Recognition marks a significant milestone in Ashnik’s Application Delivery practice as enterprises accelerate AI adoption

Ashnik, an open source enterprise platform company with over 16 years of experience building and running enterprise platforms across India, Southeast Asia, and the USA, has been officially recognized as India’s first F5 Authorized Consulting Partner.

The recognition places Ashnik on the F5 global partner locator as a certified consulting partner for NGINX, the world’s most widely deployed web server and application delivery technology, and reflects the depth of Ashnik’s Application Delivery practice built over more than a decade.

A Practice Built on the Ground

Ashnik has been working with NGINX since it first introduced the technology to enterprises in India and Southeast Asia. Over the years, the practice has grown from initial deployments to full lifecycle engagements, helping enterprises consolidate fragmented NGINX installations into centrally managed, governed platforms covering load balancing, reverse proxy, API gateway, and Kubernetes ingress.

Today, Ashnik’s Application Delivery practice serves 300+ enterprises across the region, with engagements spanning consulting, implementation, support, and managed services.

Ravi Papnoi, Deputy CEO of Ashnik, commented: “For over a decade, NGINX has been at the core of the application delivery platforms we have built for enterprises across India and Southeast Asia. Being recognized as an F5 Authorized Consulting Partner is a natural progression and a stronger foundation to help enterprises govern their delivery layer as AI changes the demands on infrastructure.”

Rich Hogan, Principal, NGINX Authorized Consulting Partners, F5, said: “Ashnik is based in Mumbai, India and offers comprehensive deployment, integration, testing, and advisory services for solutions ranging from Artificial Intelligence factories to secure API Gateways leveraging their registered F5 NGINX Certified staff and deep expertise in integrating a wide array of adjacent technologies. Ashnik has what it takes to accelerate value realization from F5 NGINX One.”

The AI Infrastructure Imperative

The F5 Authorized Consulting Partner recognition comes at a time when the application delivery layer is becoming one of the most critical pieces of enterprise architecture. As organizations invest in AI, the access layer, how requests reach applications, how APIs are governed, and how AI services are exposed securely at scale, determines how production-ready that AI infrastructure actually is.

Ashnik’s Application Delivery practice is built around exactly this challenge. NGINX sits at the centre of the access layer, and Ashnik brings the expertise to architect, deploy, and govern it at enterprise scale.

A Comprehensive Enterprise Platform Partner

Beyond application delivery, Ashnik brings enterprise-wide platform expertise across observability, streaming data pipelines, and database platforms, enabling comprehensive consulting on modern enterprise architecture end to end. This breadth makes Ashnik a unique partner for enterprises looking to build and run AI-ready infrastructure across multiple technology layers.

Ashnik works with leading open source technology partners including Elastic, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and NGINX, and is backed by a full lifecycle engagement model spanning solutions, services, support, and subscriptions.

About Ashnik

Founded in 2009, Ashnik is an open source enterprise platform company operating across India, Southeast Asia, and the USA. With 300+ enterprise deployments and four core technology platforms, Application Delivery, Unified Observability, Real-Time Data Pipelines, and Database Platforms, Ashnik helps enterprises build and run the infrastructure that modern and AI-era applications demand.

For more information, visit ashnik.com/nginx-application-delivery