Sachin Dabir

Founder, Director

With over 25 years of experience in the technology industry, Sachin Dabir has been passionately building solutions to address business critical challenges. He has built technology solutions for large enterprises in Telecom, Banking, Manufacturing and Government sectors. He is enthusiastic about open source solutions and brings pragmatism while leveraging the technology components. Prior to founding Ashnik he worked with open source leader Red Hat since 2001. As a head of sales and pre-sales, he led the foundation of open source business in general and Linux in particular in India.

In 2007, he moved to Singapore and set up ISV eco-system and led the IBM OEM relationship for APAC region for Red Hat. During his stints at MNC companies such as Fujitsu ICIM, Kale consultants in India, he has successfully led sales and product development teams to address technology solutions in Banking and manufacturing industries. He has been invited as a speaker in many public forums such as Linux Asia, Dataquest, NASSCOM, CNBC and others.

Sachin holds a degree in Electronics engineering, a diploma in Marketing Management from Mumbai college and certificate in marketing from prestigious Indian School of Business. His keen interest in open source software and skills in integrating technology solutions to solve business challenges led him to start Ashnik in 2009.