About Us


S3 was founded by a team of pioneers with deep expertise in RFID, mission-critical enterprise software, and the Microsoft platform. They have a proven track record with deep industry experience including Microsoft, Computer Associates, and Amazon.com. They are passionate about the real promise of RFID to change the way businesses understand the physical world, and the enormous business potential of bringing solutions that deliver on this promise. This is just the beginning of the journey.

Ram Venkatesh

Founder | CEO

Venkatesh has extensive experience in the software industry, and has been the technical leader for a broad spectrum of enterprise software products. Prior to starting S3Edge, Venkatesh was the Software Architect of Microsoft BizTalk RFID. While at Microsoft, Venkatesh worked on a number of innovations around database technologies and the integration of the .NET framework into SQL Server, which yielded more than thirty patent applications. His work experience includes senior technical roles at GemStone, Webridge, and Amazon.com, where he was responsible for the inventory planning and forecasting systems.
Venkatesh is a metallurgical engineer from the Regional Engineering College Trichy, India, with masters degrees in Materials Science and Computer Science from the Oregon Graduate Institute. A closet Smalltalk programmer, in his spare time he likes to travel around India and the world.


Abhishek Agarwal

Founder | COO

The operational head of S3, Abhishek brings deep Microsoft server expertise to the management team. Based out of the India Development Center for the last eight years, he has significant "ship-it" experience with global development, developing complex products across geographies. Most recently, he was the principal development manager for Microsoft BizTalk RFID, one of the first end-to-end incubations out of India for Microsoft. Some of the other products that he helped deliver include WSRM, the Windows Server Resource Manager, the Microsoft Operations Manager, and multiple versions of MSN Messenger. A hard-core server guy, he is passionate about building scalable solutions.
Abhishek has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from IIT Bombay and a master’s degree in computer science from Johns Hopkins University, Maryland.  He enjoys sports during his free time.


Ravi Vankamamidi

Founder | Chief Solutions Officer (CSO)

Ravi's expertise is in taking platforms and products to end customers and helping them realize the end to end solution. A seasoned veteran of the software product development process in various capacities for the last 13 years, his professional experience includes stints at CA (Computer Associates), Metavante, and Cyberbills, a financial services startup focused on online bill management solutions for large banking customers.
Before joining S3Edge, Ravi was heading the Small & Medium business unit in India for CA. Ravi has a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from JNTU, Hyderabad, with a Masters in Computer Science from Iowa State University. In his spare time, Ravi likes to read fiction books and travel around the world.