About

Engineer first

Fourteen years in Germany, now building from Texas. I still scope every QueryNow build myself, and when you book a call, I am the person on it.

Portrait of Mahesh Tatiparthy in a navy blazer

The story

I started as an engineer at Infosys in 2007 and spent nearly three of my seven years there on site with the adidas Group in Germany. I watched a large company slow down its own best ideas, and I learned what it takes to deliver quickly inside one.

That became QueryNow. For a decade we built for pharmaceutical, manufacturing and healthcare clients across Europe, then I moved the company's base to Texas. The offer today is simple: we build one workflow in two weeks inside your systems, and you pay when it meets the criteria you signed.

JobRoute.ai came from the same engagements. Every enterprise AI project I led raised the question of which jobs and tasks would change first, and nobody had a straight answer built from public data.

2007
Joined Infosys
Seven years as an engineer and later lead technical consultant, including nearly three on site with the adidas Group in Germany.
2014
Founded QueryNow in Germany
A small team building for pharmaceutical, manufacturing and healthcare clients across Europe.
2015
Became a Microsoft partner
The start of a decade of production systems for clients including Bayer, Takeda, Rockwell Automation and Burckhardt Compression.
2016
An intranet live in eight weeks
We shipped a new intranet for a hearing aid maker in eight weeks, from first workshop to launch.
2017
Spoke at Intra.NET Reloaded Berlin
The European conference for intranet and digital workplace teams.
2018
Spoke at ESPC18 in Copenhagen
The European SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure Conference, including an interview in its official highlights video.
2024
Moved to Texas
After fourteen years in Germany, I landed in Dallas with six suitcases and brought QueryNow to the United States.
2026
Taught the TiE Dallas TYE masterclass
A hands-on session on AI tools, cloud platforms and the startup toolkit for the TiE Young Entrepreneurs 2026 cohort.
2026
JobRoute.ai and The Seven Frictions
Co-founded JobRoute.ai to measure how AI changes work, and published the book on why IT slows innovation.

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Short bio

Mahesh Tatiparthy is the founder and CEO of QueryNow, an enterprise AI implementation firm he founded in Germany in 2014, and the co-founder and CEO of JobRoute.ai. He is the author of The Seven Frictions: Why IT Slows Innovation in the AI Era, and How to Fix It (2026).

Long bio

Mahesh Tatiparthy is the founder and CEO of QueryNow, a firm that deploys enterprise AI and modernizes legacy systems for mid-market and Fortune 500 companies in regulated industries. QueryNow has shipped more than 200 production systems since 2014, for clients including Bayer, Takeda, Adidas and Rockwell Automation, and works on a fixed-price, pay-when-it-works basis.

Before founding QueryNow in Germany in 2014, he spent seven years with Infosys, the last as a lead technical consultant, including nearly three years on site with the adidas Group. He led QueryNow across pharmaceutical, manufacturing and healthcare clients in Europe for a decade before bringing the company to Texas.

He is also the co-founder and CEO of JobRoute.ai, a workforce intelligence platform that scores the AI exposure of every occupation in the United States, task by task, from public labor data, and a charter member of TiE Dallas, where he mentors high school and college founders. His book, The Seven Frictions, explains why IT slows innovation and how to fix it one workflow at a time.