Polarizer

What we do

At Polarizer Technologies, we work alongside enterprises and high-growth startups to turn ambitious technology strategies into real, measurable outcomes. Backed by decades of hands-on experience with Agile, Lean, and XP, our team brings clarity, momentum, and accountability to every engagement.

Strategic Transformation

From modernizing legacy systems to enabling responsible AI adoption, we shape and execute transformation roadmaps grounded in real-world constraints. Every step is driven by context, outcomes, and a commitment to sustainable change—not ritual.

Embedded Acceleration

We embed within your teams, take ownership of delivery, and help raise the bar across engineering execution. With skin in the game, we instill delivery discipline, establish governance structures, and leave behind teams that are self-sustaining.

Advisory

Acting as thought partners to technology leaders, we bring practical insight into architecture, AI readiness, organizational design, hiring, and governance. Our guidance is grounded in experience and tailored to your goals.

About Us

At Polarizer Technologies, we believe that each challenge requires a unique team that is tailor-made for that specific scenario. We maintain a dynamic setup where we bring together the most suitable people for the job at hand, ensuring that every engagement gets the right expertise and experience.

Based in Bengaluru, India, we're a team of seasoned professionals who have spent decades working with Agile, Lean, and Extreme Programming principles. We believe in skin-in-the-game coaching and prefer keeping jargon and rituals to a minimum. Our approach is grounded in real-world experience, practical solutions, and a commitment to delivering measurable outcomes.

Whether it's building bleeding-edge applications that stay relevant longer or transforming legacy systems into contemporary software, we assemble the right team for your specific needs. We work alongside your organization, taking ownership of delivery while leaving behind teams that are self-sustaining.

Services

At Polarizer Technologies, we offer tailored solutions to help you achieve clarity, agility, and excellence in your technology transformation journey. From AI adoption to platform engineering, our services are designed to align your vision with execution, drive consistency, and empower your teams. Let's work together to solve complex challenges and unlock new possibilities.

Technology Assessments

Comprehensive technology due diligence and assessment services for companies seeking funding, investors evaluating potential investments, companies looking to acquire other companies, and other strategic technology evaluation needs. We provide detailed reports with actionable insights, risk assessments, and strategic recommendations to support informed decision-making.

Platform Engineering

We design technology interventions that foster collaborative environments, building stable foundations that enable teams to innovate and scale. Rather than imposing platforms, we work alongside your organization to create infrastructure that supports your people and processes, ensuring technology serves your teams rather than dictating how they work.

Developer Experience

Ground-up assessment of developer workflows to identify friction points. We introduce changes in small, achievable steps and help standardize them through automated governance, all aligned with your productivity goals.

Performance Engineering

Optimize system performance, scalability, and reliability through comprehensive performance engineering practices. We work with your teams to identify bottlenecks, implement performance monitoring, and establish engineering practices that ensure your systems can scale with your business growth.

Legacy System Modernization

We approach legacy modernization as an opportunity to incrementally improve the parts that matter most, without having to completely stop the world. Our pragmatic approach to technical debt focuses on strategic improvements that deliver immediate business value while building a sustainable foundation for future growth.

Product-Tech Alignment

We facilitate ongoing dialog between product and tech teams, moving beyond static PRDs to create a continuous conversation that enables business agility. Through inception and discovery exercises, we establish working relationships that enable data-driven incremental development, eliminating the traditional "throw over the wall" mentality.

AI Adoption & Rollout

Strategic guidance and implementation support for AI adoption across your organization. From initial assessment to full-scale rollout, we help you navigate the complexities of AI integration while ensuring responsible deployment.

Coaching and Training

Empower your team with tailored tech talks, masterclasses, and multi-day workshops. Contact us for available topics and bespoke training based on your context and specific needs.

Conference Talks

Our team regularly speaks at technology conferences and industry events, sharing insights on legacy system modernization, application architecture, and building high-performing engineering teams. These talks reflect our hands-on experience and practical approach to technology transformation.

API Design First in Practise – An Experience Report

Platform Summit 2024

A talk given by Hari Krishnan from Specmatic at the 2024 Platform Summit in Stockholm, Sweden. API Design First requires that all stakeholders adhere to the spec that has been agreed. Come join me in this talk where I share our experience helping team instantly convert API specs into executable contracts to help them independently develop and confidently deploy their components...

Turn Your OpenAPI Specifications into Executable Contracts — The Gory Details - Hari Krishnan

API Specifications Conference 2022

Today, with the explosion of microservices and a plethora of protocols, ensuring in an automated manner that the API implementations actually adhere to their contracts is almost impossible. And on the other side, the consumers of these APIs have to hand-code the API stubs (poor man's service virtualization)...

Kafka and JMS Mocking with AsyncAPI using Specmatic - Hari Krishnan

AsyncAPI Conference on Tour

AsyncAPI allows us to articulate communication channels between services clearly. What if I told you that this AsyncAPI specification is all it takes for us to quickly spin up mock topics and queues to test our services in isolation? That is exactly what Specmatic is able to achieve by leveraging AsyncAPI specifications to give us early feedback on our local machines and in our CI pipelines...

Tales from the Real World Shift Left your Performance Tests

Cloud with Chris

Perf Testing has traditionally been a higher environment activity. This leads to issues such as performance issues being identified late in the cycle, high MTTR for such issues, unplanned work, etc. However applying "Shift Left" to Performance Testing is a hard problem to solve. In this episode, Chris is joined by HariKrishnan as they talk through Hari's experience in the hurdles encountered running perf tests on local machines / lower environments...

Shift Left your Performance Testing | Hari Krishnan | Conf42 SRE 2021

Conf42 SRE 2021

Hari Krishnan - CEO @ Polarizer Technologies. Does your team have to deal with performance issues late in their dev cycle? Does this lead to a lot of unplanned work in your sprints? What if I told you, that your team can validate performance-related hypotheses right within your sprints and on their local machines? Attend this talk to know more...

API Design Anti-patterns: How to identify & avoid them by Hari Krishnan #AgileIndia 2025

Agile India 2025

We all want to build great APIs—but what exactly makes an API great? Is being RESTful enough? Is it always necessary to achieve Level 3 of the Richardson Maturity Model? What about principles like the Robustness Principle (Postel’s Law) or Hyrum’s Law, which expose the deeper challenges of designing APIs that are both resilient and predictable? How do these principles align with modern practices like the API Design First approach...

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