Offshore development
An offshore engineering team that works like an in-house one
Most offshore engagements fail on communication and ownership, not on technical skill. We work from Colombo as a senior team embedded in your process — same tools, same standards, and a working-day overlap that makes conversation possible.
Capabilities
Engagement models
Three ways to work with us. The right one depends on whether you have engineering leadership in place and how much of the problem you want to hand over.
Extended team
Our engineers join your team and work under your technical direction, in your repositories, your ceremonies, and your review process. You keep architectural ownership; we add capacity and specific expertise.
Dedicated product team
We take a product or a module end to end — design, build, deploy, and support — reporting against outcomes rather than tickets. Suited to organisations without engineering leadership to spare.
Specialist engagement
A scoped piece of work requiring expertise you do not need permanently: an AI feature, a cloud migration, a performance problem nobody in-house has time to chase down.
Why offshore engagements usually go wrong
The common failure is not competence. It is a team that receives instructions instead of context, cannot ask a question without waiting a day for the answer, and therefore builds exactly what was written down rather than what was needed. Every one of those is a communication problem wearing a technical disguise.
The second failure is ownership. When an outsourced team is measured on tickets closed, it will close tickets — including the ones that should have been challenged. Engineers who never hear why something matters cannot tell you that the requirement is wrong, and that judgement is most of what you are actually paying for.
We work against both directly: engineers who talk to the people with the problem, overlapping hours that make that conversation practical, and a standing expectation that we push back when a requirement looks wrong.
Time zone overlap, concretely
Sri Lanka Standard Time is UTC+5:30, with no daylight saving to track. Against South Asia, the Gulf, and Southeast Asia that is a full shared working day. Against Western Europe it is a substantial morning-to-afternoon overlap. Against the US East Coast it is an early-morning window; against the West Coast, a deliberately scheduled one.
What this buys is same-day resolution. A question asked in your morning gets answered in your morning, so a blocked decision costs hours instead of a day and a half. For European and Middle Eastern clients in particular, this is the practical argument for Sri Lanka over offshore locations further east.
How we work inside your process
We use your tools. Your repositories, your issue tracker, your CI, your code review standards, your definition of done. Adopting a vendor's parallel process is how visibility gets lost, and visibility is the thing clients say they miss most in offshore work.
Communication is in English and in writing, with decisions recorded where the whole team can find them. You should be able to open your own tooling and see the current state without asking anyone — if you need a status meeting to know what is happening, something has already gone wrong.
What we bring beyond capacity
The team is senior and small, without layers between the person you talk to and the person writing the code. That is a deliberate structure: it is what makes it possible for an engineer to understand your business well enough to have an opinion about it.
The range is genuinely broad — enterprise backends in Java, Spring, and Go; React and Next.js frontends; React Native mobile; AWS and GCP infrastructure defined in Terraform; and production AI on OpenAI and Anthropic Claude. Most offshore teams sell either application development or AI. Needing both from one team is increasingly the normal case.
Stack
What we build on
Backend
- Java
- Spring
- Go
- Python
- Node.js
Frontend & mobile
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- React Native
AI
- OpenAI
- Anthropic Claude
- LangChain
- pgvector
Cloud & DevOps
- AWS
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- CI/CD
FAQ
Questions we get asked
What time zone do you work in?
Sri Lanka Standard Time, UTC+5:30, with no daylight saving changes. That is a full working-day overlap with South Asia, the Gulf, and Southeast Asia, a strong morning overlap with Europe, and an early-morning window with the US East Coast.
Do we manage your engineers directly?
In an extended-team engagement, yes — they work under your technical direction, in your process. In a dedicated product team, we handle day-to-day management and report against outcomes. Both are common; the choice usually comes down to whether you have engineering leadership with capacity to direct another team.
What happens to the code and infrastructure?
It is yours throughout. We work in your repositories where you have them, and hand over everything including infrastructure definitions and deployment pipelines where you do not. Nothing we build requires us to keep operating it.
How do you handle knowledge transfer if we end the engagement?
By making it a non-event. Documentation is written as work happens rather than assembled at the end, infrastructure is defined as code so environments can be recreated, and we run walkthroughs with whoever is taking over. An engagement that can only end badly was structured badly.
Can you work with our existing engineering team?
That is the most common arrangement. Our engineers join your standups, your review process, and your repositories rather than running a parallel track. Where the work is specialist — an AI feature, a cloud migration — we pair with your engineers so the capability stays with you.
What size and type of client do you work with?
We work with enterprises and funded startups, today mostly across Sri Lanka, with active expansion into international markets. The work spans logistics and freight platforms, corporate systems, and production AI features. The portfolio page shows systems we designed, built, and handed over.
Tell us what you are trying to build
Describe the problem and we will come back with an approach, an honest assessment of the hard parts, and what we would need from you.
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