Every business
starts with a leap.
This was ours.

A secure job. A different ambition.

Nilesh Bansi Gadekar began his career at Infosys in October 2009. The work offered a stable path, but he wanted to build something of his own. A trip to Ladakh with friends gave that ambition room to grow.

In 2012, he left his job and returned to Pune. The first venture was KiranaMart, a local grocery e-commerce startup with friends Manoj and Varun. Nilesh built the website and back-office systems. When the venture ran out of money, the friends had to rethink their next step.

They turned toward services in their respective fields. For Nilesh, that meant starting a technology company.

One room. One person. The first client.

Salt began in a bedroom, with a simple website built in Java. There was no established team or office. Nilesh spent his evenings learning SEO and looking for clients. An enquiry arrived, followed by the first paying customer.

The next workspace was a shared one-bedroom apartment, furnished with computers and desks borrowed from friends and family. Early projects paid for the next steps. The first team members joined a few months later.

Building a company takes more than one person.

As the work grew, development, client calls, and project management became too much for one person to carry. Childhood friend Sujay Bhagwat had already been helping with creative work and client communication alongside his job at Syntel.

Sujay joined Salt to help with sales, operations, and UI design. With responsibilities shared and the team growing, Salt moved from the small apartment into a larger penthouse office.

A product people used. A business that didn’t last.

Alongside client work, the team built CV Ease, an online resume builder. People signed up, but the product did not generate enough revenue to sustain itself. The team eventually closed it and returned its focus to client delivery.

The experience brought lessons in interface design, user needs, and the difference between interest in a product and a sustainable business. Those lessons became part of the perspective Salt brought to subsequent client projects.

From individual projects to lasting relationships.

In February 2016, the business became Salt Web Technologies Private Limited. Custom WordPress development became an important part of its work, followed by ongoing retainers to maintain and improve clients’ websites.

In 2018, the team moved into a commercial office. The business was evolving from delivering individual websites toward supporting clients over a longer period.

The work has grown. The reason stays familiar.

Salt’s work now includes custom software, mobile applications, AI-assisted workflows, data analytics, modernization, and testing. Our engineering team in Pune works with businesses in the United States and beyond.

The project may be a customer portal, a mobile product, or a system that helps people make better decisions. The starting question remains practical: what does this business need, and what will make the software useful to the people relying on it?