No headshots. No bios for the senior engineers. The reason is simple. The brand-name boutiques fall apart the moment their seniors get poached, and the big consultancies parade partners in the pitch then deploy graduates after the contract signs. We didn’t want either failure mode on the page.
Studio Our team · senior software engineers UK · senior-only studio
Our team is two senior engineers, named on the SOW, named on every commit.
You don’t need a wall of headshots — you need to know who’ll touch your code. Two senior engineers paired daily, signed on your scope of work, writing the commits. No juniors, no staff-aug, no B-team after the deposit.
2seniors paired per engagement
96%engineer retention, 7 years
0junior B-team hand-offs
Why the team page is short
You don’t need our photos. You need to know who’ll touch your code.
Brand-name boutiques fall apart when their seniors get poached. Big consultancies show you partners, then ship juniors. We made the opposite move: hide the grid, write the names on the SOW, and let the work do the talking.
“You meet the engineers on the kick-off call. They’re the ones who write the code, attend the cutover, and answer the Slack message at midnight.”
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Senior engineers paired daily on every engagement, named on the SOW.
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Engineer retention across seven years. The names on the SOW are the names on the commits.
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Full-time senior engineers across London, Rajkot, and remote.
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Engagements signed off personally by Mohit since 2019.
For the founder who’d rather meet the engineersNo headshots · no bios · names on the kick-off call
Six years ago Mohit made a quiet decision: no public team grid.
So we hide the team, write the names on the SOW, and let the work talk. You meet the engineers on the kick-off call. They’re the ones who’ll write the code, attend the cutover, and answer the Slack message at midnight. If you want a team photo, you’ll wait until the audit call. We’ll bring the engineers on Zoom and introduce them by name.
Then you decide whether you’d trust them with your codebase. Nobody else gets to that page. This is for the founder who’d rather meet the engineers than read a marketing bio.
SENIOR-ONLY DEVELOPMENT STUDIO · LONDON SOFTWARE STUDIO TEAM
Mohit is the only public name. The rest you meet on the call.
You want to know exactly who sits on your engagement and how to reach the person who owns it. Here’s the honest answer, written plainly, so you can decide before you send the brief.
Founder + lead architect
Mohit Ramani. Founder of Empyreal Infotech Limited. Reviews every PR that touches the spine. Attends every audit kick-off. Reads every brief himself.
A direct email, founder-read
Write to mohit@empyrealinfotech.com and you reach Mohit, not a sales funnel. A real reply inside 24 hours. No SDR, no calendar maze.
Engineer introductions
On the audit kick-off call, we introduce the two senior engineers who’ll ship the work. Names, LinkedIn profiles, and recent code samples on request.
Same team, project to project
The seniors who sign your scope are the seniors who ship and maintain it. 96% engineer retention over seven years means there’s no quiet swap once you commit.
How a senior-only team actually works. Written plainly.
You’ve been told “senior” before and watched the work land on a graduate. Here are the four rules that decide who touches your code, and why they hold across every engagement we sign.
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“They pitched seniors and shipped juniors the week after we signed.”
The names on the SOW are the names on the commits. Two senior engineers paired daily, named before you sign, writing the code you pay for. No quiet swap once the deposit clears.
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“Our last freelancer vanished on a better offer and took the context with him.”
Two seniors per engagement, not one. Every spine decision lands in an ADR the same day, so if one steps out, the other carries the why, not just the what. Two handovers in seven years, both inside 48 hours.
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“How do I tell a senior engineer from a junior with a senior title?”
Schema, auth, payments, infra: all senior, all reviewed by Mohit. If we can’t staff your build with senior engineers, we won’t take it on. 96% retention means the seniors stay on it.
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“I never actually found out who was writing my code.”
You meet the two seniors by name on the kick-off call. LinkedIn profiles and recent code samples on request. IP assigns on every commit, so the work lives in your GitHub org from day one.
Proof a small senior team holds up
Real figures from the engagements two senior engineers shipped, named on the SOW and auditable on a call.
£540M+
GMV through code we
They pitched seniors and actually shipped seniors. The names on the SOW were the names on the commits, project to project.
Scale + receipts that survive diligence
The numbers your CFO, your VC
The numbers your CFO, your VC
and your acquirer ask about, not adjectives
You’re weighing a small senior team against a name-brand shop, and the only thing that settles it is what we can prove. Every figure here is auditable on a call, measured on production code we wrote.
Scale
£540M+
GMV through code we shipped
320M+
API calls a year, 2025
Trust
0
Breaches in seven years
SOC 2
Type II achieved, Dec 2025
Outcomes
2 + 3
IPOs and M&A exits
96%
Engineer retention
The senior bench · senior software engineers UK
Twelve seniors. The same faces, project to project.
No public grid, but here’s the shape of the bench you draw from. Two of these seniors get paired daily on your engagement, named on the SOW and introduced on the kick-off call.
DISCIPLINE
(01)
Founder + lead architect
Mohit Ramani, London. Reviews every spine PR, signs every audit, and has been in the room for every architecture call since 2019.
Architecture
Spine review
ADRs
Audit kick-off
Founder + lead architect
DISCIPLINE
(02)
Principal backend
Nine years on payments and identity. Builds the settlement engines your finance team reconciles against the bank.
