Venkata Ramana Pullagoora
Founder & CEO
24+ years in IT across quality engineering, delivery leadership, and building the teams that do both. Founded VirtuesTech on the conviction that independence is the foundation of credible assurance.
Company / About
Independent by design, since 2020
VirtuesTech exists because assurance only means something when it's independent: we don't build what we test, and we don't resell what we recommend.
The story so far
Virtue Software Technologies Private Limited was incorporated in Hyderabad in January 2020 with a simple thesis: software teams need one partner who can test their releases, attack their defenses, and stand behind the results — without the conflicts that come from also building the software or reselling the tools.
Six years in, that thesis is a company of 100+ security and quality engineers — 63% holding industry certifications including CISSP, CEH, eCPPT, ISTQB, and AWS — delivering from Hyderabad with a US presence in Frisco, Texas, across 30+ enterprise engagements for 20+ clients.
Along the way we did something few firms our size attempt: we built our own platforms. VirtueThreatX for continuous exposure management, VirtueShieldX for security operations, and VirtueATLAS for quality engineering — all running in production, all used by our own engineers daily. When we describe how something works, we can show it working.
And one editorial rule governs everything we publish, this page included: no claim without evidence. The numbers here are the numbers we can prove.
- 100+security & quality engineers
- 63%hold industry certifications
- 30+enterprise engagements
- 2020founded in Hyderabad
- 2delivery hubs — Hyderabad & Frisco, TX
Leadership
Mahesh Tata
Cybersecurity Practice Lead
14+ years across offensive and defensive security — from penetration testing and red teaming to building the detection capability behind our managed SOC.
Three practices, three platforms
Quality Engineering, Cybersecurity, and Managed Teams— connected by the assurance loop: security findings feed regression packs, exploit validation proves what’s reachable, detection operationalizes every fix. Each phase runs on a platform we build and operate ourselves.
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