Founder Bio

Andrei Arapov

Founder, CEO, and principal Microsoft architect behind Veles IT Solutions and Veles Software. Andrei brings more than 20 years of enterprise IT architecture, systems maintenance, endpoint modernization, cloud, automation, and operational intelligence experience to the way Veles works with customers.

  • Enterprise Microsoft architecture, modernization, and operating-model design
  • Hands-on founder experience across consulting, software, automation, and managed delivery
  • Product thinking shaped by real endpoint, identity, cloud, and help desk friction
  • Microsoft AI Cloud Partner
  • Windows 11
  • Microsoft Entra ID
  • Microsoft Intune
  • Microsoft 365
  • Microsoft Azure
Calgary skyline representing the Canadian roots of Veles

Enterprise Microsoft architect before founder

Andrei built his career in consulting and architectural design for corporations across North America, with a focus on modern Windows management, mobile device management, Azure cloud, and enterprise infrastructure modernization.

That background gives Veles its bias toward practical architecture: clear standards, supportable implementation, and decisions that keep working after a project is complete.

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Software builder shaped by operational friction

Veles Software grew from hands-on Microsoft consulting into products for IT professionals who need better visibility, faster troubleshooting, and more control over endpoint and tenant operations.

MPA Tools and Panorama AI reflect that same pattern: build from real operator need, reduce ambiguity, and help technical teams understand what changed and what to do next.

Engineering team reviewing code and application behavior across multiple workstations

A delivery view that connects architecture to operations

The Veles IT Solutions practice is shaped by the belief that strong Microsoft environments need architecture, implementation, governance, automation, and reporting to reinforce each other.

That is why the services side of Veles stays close to endpoint management, identity, security, managed operations, automation, and the product-led intelligence built by Veles Software.

Microsoft expertise and enterprise delivery depth

Andrei's work sits where Microsoft architecture, day-two operations, and practical tooling meet. The page is intentionally flat and structured so the biography reads as evidence of focus rather than a marketing profile.

Modern endpoint and Windows architecture

Designing Windows, Intune, Configuration Manager, Autopilot, device lifecycle, policy, and support models that remain understandable at enterprise scale.

Identity, Entra ID, and Zero Trust controls

Connecting access, Conditional Access, role boundaries, security posture, and operational workflows so identity decisions can be governed and supported.

Azure and Microsoft 365 modernization

Helping organizations modernize cloud and productivity foundations while preserving control, resilience, and clear operating ownership.

Automation and AI-assisted operations

Using workflow automation, AI agents, and product-led insight to reduce manual repetition without losing approval paths, logging, or accountability.

Operational intelligence and reporting clarity

Turning fragmented endpoint, identity, compliance, patching, and support signals into context that technical teams can act on faster.

Governance, change control, and delivery discipline

Bringing architecture intent into implementation details, documentation, service rhythm, and measurable operating improvement.

Professional Path

From enterprise architecture to product-led operations

The Veles story connects consulting, engineering, and software. Andrei's public profile and Veles Software materials show a career shaped by complex Microsoft delivery and the need to make IT work easier to understand and operate.

  1. Early 2000s

    Enterprise consulting and architecture work begins

    Andrei's Sanity author profile describes consulting and architectural design work for corporations across North America, with a focus on modern Windows management, mobile device management, cloud, and enterprise infrastructure.

  2. 2008

    Veles Software is founded in Calgary

    Veles Software materials describe the company as founded in 2008 in Calgary after years of complex enterprise Microsoft design and delivery work.

  3. 2010s

    Operational utilities become product direction

    Tools first shaped by patching, support, troubleshooting, workstation, and server administration needs became the foundation for public administrative utilities and MPA Tools.

  4. 2021

    MPA Tools moves deeper into Intune workflows

    The product direction expanded into broader Microsoft endpoint management and support scenarios with integrated Intune workflows.

  5. 2024

    AI-assisted operations enter the product model

    OpenAI-backed capabilities were introduced to help IT professionals move faster with intelligent insight and automation.

  6. 2025

    Panorama AI launches

    Panorama AI extended the same operating philosophy into deeper visibility across Entra, Intune, compliance, patching, and endpoint health.

Today, that path informs both sides of Veles: practical software for Microsoft IT teams and architecture-led services for organizations that need implementation, governance, security, automation, and managed operations to work together.

How Andrei's background shapes the Veles approach

The founder story matters because it explains why Veles stays focused on Microsoft environments, operational clarity, and tools that reduce real support and governance friction.

Operator-first thinking

Veles work starts with the people who have to investigate, support, govern, and explain the environment under pressure.

Architecture that survives implementation

The design is only useful when it holds up through rollout, exception handling, documentation, reporting, and day-two support.

Signal over noise

The software and services model favors context, causality, and useful prioritization over another layer of disconnected dashboards.

Governance built into the workflow

Security, identity, compliance, approvals, and auditability are treated as operating requirements, not as late-stage checklists.

That is the through-line behind the consulting, managed services, cybersecurity, automation, and product work across the Veles group.

Public Profile And Related Paths

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This page is connected to the public Veles Software story, Andrei's LinkedIn profile, and the Veles IT Solutions service model that carries the same Microsoft engineering philosophy into customer environments.

LINKEDIN

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VELES SOFTWARE

The product story behind Veles

Veles Software explains how hands-on Microsoft consulting grew into MPA Tools, Panorama AI, and product-led operational intelligence.

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SERVICES

Veles IT Solutions services

See how the founder-led Microsoft engineering approach is organized across consulting, managed services, cybersecurity, cloud, AI, and automation.

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