Elan Thangamani is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with 11 years of focused experience in cloud-native development, solution architecture, and product management, currently leading Virtualan Software as CEO. Based in Chicago, he has a strong track record of guiding technical teams and delivery across Fortune-scale clients through roles at Walgreens, Cognizant, and Maven Wave Partners. He blends hands-on engineering instincts with strategic leadership—moving between technical lead, scrum master, and managerial positions to bridge delivery, architecture, and business outcomes. As a founder who remains actively engaged in development, he pairs product vision with practical implementation experience rather than trading off one for the other. His career path shows a steady progression from software engineer to executive, reflecting deep operational knowledge of large enterprise systems and API design. He is also an engaged community member through ITServe Alliance, signaling a commitment to industry collaboration beyond his company.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Bachelor of Engineering (BE) at University of Madras
12th Computer Science, 12th Computer Science at St. Josephs Higher Secondary School, Manjakuppam, Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, India
Govt. Higher Secondary School, Thiyagadurgam, Tamil Nadu, India
Service virtualization is the simulation of the behavior of software components that are unavailable or otherwise restricted during the preproduction stage of the software development lifecycle.
Contributions:83 PRs, 167 pushes, 146 branches in 4 years 6 months
Cucumber BDD style No Code/Low Code/Script Less API Test automation framework demo application. As a tester, they can populate the Excel spread sheet and can run the test without writing any code. or As a user, they can export the postman collection and can run the test without any coding.
Contributions:66 commits, 18 PRs, 78 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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Elan Thangamani - CEO President Founder at ITServe Alliance