Daniel Everist is an entrepreneur who founded Sprouter his freshman year in his dorm room at the age of 18 while attending the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. With all different kinds of social media being used in college to meet new friends, Sprouter was a perfect app idea to peruse. Sprouter is the brainchild of Everist from his first few days of being on a college campus. From a young age, Everist was thinking of different ways to build businesses, from lemonade stands, to a successful landscaping company he started in high school when he was 15. Everist comes from a family of entrepreneurs and out of the box thinkers, with very successful construction companies on both sides on his family. Everist owns the majority of the company and is running Sprouter as its CEO, while continuing his Entrepreneurship Degree at the University of St. Thomas.

Manoj Patil came aboard Sprouter in April of 2018 as the Director of Operations. His initial responsibilities included managing day-today operations and also helping the team in feature development. As his involvement increased, Manoj was promoted to the Chief Operating Officer in November 2017. He was also responsible for building the offsite team in India and managing the India operations. He works closely with the CEO of the company in regards to budget and marketing. Before he joined Sprouter, Manoj was a member of the chemistry department at Western Iowa Tech Community College since 2002 and also owns a tutoring company called New Horizon Tutoring since 2008 in Dakota Dunes, SD. This is where Manoj and Daniel met. Daniel was a student at New Horizon Tutoring. The student-teacher relation quickly changed to student-mentor relation. Fast forward, Manoj and Daniel are business partners in Sprouter!

Goutham Shankar joined Team Sprouter as Chief Technology Officer in Spring 2018. He brings a wealth of experience having worked with some of the biggest names in the IT business, across the globe. In the past, Goutham has donned many hats at Oracle India, Tata Consultancy Services and KPI Partners, servicing clients including the Landmark Group, Dubai, Lifestyle India PL, Netgear, Mc Donald’s and more. To Sprouter, he brings his ability to create customer delight with over a decades worth of domain expertise in the retail business and analytics. Here, he is responsible for the big picture. Goutham is fine-tuning Sprouter’s technological vision and strategy, so we use tech in the most efficient, profitable and secure way possible. He is also incharge of Technical Production and Business Development, so we make our product more robust and user friendly, every day. In his free time, Goutham is busy breaking geek stereotypes. He has been a passionate wildlife photographer for ten years now. He is a keen traveller and enjoys observing the world through his lens. He runs an independent rental house for speciality photo, video and film equipment and a post-production studio in his hometown of Bangalore, India.

Gururaj has about 17 years of industry experience in Application Specific Signal Processor /Software Architecture for wireless communication domain products. He has been driving force behind many startups and helping them from concept to product phases. He holds 10 US/Europe patents in the domain of Software defend Radio Platforms, CPU Architectures, Signal Processing and AI fields.

Salman Riyaz came aboard Sprouter in April 2018. Currently serves as the Team Lead in Sprouter. A Computer Science graduate, Salman has over five years of experience and has worked extensively as a web developer. Salman exemplifies great leadership qualities, and in his free time, enjoys watching the latest Hollywood movies and riding fancy bikes.

Neelam currently is the Senior iOS developer in Sprouter. She brings a wealth of experience in a variety of platforms, programming languages, data stores, and development tools. Graduated from the Alpha college of engineering with a degree in Information Technology (IT), Neelam has an extensive knowledge of iOS framework and support libraries along with many third party libraries. She has developed seven apps so far. During her free time she enjoys badminton and travelling.

Fakeeraddi (aka Feddy) completed his Master of Computer application in 2014, Currently Feddy is working as a Senior Android developer at Sprouter. Feddy brings a wealth of experience as Android developer and worked on different architecture design like mvp, mvc, mvvm . Feddy is an expert on Android framework and support libraries along with many third party libraries.

Sindhu has over three years of experience in IT Industry. She is currently working as a Senior Web Developer in Sprouter. Her expertise lies in the areas of Web Application Development and Designing. Her strong skill sets are on PHP frameworks like Yii, Laravel, Wordpress, Bootstrap, Responsive web designs and designing tools like Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. During her free time she enjoys playing indoor games and reading.

Aarti has over seven years of experience in the IT industry. She started off her career as a web developer and later made a switch to Magento development. Her expertise lies in the areas of iOS, Magento, Swift4, objective c, designing mobile architecture and augmented reality. In her free time Aarti enjoys dancing and writing blogs.

Divya joined Sprouter in September 2018. Divya is passionate about Android development and is currently working on the Android version of the Sprouter app. She graduated in Electronics & Communication Engineering. In her free time, Divya likes experimenting new dishes and involves herself in physical fitness activities.

Kushma is the current Testing Engineer at Sprouter. She completed her Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University in 2016. She is also certified from Qspiders Institute with the skills of Manual Testing, Java, Selenium and SQL. Her career started at Faststream Technologies in the field of Software Testing.