Corporate
LiferayGurus is 100% owned by JK Caesar, with offices in the USA and India.
Management Team
Kirti 'Kay' Gera
Founder and Managing Director
Kay is a Wall Street financial services whiz with over eight years of industry experience, specialising in the mortgage and financial services domains. She worked for blue-chip companies, such as General Electric and Thomson Reuters, and with large clients like Goldman Sachs, Citibank, Mizuho, Morgan Stanley, and Deutsche Bank, before she started on her own with LiferayGurus. She is a first-time entrepreneur who is intensely passionate about turning LiferayGurus into the kind of company she always wanted to work with.
Kay handles all day-to-day operations, drives product design, and signs off on pretty much everything.
Jagan Mohan Jayaraman
Co-Founder and Director of Engineering
Jagan is a nerd with 16+ years of engineering enterprise solutions, specifically in the mobile technologies and financial services domains. Jagan has over eight years of Liferay experience working for some of the largest companies in the world in the USA, the UK, and India.
As chief architect and resident technology evangelist at LiferayGurus, Jagan is our senior Liferay guru and tech boffin, handles all delivery-related functions, and is always looking for the better mousetrap.
Work Culture
Unique
LiferayGurus is a startup with a work culture unlike anything you're used to. First off, we don't really believe in the 9-to-5 daily grind of commuting to work and back. We're happy for our people to work from home and spend more time with their families than in traffic. High-five your family instead of punching in/out of a time tracking system. We provide dedicated high-speed Internet for our people so that everyone is just a ping away on Slack.
We don't go for a dress code or any of that corporate hogwash, except if you're posted at a client site. Then you're subject to the client's dress code policy, but otherwise we couldn't care less. We try hard not to compel you to conform to arbitrary systems and processes that all the other companies love to do.
Lean and Mean
We don't have dedicated HR staff or Admin staff or Pantry staff or anything like that. We outsource everything from payroll to accounting, so that we can focus on building great products and delivering the best value for our services clients. We only do engineering and client services, because that's what we're good at.
Hack Time
Once in a while we hold an event we call Hack Time. That's when we bring together the entire team, usually to a nice resort, and work from there for a week or two. Hack Time is when we build up face-to-face contacts and work on team dynamics.