Built on three decades of engineering across industries.
Keel Stone Systems is led by Dinesh Narayana, a solution architect and principal engineer whose career spans enterprise platforms, industrial automation, automotive and embedded systems.
Dinesh Narayana
- Role
- Founder and principal consultant
- Experience
- 30+ years in technology, across enterprise platforms, industrial automation, automotive and embedded systems
- Networks
- Hands-on with CAN FD, CAN XL and EtherCAT
- Education
- Bachelor of Engineering, University of Mysore
- Based in
- Bengaluru, working with teams in India and abroad
Dinesh has worked in technology since graduating in engineering in 1993. His work has covered enterprise platforms, industrial automation, automotive and embedded systems, as an architect, engineer and engineering manager.
He has advised companies independently on engineering and management since 2022, including a period as senior technology manager for embedded systems solutions. In that role he worked with industrial EtherCAT software and presented at the EtherCAT Technology Group conference in Malaysia in May 2026.
Keel Stone Systems brings this work under one name: technical leadership for companies that need it, an experienced outside view on software and IT, and hands-on networking expertise for the vehicle and machine builders of Bengaluru.
Why “Keel Stone”
A keel is the spine a ship is built on. A keystone is the stone at the top of an arch that locks the others in place. Neither is the part people admire, but without them nothing stands. Good engineering decisions are the same: unseen when they are right, and the first thing anyone asks about when they are not.
How we work
- We work with your engineers, not around them, so the capability stays in your company after we leave.
- We size the advice to the company. A twelve-person startup does not need the process of a thousand-person one.
- We say what we see. If a problem is serious, you hear about it early and plainly.
Talk to Dinesh about what you're building.
A one-hour conversation is the usual first step.