Ashok Nare is a hands-on technology executive and founder with over two decades of experience building digital products, scaling engineering teams, and translating business strategy into agile, user-centered solutions. As Founder & CEO of Kollabio and former CTO at Octo, he grew technology footprints from minority to majority portfolio share, launched a SaaS product and incubator, and expanded teams tenfold while maintaining a coder’s mindset. He blends enterprise and solution architecture expertise with product innovation across public and private sectors, having advised agencies like OSHA, NIH, USACE and the U.S. Census Bureau. Comfortable from C-suite strategy to shipping code, he focuses on delivering measurable business value through cloud, API-driven microservices, IoT and digital health solutions. Outside work he’s an IoT enthusiast, amateur photographer and avid golfer—small rituals that keep an operational leader grounded and curious.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Industrial & Management Systems Engineering, Master's Industrial & Management Systems Engineering at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering, B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering at Sri Venkateswara University
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