ExalTechs brings Damascus's most experienced software engineers to organizations across Saudi Arabia and the Gulf — dedicated and managed teams covering the full development life cycle, backed by 15+ years of delivery for government and enterprise.
Powering digital transformation for leading organizations in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.
Engagement models
Two ways to work with us. One standard of delivery.
Keep control of the day-to-day, or hand us the outcome. Both models run on the same engineering discipline.
Dedicated team
You manage. We staff.
Hand-picked engineers integrated into your workflow, tools, and rituals — your stand-ups, your backlog, your Jira.
Engineers interviewed and approved by you
Full-time, exclusive to your product
Onboarded into your tooling within days
Replace or scale a role with two weeks' notice
Managed team
We own delivery.
ExalTechs provides PM, architecture, QA, and DevSecOps. You get outcomes, reporting, and SLAs.
Project manager and architect included
Sprint reports and a weekly steering call
Defined scope, milestones, and SLAs
Quality gates and security built in
Comparison of engagement models
Which one is right for you?
Dedicated team
Managed team
Control
Full — you run the team
Shared — you set priorities, we run delivery
Speed to start
1–2 weeks per role
2–3 weeks for a full team
Your overhead
You manage day-to-day
Minimal — one steering call a week
Best for
Teams with strong in-house leads
New products, fixed outcomes, tight timelines
Our team
Every role in the life cycle. One office in Damascus.
Thirteen-plus specialized roles across delivery, engineering, and AI & data — senior engineers who sit together, work Gulf hours, and stay with your product.
Delivery & Analysis
Project Managers
Business / System Analysts
UX / UI Designers
QC & Test Engineers
Engineering
Solution Architects
Backend / Frontend Developers
Mobile Developers
Cloud Developers
Cloud & Network Engineers
AI & Data
AI Developers
AI Enterprise Architects
Data Scientists
Data Engineers
BI Developers
Why Damascus
A city of craftsmen for thousands of years — steel, inlay, silk. Our engineers work from one office, not scattered across freelance platforms, so quality holds and knowledge stays.
Modern officeDedicated floors, meeting rooms, and quiet zones for focused engineering work.
Power & connectivity redundancyGenerators, battery backup, and multiple ISP links — outages never reach your sprint.
Secure infrastructureManaged devices, VPN access, and least-privilege policies aligned with client security requirements.
In-person culture and senior mentorshipEvery squad has a lead on the floor. Juniors grow fast; seniors stay.
Gulf time-zone alignmentSame working day as Riyadh, Dubai, and Kuwait — real-time collaboration, not overnight hand-offs.
Arabic / English bilingual teamsRequirements workshops, documentation, and UI copy handled natively in both languages.
14specialized roles
55%senior or lead
3 wksto 80% productivity
70%below Gulf market cost
AI & Data
From raw records to decisions — one governed platform.
Data foundation first, models and assistants on top. Proven in production for government and enterprise clients in the Gulf.
Machine learning & data scienceForecasting · anomaly detection · scoring
Data engineering & platformsLakehouse · pipelines · DAMA governance
BI & analyticsExecutive dashboards · self-service · KPIs
AI enterprise architectureStrategy · governance · responsible AI
Selected work
Solutions our team has delivered.
From enterprise portals to national platforms, AI assistants and data platforms — a selection of what our engineers have built for government and enterprise clients.
Government · Housing
Tanmwi — National Housing Platform
National platform for housing programs and beneficiary services: eligibility, applications, allocation and integrated payments, at citizen scale.
MicroservicesArabic UXIntegrationSLA ops
Enterprise · Digital workplace
Employee Hub
A single internal portal for HR services, requests, announcements and approvals — replacing scattered intranets and email workflows.
.NETReactAzure ADPower Automate
Government · Citizen engagement
E-Participation Platform
Consultations, surveys, ideas and petitions in one accessible platform, with moderation workflows and analytics for decision-makers.
AngularJavaWCAG AAAnalytics
AI · Analytics
Talk to Data — AI Assistant
Natural-language assistant that answers business questions from governed data: text-to-SQL, charts on demand, and cited sources, in Arabic and English.
