Founder — R. Veera Raghavan

A graduate of Landmark Worldwide, Veera is committed to a beautiful world that works for everyone. Saara is his contribution to that — helping people live a life of integrity: to be their word, and to be whole and complete across every space of their life.

Why Saara

A graduate of Landmark Education Worldwide and a longtime leadership facilitator, Veera has spent years in the work of transformation — where integrity means being your word, and living whole and complete. Saara is that principle, made into something you can hold: a private, honest place to give your word and keep it.

He is also a technology leader and AI-governance authority who chose to build the product himself, founder-led — a working demonstration that privacy, honesty and responsible AI aren't a pitch, but a practice.

In brief

25+ years steering engineering, product and compliance across SaaS, healthcare and enterprise platforms — now building and shipping production AI products himself.

AI governance: ISO/IEC 42001 (AIMS) & ISO/IEC 27001 Certified Lead Auditor · PMP · ITIL v3. Multi-jurisdictional compliance (SOC 2, GDPR, India DPDP) with zero non-conformance.

Applied Agentic AI: MIT Professional Education graduate; ships deterministic, auditable AI systems end-to-end.

Innovation: holder of 5 filed patents in AI, VR and immersive storytelling.

Founder ventures

Realmaya Private Limited — Founder & Principal Architect · 2025–present

Hyderabad, India

Conceived and shipped India's honest phygital fashion marketplace — a deterministic, auditable body-fit engine that states estimates and never fabricates a fit; governance-first by design.
Built the full stack founder-led with agentic AI development (Next.js, Supabase, LiveKit, Google Cloud Run), with DPDP/GDPR alignment and a versioned legal framework.

Saara — Founder · 2025–present

Designed and built a local-first, zero-backend personal-integrity & productivity app: on-device encrypted store, OS-keystore keys, minimally-scoped OAuth, and bring-your-own-key AI running device-to-provider — privacy-by-design, with no server collecting user data.

Selected experience

Appen AI — Director, Technology · 2025–2026

Achieved SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 with zero non-conformance; pioneered AI copilots (Microsoft Copilot, Rovo) for engineering, control testing and executive reporting; Certified Lead Auditor, ISO 42001:2023.

Fractional COO & Enterprise AI Consultant · 2024–present

Designed a transparent, explainable B2C AI platform for job seekers; architected a US-GAAP financial-reporting platform with AI-assisted analysis; delivered agile SOC 2 / ISO compliance frameworks.

QuaQua Experiences — Enterprise Architect & COO · 2016–2024

Built and scaled the world's first VR-based travel platform; authored and filed 5 patents; directed M&A due diligence and metrics-driven delivery governance.

Earlier · 2009–2016

Director of IT & Business Alignment (SuVitas Healthcare / iKeva); Head of Quality & Information Security / CISO India (Anthelio Healthcare) — achieved ISO 27001, 20000 and 9001. Foundational ERP/MIS leadership across earlier roles.

Education & certifications

Applied Agentic AI for Organizational Transformation — MIT Professional Education (2026)
B-Tech, Electrical & Electronics Engineering — JNTU, Hyderabad
Certified Lead Auditor: ISO/IEC 42001 (AIMS) & ISO/IEC 27001 · PMP · ITIL v3 Foundation

Leadership & impact

Lead Trainer — Landmark Education President — Toastmasters Certified Coach — Special Olympics State & University Table Tennis

Connect on LinkedIn or write to veera@realmaya.com.