Prakash Devulapalli with Opus Technologies is a Global Business and Technology leader with over 20 years of experience in Strategy, Consulting, Sales & Business Development with an entrepreneurial mindset.
Over the years, he has enjoyed many challenging leadership roles, including leading high-powered teams to deliver top-line and bottom-line growth, building practice and competency, driving customer satisfaction, and providing innovative solutions to the financial services industry globally.
With a global experience of working with clients from 20 different countries, Prakash brings a global perspective with an entrepreneurial mindset to business challenges.
Connect with Prakash on LinkedIn.
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Intro: Broadcasting live from Fintech South 2025 at the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia. It’s time for Atlanta Business Radio now. Here’s your host.
Lee Kantor: Lee Kantor here broadcasting live from Fintech South 2025. So excited to be talking to my next guest, Prakash Devulapalli with Opus Technologies. Welcome.
Prakash Devulapalli: Thank you.
Lee Kantor: Uh, for folks who aren’t familiar. Tell us about Opus Technologies. How are you serving folks?
Prakash Devulapalli: All right. So opus is a engineering company, software engineering company largely focused on building platforms and applications for the largely for the fintechs, banks and payment companies. Um, we specialize in building platforms which are high transaction throughput, low latency, high volume businesses. Um, that’s been our core strength of the company. We work with, uh, Companies like Mastercard, companies like Pfizer, if there’s a whole bunch of those firms.
Lee Kantor: So, um, where are y’all based?
Prakash Devulapalli: Uh, we are in Alpharetta. Uh, that’s where our delivery center is. But I live in new Jersey.
Lee Kantor: And then, um, why is it important for you to become part of the fintech south, uh, community and tag.
Prakash Devulapalli: Right. So we have been in Atlanta for a while, and, uh, coming from the payments industry. Um, Atlanta is a hub to a lot of payment companies and, uh, payment processing companies and fintechs. So we have been in this, um, Atlanta region for a while, and it’s a great opportunity to meet a lot of companies who are headquartered here.
Lee Kantor: So you primarily come to an event like this for the networking or the education. Like what? What are you hoping to get out of it for you and your team’s perspective?
Prakash Devulapalli: Both. Um, you know, there are some great sessions which helps us to understand what’s going on from a market perspective and react, um, listening to our clients, listening to your partners, etc., but also made a lot of prospect clients. Um, you know, I think, uh, good networking opportunities. So. Yeah.
Lee Kantor: So when you’re, uh, kind of strategically assessing this event, how are you like, how are you communicating with your team? Like, how do you want them to go about experiencing this event? Like, what’s kind of your way to kind of wring out the most value from attending an event like this? It seems like it would be target rich for you and your firm.
Prakash Devulapalli: Absolutely. So, uh, one of the things that, uh, you know, I have done, um, I asked my team to do when they brought this to me is to look for opportunities where we could jointly talk about an important topic that is shaping our industry from a market point perspective. So we had, uh, one of my, um, partner from, uh, a GMC Nexus. Uh, uh, we did a session this morning to talk about how DeFi, decentralized finance, and the stablecoins are evolving in the market. It’s a great information sharing session for a lot of people who are coming here at the same time. You know, we also, you know, work with the sponsors to see, um, yeah, yeah, organizers to see how, um, uh, we could get return on investment from networking opportunities and stuff like that. So, uh, we did our homework and we are convinced that this is a good place to go.
Lee Kantor: So what have you learned when it comes to technology or trends that you think are going to impact the industry in the coming years?
Prakash Devulapalli: So our industry, specifically banking, financial services and payments? Um, I think two important trends from my perspective, which we are focused on as a company. One is clearly AI. Um, you know, I think everything related to I just not the, um, you know, a genetic aspects of AI, but the whole, um, data and AI space, uh, is a, um, uh, a lot of opportunity out there. I think this is 25, 26 is going to be a year of lot of experimentation in that space. And the second and most important thing is stablecoins. Right. So I think, uh, um, we are very focused on these two, and that could be a good set of opportunities for, uh, for all of us to work on in the next 2 to 3 years.
Lee Kantor: So where is the low hanging fruit when it comes to AI? What are your recommendations for your clients or prospective clients to kind of experiment in what areas?
Prakash Devulapalli: Um, we are seeing a lot of opportunities in, uh, in optimization and driving more efficiency, um, across the, across the spectrum, whether it is, uh, just infusing AI to software development lifecycle, uh, itself, uh, that’s, that’s, uh, significantly accelerating the time it takes to build the software to production very quickly, building the products, building the solutions. I think, you know, um, that’s evolving really rapidly. The other low hanging fruit is essentially looking at some of the areas where a lot of manual intervention is involved in, where RPI could not solve the problem. I think they’re looking at AI to solve some of the problems more intelligently.
Lee Kantor: So what is kind of the problem that your prospective client is having right before they reach out and contact you at opus?
Prakash Devulapalli: Uh, it ranges it ranges from, uh, most of our clients reach out to us for, um, uh, heavy engineering work, uh, effectively when they are building a platform or enhancing the platform for a new features or new new markets that they’re launching, or they are, um, uh, you know, uh, modernizing the platforms for the cloud world or driving efficiency in their operations, a back office. So I think wherever there is a, uh, you know, transformation involved, um, that’s when we typically get called, uh, compared to a scale providers typically. Um, and one of the key differentiators why we get called is because, um, uh, Um, we focus on banking, we focus on payments. And most of our engineering talent, we call them domain native engineers, which is essentially they understand the domain. You know, the customers don’t need to tell us what is, uh, a payments transaction. Are ISO 2002 two for us to get involved and jump into the program and deliver the value. So we focus on such transformation engagements.
Lee Kantor: So if somebody wants to learn more, what is the website? What’s the best way to connect with you or somebody on the team.
Prakash Devulapalli: Well plus technologies comm and uh, we uh, we are on uh uh, we’re on LinkedIn. We’re on, uh, Twitter, uh, x now and uh, our website is Opus Global. Opus Opus technologies. Com and, uh, please reach out.
Lee Kantor: Well, thank you so much for sharing your story today, doing such important work. And we appreciate you.
Prakash Devulapalli: Thank you very much for the time.
