01 / INDIA ENGINEERING OPERATIONS

Build your India engineering teamwithout building India operations.

Cache helps global companies stand up secure, scalable engineering, AI, cloud and fintech delivery teams in India — backed by 25 years of enterprise execution.

WHO WE WORK WITH

Hire your first India engineering team in days, not months

No India entity needed. We are the employer on paper — you manage the work. Start with as few as 2 engineers.

Get started — no commitment

Live in 2–3 weeks

Month-to-month flexibility

Flat monthly fee per head

Live · London 2026

Meet Cache at Thinking Digital London

We're crossing the channel to talk to ambitious global small businesses about a quiet truth: you don't need to be a Fortune 500 to run a world-class India engineering team. You just need the right partner.

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Thinking Digital · London
Why global small businesses trust Cache
  • Built for global SMBs

    From 5-person startups in London to 50-person scale-ups in New York — the same enterprise-grade India operations that power our Fortune 500 clients.

  • No India entity required

    We are your employer of record, compliance shield and HR team on the ground in Bangalore. You stay focused on shipping product.

  • Meet the leadership team in person

    Our leadership team will be at Thinking Digital London — open office hours, frank conversations, no decks unless you want one.

Already serving SMBs across the UK, EU, US and Singapore — backed by 25+ years of enterprise delivery from our Bangalore operations.

FIND THE RIGHT MODEL

Find the right model for your team

Three ways to build your India presence. Scale up as your needs grow.

Most popular

Employer of Record (EOR)

Best for: 2–30 people

We legally employ your engineers in India. You manage their day-to-day work. No India company registration required.

Live in 2–3 weeks
Start with EOR

Offshore Development Centre (ODC)

Best for: 15–100 people

A dedicated team in India, branded as your own. We handle office, HR, payroll, and compliance. You own the output.

Operational in 6–8 weeks
Build an ODC

Global Capability Centre (GCC)

Best for: 75+ people

Your own India subsidiary, fully set up and run by us. Captive model with full IP ownership, governance, and your brand on the door.

Setup in 3–6 months
Plan my GCC
HOW IT WORKS

From hello to hired in under 3 weeks

01

Tell us what you need

You share the roles, skills, and seniority. We handle the rest.

02

We find and vet candidates

Our Bangalore team sources and interviews engineers on your behalf.

03

You meet your shortlist

Interview 2–3 pre-vetted candidates. Hire who you like.

04

We onboard and manage

Contracts, payroll, PF, gratuity, compliance — all handled by us.

No India bank account, no Indian company, no compliance headache.

25+ years
India operations experience
2–3 weeks
Average time to first hire
SOC 2
Security controls
Bangalore based
On-the-ground HR team
"We went from zero to a 4-person engineering team in Bangalore in under a month. Cache handled every piece of paperwork we'd never have figured out ourselves."
Founder, B2B SaaS company, 18 employees
"Cache has been running our India GCC operations for three years. Compliance, payroll, and HR governance are off our plate entirely — our leadership team focuses on delivery."
VP Engineering, Global Fintech

Testimonials paraphrased from client feedback — names withheld on request.

YOUR INDIA ROADMAP

Start small. Scale to a GCC when you're ready.

01

EOR — hire fast

  • 2–30 people, weeks to launch
  • We are the legal employer
  • Month-to-month
02

ODC — dedicated team

  • 15–100 people, your branding
  • Dedicated office and HR
  • Annual engagement
03

GCC — your India entity

  • 75+ people, full ownership
  • Your subsidiary, your IP
  • Permanent presence

Many clients start at EOR and transition to GCC over 12–24 months — without changing vendors.

25 Years of Operations
SOC 2 Aligned
Enterprise Infrastructure DNA
Fintech Engineering Expertise
Cloud & AI Delivery
Global Engineering Operations

02 / THE INDIA ADVANTAGE

Why global companies build engineering teams in India.

The decision is no longer about cost. It is about capability, continuity, and where serious engineering organizations choose to build their second home.

Global engineering network anchored in India
01
Elite engineering talent
One of the deepest senior platform, cloud and AI engineering pools globally.
02
Cloud & AI ecosystem maturity
Production hubs for every hyperscaler, plus a dense AI research and vendor base.
03
Regulated fintech engineering base
Built around UPI, lending and payments operating at national scale.
04
Rapid, durable scaling
Ramp 5 to 500 without re-architecting governance, security or leadership.
05
Timezone leverage
Overlap with US and EU hours. Follow-the-sun delivery without compromise.
06
Long-term operational advantage
No longer a cost center. The second headquarters for serious engineering orgs.

03 / WHY CACHE

Why companies choose Cache.

01

25 years of operational maturity

Continuous delivery since 2000 — through every infrastructure cycle.

02

Founder-led execution

Leadership owns the outcome. No account-management theatre.

03

Enterprise infrastructure DNA

Built on regulated workloads, not consumer experiments.

04

Security-first delivery

Isolation, least privilege, audit-ready by default.

05

Boutique with enterprise discipline

Decisions in days. Governance like an SI.

06

Faster than large SIs

Senior continuity. No procurement-cycle ramp.

07

Bengaluru engineering ecosystem

A 25-year senior network we don't recruit cold.

08

Long-term partnership

Relationships measured in years, not quarters.

04 / HOW WE OPERATE

A predictable path from intent to scale.

One operating model. Five gates. Designed so enterprise buyers can predict outcomes before they commit.

01

Discovery & Assessment

Engineering charter, security posture, India fit.

  • Architecture review
  • Risk & control mapping
02

India Strategy & GCC Plan

Entity model, city, leadership, governance.

