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We build the people and technology behind modern businesses.

MangoMan Technologies began in 2007 placing engineers. The requests that kept coming back were not only for people — they were for judgment about what to build, teams capable of building it, and someone willing to keep it running afterward. So we built the firm to do all of it.

Founded2007
Practices4
Operating markets4
Client retention92%
Our StoryOur ApproachLeadershipOur ValuesGlobal PresenceCareers
OUR STORY

How a staffing desk became a technology services firm.

We are deliberately not the largest firm in this market. We are structured so the person who scoped your engagement is still reachable a year into it.

2007

One desk, one discipline

Founded placing software engineers into financial services firms in Philadelphia. Three recruiters, one vertical, and a rule that we would not submit a candidate we had not spoken to.

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2012

The first project team

A client asked us to supply not five engineers but a team with a lead who would own the delivery. We said yes, hired a delivery manager, and accidentally started a services business.

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2016

Consulting practice formed

Too many engagements were beginning with a client asking what they should build. We hired our first principal consultant rather than continuing to answer that question for free.

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2019

Managed services launched

Clients kept asking who would run the systems we had built for them. Rather than hand them to a third vendor, we built an operations practice with real service levels.

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2022

Global delivery

Opened delivery and recruiting operations in Bengaluru and Toronto, enabling follow-the-sun managed services and capability-centre build-outs for clients scaling offshore.

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Today

Four practices, one accountability

Solutions, consulting, managed services and talent — structured so a client can move between them without onboarding a new vendor. That structure is the entire proposition.

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OUR APPROACH

People + Technology + Execution

Our brand philosophy, and the order we do things in. Talent without direction stalls. Direction without execution is a slide deck.

People+ Technology+ Execution Our brand philosophy, and the order we do things in. Talent without direction stalls. Direction without execution is a slide deck.
PEOPLE

We start with who, not what

Every engagement begins by understanding the team that will live with the outcome — their capacity, their skills, what they can realistically absorb. A technically elegant plan that your people cannot operate is a failed plan we simply have not billed for yet.

TECHNOLOGIES

We recommend what we would run

Because our managed-services practice frequently inherits what our consultants specify, we have an unusual incentive: over-engineering a solution creates a support burden we will be holding. That alignment shows up in the architecture.

EXECUTION

We write down what success means

Measures of success, named ownership and review cadence go into the statement of work before anyone starts. We report against them monthly, including when the numbers are uncomfortable, because the alternative is finding out at renewal.

OUR LEADERSHIP

The principals you will actually meet.

Each practice is led by a principal who is billable on client work. They are not a sales layer — if one of them scopes your engagement, they remain accountable for it.

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Ravi Venkatesan

FOUNDER & CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Founded MangoMan in 2007 after a decade running delivery for a systems integrator. Still personally sponsors the firm's largest engagements and interviews every principal consultant we hire.

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Elena Marchetti

PRINCIPAL, TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING

Former enterprise architect in capital markets. Leads our advisory practice and is the person most likely to tell a client that half their proposed programme is unnecessary.

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Daniel Okafor

PRINCIPAL, MANAGED SERVICES

Ran global infrastructure operations for a logistics network before joining. Designed our transition methodology and the service-level structure we contract against.

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Priya Shah

PRINCIPAL, DATA & AI

Data platform engineer by background, with eleven years building systems that survived their first audit. Leads data and AI delivery across all four practices.

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Marcus Kelleher

PRINCIPAL, TALENT SOLUTIONS

Twenty years in technology recruitment, the last nine building discipline-specialist desks. Responsible for the scorecard method our recruiters screen against.

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Aisha Nakamura

PRINCIPAL, CYBERSECURITY

Former SOC lead and incident responder. Runs our security practice and our own internal security programme, which she insists are held to the same standard.

OUR VALUES

Four commitments that decide what we take on.

Not posters. These are the rules we apply when a decision is commercially inconvenient, which is the only time values are worth anything.

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Tell them before it is obvious

If an engagement is going badly, the client hears it from us at the point we know, not at the monthly review. We have lost work for raising problems early. We have kept clients for a decade for the same reason.

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Recommend the smaller number

Where a cheaper or shorter engagement solves the problem, that is what we propose. Our consultants are not compensated on the size of the programme they scope, which is why this is possible to sustain.

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Never submit a person we have not spoken to

The rule the firm started with in 2007 and the one we have never relaxed at any volume. It is the reason our shortlists are three or four people rather than twenty.

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Build it so you can leave

Documentation, code ownership and exit assistance are written into every agreement. We would rather a client stays because the work is good than because extraction is expensive.

GLOBAL PRESENCE

Four markets, one delivery standard.

Follow-the-sun managed services across three delivery regions, with recruiting operations in each.

HEADQUARTERS

Philadelphia, USA

1200 Market Street, Suite 900
Philadelphia, PA 19107
+1 (800) 555-1234
Executive leadership, consulting practice, US recruiting, North American service desk.
DELIVERY CENTRE

Bengaluru, India

Prestige Tech Park, Marathahalli
Bengaluru 560103
+91 80 5555 1234
Engineering delivery, managed operations, 24/7 monitoring and security operations centre.
REGIONAL OFFICE

Toronto, Canada

150 King Street West, Suite 2000
Toronto, ON M5H 1J9
+1 (416) 555-1234
Canadian client delivery, nearshore engineering teams, regional recruiting.
CAREERS

Two ways to work with us.

We hire into our own practices, and we place technology professionals into client engagements. Both matter; they are different conversations.

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Roles inside our practices

Consultants, engineers, service-desk analysts, recruiters and delivery leads across Philadelphia, Bengaluru and Toronto. We promote from inside wherever we can and we publish the band for every role we advertise.

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CLIENT ENGAGEMENTS

Contract & permanent technology roles

Live positions with our clients across engineering, cloud, data, security and enterprise systems. You will know the rate and the client before you interview, and your resume goes nowhere without your approval.

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