Timeline

Megam had three phases: the Megam Systems phase, the Rio/OS phase, and the October 2018 pivot. The dates below show how the project evolved over time.

Phase 1 - Megam, Jul 2012 to Jul 2017

Jul 2012 - Megam project starts

Megam began as a project to build cloud identity for enterprise, then became Megam Systems and pivoted toward code-to-cloud. The first project was https://github.com/megamsys/deccanplato. This record treats July 2012 as the project start and March 2013 as the company-registration period.

Kishorekumar Neelamegam left a corporate job in 2012 to start it, at around 39.

Mar 2013 - Megam Systems, Chennai

Megam Systems operated from Chennai, India. The public GitHub organization still identifies the organization as Megam Systems and points to docs.megam.io.

2014 - Megam's OpenNebula architecture became public

The OpenNebula material described Megam as a code-to-cloud system across private, public, and hybrid clouds. The 2014 deck credited Varadarajan Narayanan, Kishore Kumar Neelamegam, Thomas Alrin, and Raj Thilak, and listed Java, Play, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and Akka as supported frameworks.

The same material included TOSCA, an OpenNebula Chef plugin, private cloud installation, and Cloud-in-a-Box. This is the earliest public architecture anchor for Megam.

2014 - Docker Global Hack Day #2

Docker's archived Global Hack Day #2 results listed Visual Docker by Thomas Alrin, Yeshwanth Kumar, and Rajthilak second by vote count among "Other projects receiving top votes", with 457 votes.

Dec 2014 - OpenNebulaConf Berlin

OpenNebulaConf 2014 ran in Berlin from Dec 2-4, 2014. Kishorekumar Neelamegam presented Megam Cloud Automation Platform there, and the talk remains one of the primary public artifacts for the early system.

2015 to 2017 - Vertice, Nilavu, and the hosting-provider phase

Megam's public docs described MegamVertice as a platform for virtual machines, apps, and containers. The docs named Nilavu as the console UI, the API gateway as the API layer, and Vertice as the omni scheduler.

The product targeted operators running infrastructure such as OpenNebula, OpenVZ, Docker, and Ceph, with WHMCS billing, storage, snapshots, logs, and custom application flows in the product vocabulary.

Megam had 11 named Phase 1 customer accounts: Alternative-Energies.fr, Astimp.ro, AtomDeploy.com, FlexVPC, INTERGRID, Jonathan Rack Servers, MilesWeb.com, QuadCloud, RioCorp, Simha Online, and TIC Servicios.

Megam was bootstrapped throughout. Over five to six years it ran on roughly INR 1 to 1.5 crore of the founder's own capital. Customers paid about $20 per host, with at least four hosts each, and more accounts were in the pipeline.

Three funding offers were on the table: about $150K from a Philippine investor met at the RISE conference in Hong Kong, $250K from an Indian investor, and $125K from an Australian investor. Megam bet on the Philippine offer, which came with a datacenter and a sales channel to scale, and set the other two aside. The signals were misread, and the deal never closed. The wait ran about five months.

During those five months the work went into building rather than selling: a version 2 of the platform and a Sisense-style analytics product meant to augment the offering and sell more. For a first-time founder with paying customers, the sharper move would have been to sell.

Phase 2 - Rio/OS, Jul 2017 to Oct 2018

2017 - Rio/OS begins

Rio/OS introduced a product surface around rioos, commandcenter, autorio, aran, beedi, and ottavada. Supporting repositories such as metgroup, nalperion_rust, and openio-sdk-rust are libraries, not the main product surface.

2017 to 2018 - Rio/OS engagements

Rio/OS had CogMob as an enterprise pilot and ServerNet as a pilot enterprise customer. Intergrid belonged to the Megam-era SMB pilot/customer story. DET.io was associated with Megam only: a Megam partner, not a customer and not a Rio/OS partner.

2018 - Rio Advancement

Megam Systems was acquired by Rio Advancement Inc., led by Paul Sanar. The acquisition came with a promise of seed funding to extend Rio/OS development, and that funding did not fully materialize.

Phase 3 - Pivot, Oct 2018 onward

Oct 2018 - Lendsmart / Getattune

By the end, the family's finances had stretched, and that was the trigger to move. Megam did not stop quietly: in the final stretch the founder kept pitching datacenters, face to face in India, in Hong Kong, and remotely in the US.

One of those pitches reframed Megam v2 for enterprise compliance: desktop as a service for employees, automatically triggered antivirus, and automated patching. Kishorekumar Neelamegam met AK Patel, of Motive Partners, introduced through Paul Sanar at a product demo. AK Patel liked the build and recruited him to co-found Lendsmart.

Lendsmart took on a consumer problem: closing a home in the US took more than two months. Focused on community banks, it answered the question Megam never settled early, which was who the customer is. In October 2018 the team relocated to Lendsmart / Getattune, and active Megam/Rio/OS product development ended.

Kishorekumar co-founded Getattune with AK Patel and Gem George, scaled to 10 banks, and raised a seed of about $2.25M. He later moved to e2enetworks, framed as a continuation of the Megam mission in the Indian space. The closure event was a decision and a pivot, not a slow decay.

After 2018 - Open source remains

Megam and Rio/OS were fully open source and never really closed. The code remains publicly useful as an artifact of what was built, even where individual GitHub repositories have incomplete license metadata.

2026 - Closure site

The closure site brings the Megam and Rio/OS story back into view as a concise history of what was built, what shipped, who worked on it, and why the product line ended.