Company profile · Independent since 2010
16 years. One owner. Clients who don't leave.
DevBatch is a privately held engineering firm working for enterprise software and healthcare organisations across the United States, the Gulf and Europe. We have been building since 2010, we have never taken outside investment, and our longest client relationship is in its 8th year.
At a glance
The profile, in the order procurement asks for it.
Every line below is either checkable on this site or verifiable in a reference call. We publish the smaller defensible number rather than the larger loose one.
- Legal name
- DevBatch LLC
- Founded
- 2010
- Ownership
- Privately held. Founder-owned, no outside investors, no debt financing.
- Engineering staff
- 40 engineers, senior-only
- Longest client relationship
- 8 years, continuous
- Delivery model
- A client-facing owner in your working hours; a build-and-verify team behind them
- Practice lines
- Staff augmentation · AI engineering · Web · Mobile · E-commerce
- Vertical
- Healthcare — patient platforms, EHR integration, ambient clinical AI
- Commercial models
- Monthly senior capacity · fixed cost against a deliverable plus annual maintenance · fixed fee plus a bounded outcome component
- Markets served
- United States · Gulf Cooperation Council · United Kingdom · Australia
Track record
Measured in renewals, not logos.
A services firm is easy to judge on one number: how long its clients stay. Ours run long — the longest is in its 8th year, and it is not one of the three we publish, because not every client wants to be written about. Among those we do publish: a hospital group in Saudi Arabia has renewed its annual maintenance contract twice and carried us into a second hospital through the same executive, and a California enterprise platform started at six engineers and grew the engagement to twenty-five. All three are still running.
Each published case sets out how the engagement started, what was delivered and what it cost to run. Further references, including calls with current clients, are available inside a procurement conversation.
Governance
Six operating principles, 16 years of pressure-testing.
These are the rules the firm is actually run on, including the ones that cost us revenue.
Senior over junior, always
No juniors on client work. The bar is whether we would let this person commit unsupervised on day one. Now that generation is cheap, what you are paying a senior for is judgement at the two ends — deciding what to build, and proving it works.
We only stand behind what we can prove
We prove correctness against the specification you signed, and we say plainly where that stops — your business result depends on your users and your market, not on our code. We bound that in the contract instead of quietly promising it.
Nobody verifies what they built
Independence is a rule about artifacts, not about people. One engineer can build one thing and verify a different thing — never their own. A team that grades its own homework is the failure mode we exist to close.
Direct lines, no account layer
You talk to the people shipping the work. There is no account manager translating status, and the founder is reachable by phone for the life of the engagement.
The deals we don't take
Magento, in any form. Pure project work with no path beyond it. First-time founders without technical leadership. Turning work down is how the rest of the work stays good.
Continuity is the product
We would rather grow inside an account than win a new logo, so engagements are structured to expand rather than to end. Renewals are the only performance review that matters here, and they are the number we would want you to judge us on.
Contracting and compliance
The boring questions, answered before you ask.
Most of what slows an engagement down is procurement, not engineering. These are settled on the first call.
Contracting
You contract with DevBatch LLC under an MSA with per-engagement statements of work. W-9 on file. NDA is standard and can be signed before the first technical call.
Data and IP
Data Processing Agreement available on request. Intellectual property transfers on commit, not on final payment — your repository holds your code from day one.
Healthcare
BAAs signed as standard for US healthcare engagements. HIPAA-aware engineering on every healthcare engagement, with PHI handling agreed in writing before work begins.
Regional posture
TEFCA-aware architecture for US health information exchange. KSA NDMO awareness for Saudi engagements and UAE TDRA awareness for the Emirates. Procedural posture, not third-party certification — we say which is which.
AI and your data
What may enter a model context, which endpoints and retention terms are permitted, what is redacted first, and where a private model is required instead — settled in writing before any work starts, not assumed.
References
Three engagements are published in detail. Reference calls with current clients are available inside a procurement conversation, on request.
Leadership
Waqas Khan Pitafi · CEO and sole owner.
I founded DevBatch in 2010 and I have been its only owner since. There is no account layer between the engineers and the buyer, and no investor whose timeline competes with your engagement. When you sign with DevBatch you sign with the person who picks up the phone.
Talk to the founder.
Waqas takes the discovery call himself. 30 minutes. No deck. He'll tell you on the call if we're the right fit.