Web platform development in Hyderabad
Quality, clinical and operations teams in Hyderabad's pharma companies and GCCs run a surprising amount of important work in tools that were never designed for it: shared drives, spreadsheets with macros, or a platform built quickly with no record of who changed what. When someone asks who changed a record, when, and why, the honest answer is often a search through email.
We build web platforms in Next.js for these teams with that history designed in. Every change to an important record leaves a time-stamped trail. Electronic signatures are tied to a named user and state what the signature means. Roles are enforced by the system, not by convention, and review and approval steps follow your standard operating procedures. We write the design documentation as we build, so your quality team can see exactly what the platform does and why.
Hyderabad's technology economy grew around HITEC City, set up in 1998, and spread west through Gachibowli and the Financial District. It is where Microsoft runs one of its largest research and development centres outside Redmond and where Amazon opened what it described as its largest campus building, in 2019. JLL counts more than 355 global capability centres in the city, the in-house engineering and operations offices of foreign companies, employing over 200,000 people, which makes it the second-largest GCC hub in India. Those centres set the local price of an experienced engineer, and every other employer in the city, startups included, hires against them.
The second pillar is life sciences. Genome Valley, the pharmaceutical manufacturers on the city's edge and a fast-growing set of pharma GCCs make Hyderabad unusual: according to the same JLL research, nine of the world's top 18 pharma, biotech and medical device companies run capability centres here. Software in this world is about records people can trust. Quality teams need to see who changed a record, when and why. Approvals need a named person behind them. A batch, a deviation or a sample has to be traceable from start to finish. Much of that work still lives in shared drives and spreadsheets that have outgrown the job.
So the buyers here are usually one of three. GCC leaders with a mandate from headquarters and a hiring pipeline that moves slower than the roadmap. Quality, clinical and commercial teams in pharma who need a tool built properly and documented as it is built. And the city's own startups and established firms, who compete with those GCCs for every engineer and need senior people on a piece of work long before a hire can join.
We are in Bengaluru and share your time zone, so the working day is the same on both sides. Most of the work happens in your repository, your ticketing system and a shared chat channel, which is how most GCCs prefer to run anyway. You talk directly to the engineer who writes the code, and the runbooks and architecture notes are written as we go, so your permanent team inherits them.
We are the right fit for the proof of concept that wins your GCC its headcount, a funded build that needs senior engineers before hiring can staff it, or specialist work alongside your team. Start with a fixed-price two-week piece and judge us on what ships. Agencies and IT services firms can bring us in white-label under their name.
Four ways this arrives.
We replace the role column with a permission model that can express teams, access to individual resources and roles the customer defines, add SAML or OIDC sign-in, and write the audit log their security questionnaire will ask about.
Or very nearly did. We find every query that can cross a tenant boundary, enforce the tenant in one layer rather than in every handler, and add tests that try to read across that boundary on purpose.
We build the admin side properly: search across organisations, an audited view-as-user mode, and screens for access and usage. Support stops asking an engineer to run a query against production every time a customer says something looks wrong.
An early Next.js app with auth stitched into middleware, a custom server, and a release process that lives in someone's head. We move it forward in small steps, with preview environments and a pipeline anyone on the team can ship from.
A Next.js platform scoped per organisation, where an administrator can view the app as any other user and each Tableau report opens only for people granted it.
Read the write-up →Asked by Hyderabad teams.
How do you work with teams in Hyderabad?+
We are in Bengaluru and share your time zone, so calls, reviews and releases fit inside your normal working day. We work in your tools: Slack, GitHub and Linear, or whichever chat, repositories and ticketing your parent company has standardised on, with access through your own accounts. You talk directly to the engineer writing the code, and the decisions, runbooks and architecture notes are written down in your repository as we go.
Do you build for pharma and life sciences teams?+
Yes. We build the tools quality, clinical and commercial teams use every day: platforms where every change to a record shows who made it, when and why; approvals tied to a named person; field apps for medical representatives that work without signal; batch- and expiry-aware ordering for distributors; and document search that cites the exact source passage. The design documentation is written as we build, so your teams can see exactly what the system does.
How does your rate compare to hiring in Hyderabad?+
PayScale puts a mid-career software engineer in Hyderabad at about ₹14 lakh a year. Our published rate is $35 an hour, with a $5,000 minimum. That buys a senior engineer who writes the code, works in your Slack, GitHub and Linear, and starts within days, with no recruiting round, notice period or employment overhead. Begin with a fixed-price two-week piece at $2,800 and judge us on what ships.
Can you build the proof of concept our GCC needs to win headcount?+
Yes. We build one workflow as a small, real product inside your environment, usually in Next.js and Postgres, with usage you can report to headquarters. It starts with a fixed-price two-week piece, so the first working version arrives quickly and costs a known amount. The NDA comes before specifics, and the code sits in your repositories from the first commit, so when the headcount is approved your new team extends it.
What is wrong with a role column?+
Nothing, until you have more than one kind of customer. A role says who a user is; most real questions are about what they can do to one specific thing, inside one specific organisation. Encoded as role checks, every new requirement becomes a code change in many places. We model permissions as data, check them in one place, and test them like any other logic.
Should we use an auth provider or build our own?+
Use a provider for identity: passwords, magic links, SSO and multi-factor. It is a solved problem and getting it wrong is expensive. Authorisation, meaning what a signed-in user may do, is specific to your product and usually belongs in your own code and database. We wire the first to the second and keep the line between them clear.
How do you handle multi-tenancy?+
Usually one database with a tenant ID on every row, enforced in one place: Postgres row-level security, or a data-access layer every query has to pass through, rather than each handler remembering. A separate database per tenant is sometimes right, for one very large customer or strict isolation, and we will say if that applies to you.
Where does it get hosted?+
Wherever suits your team. Vercel is the least effort for Next.js and fine for most platforms. If cost or long-running background work make that awkward, we run it in containers on Railway, AWS or your own Kubernetes. The repository, the cloud accounts and the bill are in your name either way.
What do enterprise customers ask for, and can you build it?+
Single sign-on through SAML or OIDC, audit logs, role management, session controls, encryption and data export. We build each of them into the platform and help you answer the technical questions on a customer's checklist accurately, so the security conversation speeds the deal up instead of stalling it.