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Motivity Labs
Leadership Team

The people accountable for the work

A leadership bench with more than a century of combined experience across product engineering, telecom, banking, healthcare and cloud — hands-on with delivery, not just the org chart.

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550+

Experts across the group

5

Offices worldwide

15+

Years of innovation

50+

Active clients

Joseph Sudheer Reddy Thumma, Founder & CEO of Motivity Labs
Founder & CEO

Joseph Sudheer Reddy Thumma

Joe Thumma is a serial entrepreneur with a 25+ year track record of success. He worked at IBM Singapore, Swiss Re USA and JP Morgan Chase before starting his first venture in 2007. Today more than 1,200 people are employed across his ventures, with offices in the US, Mexico, Canada and India.

With a clear vision, he has acquired several companies across diversified industries. Under his guidance, Motivity Labs has reached major milestones over the past 15 years as a provider of innovative software services.

Joe is a hands-on technology specialist committed to lifelong learning — he takes part in code reviews and deep dives into the latest technologies. His network, technical skills and management insight bring success to every stakeholder: employees, customers and shareholders.

Meet our team

The leaders behind every engagement.

Operators and engineers who still sit in the delivery reviews. Each of them owns a part of how your engagement is staffed, run and handed over.

Venkat Yallapragada, Chief Operating Officer at Motivity Labs35+ years in industry

Venkat Yallapragada

Chief Operating Officer

Venkat, our COO since 2015, is an experienced business leader with over 35 years in the industry at companies including Tech Mahindra, Satyam, Siemens and CMC. He built and led substantial P&L in telecom, product engineering and systems integration services.

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Syed Ameeruddin, Managing Director at Motivity LabsTalent & international business

Syed Ameeruddin

Managing Director

Ameer was appointed Managing Director in January 2020, bringing a culture of leadership, excellent communication and interpersonal skills along with an exceptional talent-recruitment ability. Under his leadership the talent pool at Motivity Labs has achieved exceptional results for clients, and unprecedented growth.

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Krishna Prasad V, Chief Technology Officer at Motivity LabsCloud, data & DevSecOps

Krishna Prasad V

Chief Technology Officer

Since 2020, Krish Vyakaranam has led the technology and innovation tower at Motivity Labs. He helps customers with strategic planning and cost-effective, innovative solutions across product engineering, microservice architectures, cloud adoption, data engineering, cybersecurity, DevSecOps and artificial intelligence.

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Devendar Rao Perala, Executive Vice President at Motivity LabsDelivery leadership, 21+ years

Devendar Rao Perala

Executive Vice President

Devendar is an integral part of the delivery leadership team. His 21+ years of proven experience has helped exceed client expectations with best-in-class delivery, across banking, healthcare, retail, travel, mobile and telecom.

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Pavan Nair, VP — Strategy & Customer Success at Motivity Labs20 years in offshore business

Pavan Nair

VP — Strategy & Customer Success

Pavan oversees new business at Motivity Labs, promulgating our values across customers with a customer-value approach. He speaks their language internally and champions their needs, bridging business and technology teams.

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Jyoti Chauhan, Director, Human Resources at Motivity LabsPeople, culture & hiring

Jyoti Chauhan

Director, Human Resources

Behind the leadership

Six practices your team is assembled from.

AI & Data Science

Applied scientists and ML engineers taking models from evaluation to production and keeping them honest.

  • LLM Agents
  • MLOps
  • Evaluation

Data Engineering

Lakehouse, streaming and governance specialists who make the data trustworthy before anyone builds on it.

  • Lakehouse
  • Streaming
  • Governance

Product Engineering

Full-stack web, mobile and API engineers shipping to production on a weekly cadence.

  • Web
  • Mobile
  • APIs

Cloud & Platform

Platform engineers running landing zones, Kubernetes and FinOps discipline across AWS, Azure and GCP.

  • Kubernetes
  • IaC
  • FinOps

Quality Engineering

Automation-first QE embedded in the team, with self-healing suites that keep pace with release velocity.

  • Automation
  • Performance
  • Security

Design & Delivery

Product design, discovery facilitation and delivery leads who keep scope honest and stakeholders aligned.

  • Discovery
  • UX
  • Agile

Want to work with this team?

Whether you are hiring a delivery partner or looking for your next role, the fastest route is a conversation with the people who will actually be on the engagement.