# Zelar

> Zelar (ZelarSoft) is a cloud-native engineering and consulting firm that helps banks, telcos, oil & gas, and government teams adopt Kubernetes, DevOps, and AI without the usual pain. Founded in 2018 and led by CEO Vasu Maganti, the company pairs hands-on services - cloud migration, SRE, security, and data engineering - with its own platforms: Klusternetes for self-service Kubernetes multi-tenancy, OpenOps for production-ready GKE stacks, and Cokpit for agentic AI DevOps. A Google Cloud Premier Partner with offices across the US, Canada, India, and the UAE, Zelar bets that most teams want cloud-native outcomes, not cloud-native homework.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Vasu Maganti (CEO & Founder), Srini Maganti (Co-Founder & Executive Vice President)
- **Team size:** Approximately 180-230 employees
- **Products:** Klusternetes, OpenOps, Cokpit, Cloud-native & Kubernetes consulting, DevOps & SRE as a Service
- **Notable:** Google Cloud Activation Partner of the Year - JAPAC 2025 (company/third-party reported), Google Cloud Partner All-Star in Artificial Intelligence - 2024 (company reported), Google Cloud Premier Partner with Infrastructure Services specialization

## Products & services

- **Klusternetes** — A Kubernetes self-service and multi-tenancy platform that provisions virtual clusters in under 20 seconds, with secure tenant isolation, enterprise access control, and automated cost optimization.
- **OpenOps** — A production-ready Kubernetes platform built on GKE that bundles vetted open-source tooling for deployment, security, observability, logging, and backup; claims to cut Kubernetes adoption time by 70% and is 'secure by default.'
- **Cokpit** — An agentic AI platform for DevOps - autonomous agents that provision infrastructure, build pipelines, resolve incidents, and generate/validate IaC (Terraform, Helm, Docker) across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and GitHub.
- **Cloud-native & Kubernetes consulting** — Architecture, migration, and operations for Kubernetes, microservices, service mesh, and GitOps workflows.
- **DevOps & SRE as a Service** — Managed DevOps, site reliability engineering, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud operations to speed releases and reduce toil.
- **Cloud migration & modernization** — GKE, Cloud Run, GCVE lift-and-shift, SAP and S/4HANA on Google Cloud, and infrastructure-as-code modernization.
- **Data engineering & analytics** — BigQuery, Dataflow, and Looker pipelines for analytics and data integration.
- **Generative AI & ML** — Vertex AI, Gemini, and AutoML solutions including chatbots, predictive models, and custom GenAI applications.
- **Cybersecurity & managed SOC** — Security consulting, cloud security posture management, threat detection, and Open Policy Agent / Styra authorization.

## Achievements

- Google Cloud Activation Partner of the Year - JAPAC 2025 (company/third-party reported)
- Google Cloud Partner All-Star in Artificial Intelligence - 2024 (company reported)
- Google Cloud Premier Partner with Infrastructure Services specialization
- ISO 27001:2013 certification
- Built three proprietary platforms (Klusternetes, OpenOps, Cokpit) while remaining bootstrapped

## Latest updates

- **2024** — Recognized as a Google Cloud Partner All-Star in Artificial Intelligence.
- **2025** — Named Google Cloud Activation Partner of the Year for JAPAC (regional/program recognition).
- **2025** — Launched Cokpit, an agentic AI platform for DevOps, and leaned into the 'Engineering the Future of Business with AI and Cloud' positioning under the Zelar brand.
- **2026** — Headcount reported around 227 (Tracxn, April 2026) as the firm continued its AI/GenAI expansion.

## Links

- Website: https://zelarsoft.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zelarsoft
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/zelarsoft
- GitHub: https://github.com/zelarhq
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqv-MtkvWa50fCfOK4solmA/featured
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zelarhq/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Zelarsoft

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Last updated: 2026-06-11