Postgres
Node
Stripe
Risk modelling
Principal backend
DISCIPLINE
(03)
Senior AI engineer
Production RAG, agents, and evals. Ships the matching and inference layers that hold up under real load.
LangGraph
pgvector
FastAPI
Evals
Senior AI engineer
DISCIPLINE
(04)
Senior frontend engineer
Eight years on Next.js, React Native, and Flutter. Reads Figma the way the designer intended, then flags which decisions will fight the architecture in month three.
Next.js
React Native
Flutter
Design systems
Senior frontend engineer
DISCIPLINE
(05)
Senior platform + infra
Owns the deploy pipeline and the on-call runbook so the platform stays alive under load, not just on demo day.
AWS
Kubernetes
Terraform
Datadog
Senior platform + infra
Procurement, security, and the walk-away clause.
Your CFO, CTO, and DPO each want the same thing: it in writing. Three things every engagement gives you before you ever have to ask, so a small senior team reads as low-risk to the people signing off the spend.
SOC 2 Type II achieved, with the evidence pipeline wired from day one.
Empyreal-internal SOC 2 Type II achieved December 2025. We turn your enterprise security questionnaire from a two-week scramble into a paste.
- SOC 2 Type II + pen-test report held
- UK + EU GDPR-aware DPA + SCCs on file
- 30-day DSAR runbook, erasure at the schema
- SIG-Lite + CAIQ procurement pack pre-filled
A 30-day walk-away that works in both directions.
You keep everything. IP assigns on every commit, so there’s never a moment your code isn’t yours. No lock-in, no hostage codebase.
- IP assigns on every commit
- 30-day walk-away both ways
- Two handovers in seven years, both inside 48 hours
- 12-month no-poach for referrer agencies on request
The seniors who sign your scope are the seniors who maintain it.
No analyst chain, no bench filler, no offshore handoff. The same two seniors, project to project, with 96% retention to prove the model holds.
- Two senior engineers paired daily
- Mohit reviews every PR on the spine
- One ADR per spine decision, written the same day
- 200+ engagements signed off personally since 2019
What founders actually ask about the team
Pain-first, soft-second. The questions that come up when you’re trying to find out who’ll really be on your engagement.
Because a public grid is a liability, not a reassurance. Brand-name boutiques fall apart when their seniors get poached off a headshot, and big consultancies show you partners then ship juniors. We’re a senior-only development studio: we put the names on the SOW, introduce the two senior engineers on the kick-off call, and let the work do the talking. You meet the people who’ll write your code before you sign, just not on a marketing page.
On the audit kick-off call we introduce the two senior engineers who’ll ship your engagement, by name, with LinkedIn profiles and recent code samples on request. They’re the ones who write the code, attend the cutover, and answer the Slack message at midnight. Email Mohit a 5-line brief and the introductions happen on the call, not after the contract signs.
You meet the engineers before you sign and their names go on the SOW. We’re senior-only by policy: no juniors on production code, ever. 96% engineer retention over seven years means the senior software engineers in the UK who scope your build are the ones who ship and maintain it. Zero engagements have been handed to a junior B-team after the deposit cleared. Seven years running.
Two senior engineers are paired on every engagement, not one, so there’s no single point of failure to lose. Every spine decision goes into an ADR the same day it’s made, and Mohit reviews every PR that touches the spine. We’ve had two handovers in seven years, both completed inside 48 hours. The continuity is engineered, not hoped for.
You talk to Mohit. He’s the only public name on this London software studio team because he reads every brief himself, attends every audit kick-off, and reviews every PR that touches the spine. Write to mohit@empyrealinfotech.com and you get a real reply inside 24 hours: a clear yes, a clear no, or the one question that decides it. No SDR funnel, no calendar maze.
Yes. We run as a senior pod owning specific surface area, as a paired-engineer arrangement where one of our seniors sits next to one of yours on every PR, or as an architecture-only voice where we make the calls and your team ships against them. We pick the model in the audit week, with you in the room. We’d rather make your team better than replace it.
It already has, repeatedly. Two clients reached IPO with code we wrote, and three exited via M&A with full-team acquirer-CTO retention. Every spine decision ships as a written ADR, so the diligence reviewer inherits the why, not just the what. A senior-only studio reads as lower risk on a diligence call than a rotating cast of contractors, because the people who built it are still the people on it.
Twelve full-time senior engineers, across London and Rajkot, plus remote. No bench filler, no contractor-on-contractor stack. Two seniors are paired on your engagement and named on the SOW. The rest of the bench covers backend, mobile, AI, and infrastructure, so the right two for your brief get assigned, not whoever happens to be free.
In context
Inside the work.
A look at the kind of our team surface we hand over — real screens, real data, documented and yours from day one.
One paragraph. That’s the whole introduction.
Email Mohit a 5-line brief: your current estate, your deadline, and the outcome you’re after. A real reply inside 24 hours, with the names of the two senior engineers who’d run the engagement and the next audit slot. A clear yes, a clear no, or the one question that decides it.
What happens after the email lands
- < 24h
A personal reply.
Yes, no, or the deciding question. Straight to your inbox, from Mohit.
- Kick-off
The engineers, by name.
On the audit call we introduce the two seniors who’d ship your work.
- Wk 1
The same seniors start.
The engineers you met sign on, and the architecture goes to your repo.