About
Technology that
disappears into the visit.
A museum-technology studio based in New Delhi, building for the realities of Indian public galleries.
Red Banana Tech Studio · a brand of Red Banana Tech Solutions Private Limited
The concept should explain the form. Every screen, sound and interaction we build exists to carry the exhibition's idea, never to perform beside it.
What we believe
Most museum technology fails quietly: a frozen screen nobody restarts, a speaker that died in week two, a "coming soon" that never comes. The visitor doesn't file a complaint. They just stop trusting the room. So we optimise for the thing nobody sees: the ten-thousandth visitor's experience being identical to the first's.
How we are different
- Offline is the architecture, not a fallback. Galleries lose internet, or never had it. Our apps ship with everything embedded and treat the network as a stranger.
- Testing is adversarial. We plant deliberate failures to prove our checks can say no. A test that cannot fail is decoration.
- Bilingual by construction. Hindi is not a translation pass at the end; both languages are first-class from the first commit.
- We stay after opening day. Install, hardening, monitoring and honest reporting are part of the work, not an upsell.
Where we work
Based in New Delhi, registered in Ajmer, Rajasthan, and built around India's cultural sector: ministries, foundations, private museums and the studios that design for them. Our engineering sits comfortably beside curators and exhibition designers. We speak both languages.
The name
Yes, red bananas are real: rarer, tougher-skinned and sweeter than the yellow kind. It fit.
Founder & CEO, Red Banana Tech Solutions Private Limited
Vivek Sharma
An engineer by training. A teacher at heart. A builder by choice.
Vivek Sharma is the Founder & CEO of Red Banana Tech Solutions Private Limited. An IIT Kharagpur alumnus with a dual degree in Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering, his background spans research at McGill University, chemistry education and backend software development at EY. He brings an engineer’s analytical thinking and a teacher’s emphasis on clarity to his work, with a practical, hands-on approach to turning ideas into useful products and experiences.
He also served as COO and CFO of Cultre for three years. It is where he learned operations, management and finance, how to run a company, and he brings all of it to Red Banana. Cultre is also where he became an artist: he has an art installation at the Constitution Museum at O. P. Jindal Global University, and now art at Handloom Haat.
Cultre weaves research and design into layered narratives that connect people to culture. Its work includes India’s first Constitution Museum, inaugurated to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Constitution’s adoption; The Kunj, an initiative of the Office of the Development Commissioner (Handicrafts) under the Ministry of Textiles; an exhibition at the India Art, Architecture and Design Biennale 2023 at the Red Fort; and Toilet Tales: Pits to Plumbing for the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets.
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Hi, I’m Vivek.
My journey has taken me through research laboratories, chemistry classrooms and software development. Today, as the founder of Red Banana, I bring those experiences together with a simple ambition: to turn good ideas into things that are useful, thoughtfully made and easy for people to engage with.
I enjoy understanding how things work. More importantly, I enjoy figuring out how they could work better.
It started with curiosity
I studied at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, completing a five-year B.Tech. (Hons.) and M.Tech. dual degree in Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering between 2007 and 2012. My academic work gave me a grounding in scientific research, experimentation and analytical thinking.
During those years, I also undertook two summer research internships at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, working on projects involving molecular biology and protein interactions. At IIT Kharagpur, my research explored arsenic-resistant bacteria and the genes involved in arsenic transport.
Research taught me to be comfortable with not having the answer immediately. To ask better questions, test an assumption, learn from what does not work and try again. That approach still feels relevant every time I begin something new.
Then came the classroom
After IIT, I spent several years teaching chemistry to students preparing for engineering and medical entrance examinations, with roles at IITian’s PACE in Mumbai and Aryaan Study Circle in Goa. My work included classroom teaching, developing study material, setting assessments and helping students work through difficult concepts.
Teaching shaped the way I communicate and solve problems. Knowing a subject is one thing. Explaining it so that someone else can understand it, question it and use it is another.
It also taught me to listen. A useful explanation starts with understanding where the other person is coming from, not with demonstrating how much you know.
That is a lesson I bring to working with clients and teams.
From explaining systems to building them
I later moved into software development, joining EY in 2022 as a backend web developer. There, I worked on backend applications, REST APIs, automated testing, debugging and improvements to software reliability. My technical toolkit included Python, Flask and related backend technologies.
The move from teaching to technology was a change in profession, but there was a familiar challenge at its centre: take something complicated, understand its structure and make it work clearly.
It reinforced something I value about learning. You do not have to remain within the boundaries of your first qualification. You do, however, have to be willing to start again, practise and do the work.
Bringing it together at Red Banana
Red Banana is where I bring that mix of curiosity, communication and hands-on problem-solving.
My approach starts with understanding the need before deciding on the technology. What are we trying to make possible? Who will use it? What would make their experience simpler, more engaging or more useful?
I like being involved in both the thinking and the making, from discussing an early idea to working through the details that help it take shape. I care about what happens after something is launched, too: whether it is dependable, whether people enjoy using it and whether it does the job it was built to do.
The ambition for Red Banana is to build a company that people enjoy working with as much as they value the work itself. A place for thoughtful questions, honest conversations, experimentation and care in the execution.
I’m still curious. Still learning. And happiest when there is something worth building.