LLMRAGText-to-SQLPower BI
AI · Document intelligence
AI Compliance Checker
Automated review of documents and submissions against regulations and policies, flagging gaps with explanations and audit trails.
Document AILLMRules engineAudit
Data platform · Governance
Modern Data Lake for Decision-Making
Lakehouse foundation unifying operational sources with a governed catalog, quality rules, and executive dashboards for evidence-based decisions.
LakehouseSparkDAMADashboards
Cloud · Landing zone
Azure Cloud Adoption
Cloud adoption program: landing zones, identity, networking, migration waves and FinOps guardrails, with security baked into the pipelines.
AzureTerraformDevSecOpsFinOps
Case study highlights
Government · Generative AI
National housing chatbot
Challenge
Millions of citizens asking the same eligibility and application questions across call centres and branches.
Solution
Arabic-first LLM assistant with RAG over policy documents, integrated with the housing platform and CRM.
62%tickets deflected
<3smedian answer time
24/7coverage
Chamber of commerce · Data platform
Data-driven decision-making platform
Challenge
Member, economic, and service data locked in a dozen systems with no shared definitions.
Solution
Governed lakehouse, DAMA-aligned catalog, early-warning models, and executive dashboards.
14sources unified
1version of the truth
Weeklyearly-warning signals
Enterprise · BI rollout
Enterprise BI rollout
Challenge
Leadership relied on manually compiled monthly reports that were outdated before they landed.
Solution
KPI framework, semantic layer, and self-service Power BI with row-level security across departments.
40+dashboards
Dailyrefresh instead of monthly
0spreadsheet reports
What clients say
"They joined our stand-ups on day one and shipped the first release in six weeks. It felt like an in-house team."
"The data platform gave our leadership a single set of numbers for the first time. Governance was built in, not promised later."
"Security reviews used to be our bottleneck. With their pipeline the gates run on every commit and audits became routine."
Process, standards & DevSecOps
How we deliver: seven stages, security in every one.
The order matters: architecture before code, QA inside every sprint, and support after release.
Tell us the roles. Get a proposed team and quote in 48 hours.
Every proposal is tailored: team composition by seniority, engagement model, delivery plan, and commercials — all rates significantly below Gulf and European market levels.
Can't find yours? Book a call or send a brief — we answer within one working day.
How fast can a dedicated team start?
Individual roles start within 1–2 weeks; a full managed team within 2–3 weeks. You interview and approve every engineer before kick-off.
Do your engineers work Gulf hours?
Yes. Our Damascus office runs on the same working day as Riyadh, Dubai, and Kuwait, so collaboration is real-time, not overnight hand-offs.
What engagement models do you offer?
Dedicated resources (you manage, we staff), managed teams (we own delivery with SLAs), fixed-price projects, and time & materials. Minimum engagement is three months.
Which roles can you provide?
Every role in the software life cycle: project managers, business and system analysts, UX/UI designers, QA engineers, solution architects, backend, frontend, mobile and cloud developers, DevSecOps, AI engineers, data scientists, data engineers, and BI developers.
How do you handle security and IP?
Every contract includes NDA and full IP assignment. Teams work on managed devices with VPN access and least-privilege policies; our DevSecOps pipeline applies SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, and secrets management on every commit.
Do you have experience with Gulf government projects?
Yes — 70+ projects and 120+ technical proposals across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, and Syria, including national housing platforms, e-participation, AI assistants, and data platforms for government and enterprise clients.
How we start
From brief to kick-off.
1
Send a briefShare the roles, model, and scope.
2
Proposed team in 48hCVs, cost estimate, and a start plan.
3
Interviews & approvalYou meet the engineers and approve the line-up.
4
Kick-off within 2 weeksTooling, access, and the first sprint planning.
From Syria to the world.
من سوريا إلى العالم
Damascus gave the world its steel and its patterns. We add software: teams that ship in Riyadh, Dubai, Kuwait, and beyond.
Damascus→ Riyadh→ Dubai→ Kuwait City→ Cairo→ your city
Contact
Let's build your team.
Tell us the roles and the model. You'll have a proposed team and a quote within 48 hours.