MV Saravana Kumar

MV Saravana Kumar is a software engineer and the founder and CEO of Kovai.co, a multi-product SaaS company known for its products BizTalk360, Turbo360, and Document360. 

 Early life and education 
MV Saravana Kumar was born in Mettupalayam, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. In 1994, he completed his Higher Secondary Education at Metro Matriculation, Mettupalayam. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics from Ramakrishna Vidyalaya, Bharathiyar University (1994–1997), and later pursued a Master of Computer Applications at Bharathidasan University (1997–2000). 

 Career 
In 1997, Saravana Kumar began his career as a software engineer at Nuva Systems.  In June 2000, he moved to London, where he worked as a senior software consultant at Unilog (2000–2003). 

In 2003, he joined Microsoft UK as a senior BizTalk consultant, where he contributed to prototypes for the National Programme for IT, a multi-billion-pound initiative in the UK's healthcare sector.  In 2005, he won the Connected Systems Developer competition for SQL Service Broker Management Studio. 

From 2007 to 2011, he worked at Fidelity International as an enterprise architect.  He has been a Microsoft MVP since 2007. 

In 2011, Saravana founded Kovai.co.  In the same year, Saravana Kumar built and launched BizTalk360, a software product to improve administration, monitoring, and analytics for Microsoft BizTalk Server. 

In 2016, Saravana launched ServiceBus360, a cloud-based enterprise tool later rebranded as Serverless360 in 2018 and as Turbo360 in 2024, evolving into a cloud management and cost optimization platform. 

In 2018, Kovai.co expanded further with the introduction of Document360, a knowledge management platform, developed following a company-wide hackathon .

In 2019, Serverless360 and Document360 started gaining momentum in the market. In 2020, Saravana Kumar acquired Cerebrata, which was later integrated into Turbo360.  In 2024, Kovai.co acquired Floik, an AI-powered interactive demo and user guide platform, which was integrated into Document360. 

Kovai.co introduced a retention incentive for employees who joined in or before 2022, called the Together We Grow Bonus. Saravana distributed $1.62 million among approximately 140 employees, with each receiving 50% of their cost-to-company. 

 Public activities 
Kovai.co contributes to Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) annually as part of their corporate social responsibility efforts. In 2024, he initiated a program titled "Time to Pay it Forward." 

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