About

Mahabir Prasad, founder of ScalaCode

I am an engineer by training, with an MBA in IT. My career started in 2006. From then until 2011 I worked with a handful of agencies and firms, and I kept running into the same two problems.

The first was what happened after the deal closed. Clients would sign, and then the attention would quietly drop. I hated that. So I built my companies around the opposite habit: stay close after the contract, not just before it. That is why close to 90% of ScalaCode's clients come back for their next project.

The second was scalability. Too many teams build for the demo and ignore what happens when the product actually grows. I build for the version of a product that has real users, not just the one that passes the first review.

I started ScalaCode in 2012 on those two ideas. More than a decade later it has shipped over 500 projects for more than 1,300 companies. I carried the same habits into iWebServices, which helps small local businesses get online and win customers. Different market, same rules.

Away from work, I am a father to two little daughters, and a serious cricketer. I bat in the middle order, right handed, bowl medium pace, and wear number 9. Most of what keeps me interested in technology is the same thing it always was: using it to solve problems that are actually real.

On the pitch