Tampa Software Company Continues Steady Growth, Adds Jobs

Pilgrim Software, an international company headquartered in Tampa, is expanding its operations, which will require it to double its local workforce within the next two years.”Our infrastructure is continuing to expand,” explains Prashanth Rajendran, Pilgrim’s COO. “Although we have expanded in Europe and Asia, the company itself has focused on Tampa as the hub. We plan to double in size here in Tampa in the next year or so.”The company’s growth is due to its global partner strategy and its software-as-a-service product. “As we continue to bring in partners to resell our products, we need more staff to accommodate that growth,” says Rajendran. “It’s the same thing with software-as-a-service. We take the IT burden away for the customer, but we need the staff to handle it.”Partners include Microsoft Certified, CinCom, PSC, HCL and CDC Software. Software-as-a-service, a relatively new service on the IT landscape, provides on-demand software online as opposed to the traditional model that requires software be loaded onto a hard drive.The company’s leadership is diverse, led by President and CEO Ami Utji. The original team came together to form Pilgrim largely due to their shared alma mater, the University of South Florida. “The people who started the company had a common ideology,” says Rajendran. The company’s vision statement is “to be the world’s most innovative and trusted provider of compliance and quality management solutions for regulated industries.”Pilgrim specializes in providing software solutions to businesses that serve life sciences as well as manufacturers in the automotive, aerospace and other related industries.