WoodRanch Technology Inc. is a highly innovative and dedicated product development company focused on Agile (hosted) software solutions. Our flagship Agile software product, AgileWrap, is a SaaS-based solution for Agile product life cycle management, and we use Scrum as our project management methodology.

We are steadfast in our commitment to quality and customer satisfaction and work continuously to improve our solutions and services to best meet the needs of our customers. Our solutions are developed in a very open and flexible manner so you can customize them easily to fit your specific requirements. WoodRanch Technology is all about making your life (and the life of your organization) easier.

We have many years of collective experience working in both Scrum and Agile software development environments. Our CTO, Ashish Gupta, is a certified scrum master who has successfully implemented Scrum and led Scrum teams in many small and large organizations, consistently achieving outstanding results.

While we have worked extensively with some of the best names in technology, biotechnology, banking and online media services companies, we maintain proficiency in all areas of business and can work with your organization to successfully satisfy its software development life cycle needs to drive efficiencies, higher performance and lower cost development.

WoodRanch Technology, Inc.'s (WRT) management team bring decades of experience and insight to the table. Neera Agarwal and Ashish Gupta, along with their extended global team, have the experience, insight, and leadership needed to deliver the next generation of agile software development.

Neera Agarwal, President

As a President of WRT, Neera Agarwal oversees daily operations, sets strategic product direction and directs general corporate communications. Neera is a dynamic business professional with more than 20 years of experience in high-tech - she strengthens WRT's position as a boutique technology firm that enables organizations to pursue excellence through technical innovation.

Prior to WRT, Neera specialized in transformation of complex processes, projects, and technology requirements into tangible business technology solutions. Most recently, as a product manager at VPI, she played a key strategic leadership role in the development and launch of a state-of-the-art suite of contact center performance management applications. This innovative system marked a radical departure from the conventional solutions previously available to contact centers and earned respect and recognition from top industry analysts.

Prior to VPI, she lead, designed, architected and implemented large data warehouses, business intelligence systems, and data quality projects for organizations of all sizes, to include numerous Fortune 500 leaders in biotech, health care, manufacturing, financial services, telecom, airlines, and construction industries. Neera successfully led teams of product managers, business analysts, engineers, data architects and other professionals to successful completion of technology projects for VPI, Amgen, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, IBM, Sun MicroSystems, Health Net, Tatas, and many others.

Neera Agarwal earned her Master's Degree in Computer Science with highest honors from CSU, Ohio and her Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering from IT-BHU Varanasi, India.
 

Ashish Gupta, CTO

Ashish Gupta, CTO of WoodRanch Technology, Inc., is recognized throughout the project management community not only as an expert on the subject, but as a thought leader with an original and creative approach. He is a seasoned industry veteran with hands-on experience designing and leading complex software solutions for industry leaders like Yahoo, Intuit, Netscape, Webvan and Tatas. Ashish draws on his strategic management skills and leadership ability to lead WRT to technical excellence through accelerated innovation and problem-solving creativity.

As an expert in architecture and implementation of very large scale, distributed web and data systems, Ashish is sought after as a public speaker for technology and project management user groups and industry events. Throughout his professional career of over 20 years, he has had a profound influence on some of the largest companies in the world. At Yahoo, Ashish led the architecture and design of Yahoo's YPN Web Systems and Data Mart. At Intuit, he was instrumental in creating the next generation architecture of an internet banking product. He successfully introduced and evangelized many new architectural and technical approaches at Countrywide Home Loans. Earlier in his career he designed and built a distributed, source control and release management system for a multinational bank.

Ashish is an accomplished manager and experienced, certified scrum master with a combination of engineering, operational, and management experience. He has successfully managed core engineering teams for many companies, dealing with a wide variety of tactical and strategic issues. He has been successfully leading and coaching agile teams for over a decade. Ashish Gupta earned his Master's Degree in Computer Science from CSU, Ohio and his Bachelor's Degree in Electronics Engineering from IT-BHU, Varanasi, India.