- Increased IoT startup product deployment speed by 40% with cloud-native infrastructure
- Delivered 50%+ revenue increase at BPA Technologies during tenure as CEO
- Co-organizes Silicon Valley's cloud-native meetup community featuring industry leaders from JPMorgan Chase, Chronosphere, and other top firms
- Built proprietary Kubernetes platform Klusternetes that provisions virtual K8s clusters in under 20 seconds

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — Zelar named Google Cloud Activation Partner of the Year - JAPAC 2025 at Google Cloud Next
- **2025-01** — Company rebranded from Zelarsoft to Zelar, signaling broader product ambitions
- **2024-12** — Zelarsoft published 'OPA Isn't Going Anywhere - and Neither Are We' on Medium, doubling down on Open Policy Agent expertise
- **2024-01** — Named Google Cloud Partner All-Star in Artificial Intelligence - 2024
- **2023-11** — Joined Techpartner Alliance Private Limited as Board Member

## Links

- Website: https://zelarsoft.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vasu-maganti
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/zelarsoft
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cloudnativesiliconvalley
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Zelarsoft

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Last updated: 2026-05-14