  • Operating model design
  • SOC 2 alignment plan
03

Hiring & Team Formation

Senior network sourcing, structured assessment.

  • Leadership-first hiring
  • EOR from week one
04

Secure Delivery Setup

Identity, endpoint, network, observability.

  • Isolated environments
  • Audit-ready controls
05

Governance & Scale

Predictable ramp. Quarterly business reviews.

  • QBR cadence
  • Capacity & risk reporting

Internal build vs Cache GCC partnership

Two ways to build in India. One delivers in months, not years.

Dimension
Internal build
Cache GCC partnership
Time to first hire
6–9 months (entity-blocked)
Week 1 via EOR coverage
Entity & MCA setup
Multi-vendor coordination
End-to-end, single accountable owner
Hiring infrastructure
Built from scratch
25-year India sourcing network
Payroll & compliance
Separate payroll, legal, tax vendors
Unified — PF, ESI, TDS, FEMA, RBI
IT & security baseline
3–6 months to harden
SOC 2-aligned controls on day one
Governance model
You design and operate
Proven operating model, ready to run
Scalability
Linear with internal capacity
Ramp 5 → 500 without re-architecting
Operational overhead
Permanent leadership distraction
Cache absorbs the operating load

CREDIBILITY YOU CAN AUDIT

Trust isn't a tagline.
It's a paper trail.

Cache is built for clients who need their engineering partner to pass procurement, risk, and infosec review on the first pass. Every control below is independently verifiable on request.

SOC 2
Type II Audited
100%
BGV Workforce
25 yrs
Breach-Free
24×7
SOC Monitoring

Certified

SOC 2 Type II

Independently audited controls for security, availability and confidentiality — renewed annually.

Workforce

100% Background-Verified

Every engineer, analyst and operator clears identity, education, employment and criminal verification before day one.

Process

Rock-Solid SDLC

ISO-aligned delivery playbooks, change evidence, SAST/SCA in CI and signed artefacts on every release.

Data

Encryption Everywhere

AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit, KMS-managed keys and tamper-evident audit logs across every environment.

Track record

25 Years, Zero Breaches

A quarter-century of regulated-industry delivery with a clean security record across banking, fintech and infrastructure.

Operations

24×7 SOC Monitoring

Round-the-clock security operations, incident runbooks and a 15-minute escalation SLA for critical events.

SOC 2 Type II report · BGV policy · ISO-aligned SDLC · available under NDA

07 / SECURITY & GOVERNANCE

Security is the operating system, not a feature.

Cache engagements ship inside a hardened operating envelope. Identity, network, data and change controls are wired before the first commit.

DELIVERY OPERATING ENVELOPE

01

SOC 2 alignment

Controls mapped to Trust Services Criteria from day one.

02

Secure SDLC

SAST, SCA, secret scanning and signed artefacts in CI.

03

Access governance

Identity-bound least privilege. Just-in-time elevation.

04

Cloud compliance

Landing zones, policy-as-code, drift detection.

05

Operational controls

Change evidence, incident runbooks, on-call discipline.

06

Auditability

Tamper-evident logs. Evidence generated automatically.

08 / OPERATING METRICS

Numbers that describe how we operate.

25

Years operating

Continuous since 2000

6

Countries served

US · UK · EU · South Korea · Australia · India

120+

Enterprise programs

Engineering, infra, cloud

99.99%

Availability target

Production workloads

<6%

Engineering attrition

Annualised, India pods

09 / LEADERSHIP

Built by operators who have run enterprise engineering for two decades.

Cache is a founder-led organization. The same leadership that wins your engagement owns its outcome — and stays present through years of partnership, not weeks of sales motion.

MR

Mohan Rajamani

Founder & Managing Director

Speak with leadership
01

Founder-led execution

Every engagement carries direct accountability from leadership. No hand-off, no account-management theatre.

02

Engineering as a discipline

We treat delivery as a craft — architectural integrity, code quality and operational rigor are non-negotiable.

03

Long-term partnership

Our average client relationship spans years. We optimize for compounding outcomes, not quarterly motion.

04

Security by default

Isolated environments, least-privilege access and audit-ready controls are how we ship — not features we add later.

Selected case studies

Outcomes that compound.

See all case studies

Fintech · US

Fintech cloud modernization

Challenge

A US lender running monolithic origination on legacy data centers needed multi-region AWS, sub-second decisioning and audit-ready posture.

Approach

Cache embedded a 22-engineer pod across platform, data and SRE. Replatformed to EKS, event-driven services, and a hardened SOC 2 control plane.

Outcome

63% lower infra spend · 4× faster decisioning · zero P1 incidents over 18 months.

AWSEKSKafkaTerraformDatadog

SaaS · Europe

India engineering team setup

Challenge

A European SaaS company wanted a 60-engineer India hub in 9 months without operating its own entity on day one.

Approach

EOR coverage from week one, parallel entity setup, three engineering leaders hired in 60 days, full IT and security baseline.

Outcome

60 engineers live in 7 months · <6% annualised attrition · first product release shipped from India in month 4.

EORMCA setupOktaCrowdStrikeAzure DevOps

Pharma · Global

Enterprise infrastructure transformation

Challenge

A regulated global pharma needed to consolidate three datacenter footprints onto hybrid cloud with GxP and SOX-grade controls.

Approach

Cache led architecture, migration waves, identity and observability. Built a 14-engineer India platform team co-located with EU operations.

Outcome

38% TCO reduction · 99.99% availability · validated GxP audit pass on first attempt.

AzureAKSServiceNowSplunkHashiCorp Vault

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