Blisstering Solutions

Blisstering Solutions is an open source consulting company headquartered in San Francisco Bay Area specializing in custom and white label solutions at the convergence of Web, Voice and Mobile. We deliver to our customers the kind of services and the quality at a fraction of the costs incurred by Fortune 500 companies to acquire the same. Over the years, we have developed an array cost effective solutions for various services based on open source technologies.

Bisstering Solutions was founded in 2007 in California to provide cost-effective web development solutions, with an eye on time to market and quality. We have built a multi-modal transactional and media management framework based on Drupal. This permits your customer to interact with you via web, WAP, voice, or mobile, or a combination of these modes. The permits you to expand your market reach via multiple channels without the cost and complexity of managing multiple components from multiple vendors. Click here to read more about our multi-modal capabilities.

We founded the company on the belief that there is a need in the start-up and small/medium business market segments for the kind of services that the Fortune 500 routinely acquire at great cost. We have developed over the years a number of templates or patterns for the various services and technology solutions we offer. We provide a combination of on-site, off-site and off-shore delivery strategies that best suit your situation. We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and have off-shore offices in India. If there's something you'd like to tell us, you can do so by clicking here, or you can email us by clicking here.

CEO - Sunit Gala

Sunit Gala is the founder of Open Computing Institute and the CEO of Blisstering Solutions, an open source web development company with a focus on the LAMP stack and Drupal. Most recently, he was VP of Product Development at CareSeek, a Web 2.0 start-up in the Healthcare space. Prior to that he was at Oracle responsible for Pre-sales Enablement and Solutioning for all Business Intelligence product lines in the North American Sales organization, a $100 million business. Sunit was also at SAS Institute, responsible for setting up a high-tech sales practice. He has held technical and management positions at Oracle, Sybase and UniSQL. More details about him can be found at:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/sunitgala

Sunit has published over 20 academic articles on object-relational, distributed and semantic database systems. He earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, and BE (Instrumentation) from BITS, Pilani.

COO - Gopala Krishnan (GK)

GK is a technology entrepreneur with 20 years of professional experience in running start up & early stage venture funded companies as founder/co-founder/CEO in India and China. He has raised capital from renowned global VCs 5 times in his career for these companies. He lived in China for 4 years as CEO of a venture funded mobile/wireless company. He has expertise and deep experience in Interactive Media, Interactive Marketing, Mobile/wireless services and several aspects of related technologies.

CTO - Saumil Chheda

Saumil Chheda has 10+ years experience in Technology, out of which he spent 9 years in Silicon Valley. He co-founded Blisstering Solutions to address India’s mobile and digital entertainment market. He most recently managed the Professional Services group at Apptera - a leading Voice Advertising Network. He architected and implemented key portions of Apptera’s flagship product, including the their patent pending IVR Voice Ad Player. Prior to that, he has held engineering management and product management roles at Airnex Communications and NextFocus.

Saumil holds a M.S. in Software Engineering and a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering. More details about him can be found at:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/schheda