Top 5% offshore engineers, evidence-checked before you meet them, working your US hours and accountable through release.
Riseup leadership · 01
Marek Flejszman
Senior Director, Engineering
01 Evidence before introduction
02 Overlapping US working hours
03 Accountable through release
React
.NET
Python
AWS
Azure
Kubernetes
PostgreSQL
TypeScriptAn evidence-led filter
We verify technical depth, judgement, communication and delivery history before asking for your interview time.
Advance through the evaluation
Top0%
The pool behind every introduction
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Applicants reviewed per cycle
Fast introduction
0 min
To meet an available pre-vetted engineer
Subject to availability. This is a first meeting, not a guaranteed hire or completed onboarding.
Best-fit placement
0 days
For deliberate best-fit placement
Time for careful matching, your interviews and structured onboarding.
Most offshore hiring is a gamble on a CV and a good interview day. We built Riseup Asia around the filter, not the pitch — only the top 5% get through. You meet engineers who already proved it. Nobody else reaches you.
Watch
A straight look at how we work — told by the people who run it.
Tap the video for sound — the story is better told by the people who run it.
No pitch deck, no stock footage — a straight look at how Riseup Asia vets engineers, runs the assessment stages, and embeds senior talent into product teams.
It costs the sprints that follow: rework, missed commitments, long silences and code your team cannot maintain after the contract ends.
Problem view selected. Wrong hire shipped.
What we do
Staff augmentation, MVP and product development, a dedicated offshore team, or modernization. Each model brings senior ownership, visible review gates and the same delivery discipline.
Senior engineers who join your stack, take ownership and contribute in the first sprint.
Team slots
Illustration of a team slot board: backend, frontend and QA seats filled with senior engineers and daily overlap hours, plus one open seat scoped with the client.
From blank page to live product: discovery, architecture, launch, and the boring parts after.
Delivery track
Discovery
Scope + wireframe
Architecture
Stack decisions
Build
Milestone delivery
Launch
Release checks
After
The boring parts
Illustration of a five-step delivery track: discovery, architecture, build, launch and post-launch care.
Production AI, not demos: retrieval pipelines, agent workflows, evaluation harnesses, cost and latency budgets.
Pipeline
p95 latency
Tracked per release
Cost per run
Budgeted, not guessed
Illustration of an AI pipeline: sources feed retrieval, then an agent, then an evaluation gate that must pass before production, with latency and cost tracked.
Fix the foundation while the business keeps running. Legacy untangled, debt paid down, zero-downtime rollouts.
Before
Tangled monolith
Manual deploys
No test signal
Unknown debt
After
Modular services
Automated pipeline
Tests as gates
Debt paid down
The business keeps running the whole way through.
Before and after comparison: a tangled monolith with manual deploys becomes modular services with an automated pipeline and tests as gates.
Not sure which engagement fits? An engineering leader will scope the risks, team shape and next step with you.
The filter, visualised
This is how we vet offshore developers before they consume your team’s time. Technical ability, judgement, communication and delivery evidence are tested before an introduction.
Select a layer to inspect
Apex = the shortlist you actually meet
Complete filter
Select any layer to inspect what candidates must prove before they move closer to your team.
Our talent network
Meet people across engineering, research and design, and review the skills relevant to your work.
Showing 9 profiles. Profile 1 of 9.
Senior Full-stack Engineer
Asia · UTC+6
Builds full-stack products with a backend-first approach across services, interfaces and relational data.
Best fit
Backend-led web products that need one engineer across the stack.
Platform & DevOps Engineer
Asia · UTC+6
Builds repeatable cloud platforms, deployment pipelines and infrastructure operations.
Best fit
Teams standardising cloud delivery and production operations.
Applied AI Engineer
Asia · UTC+8
Develops retrieval, evaluation and agent workflows with clear engineering boundaries.
Best fit
Applied AI products moving from experiment to a testable workflow.
Python Software Engineer
Asia · UTC+6
Backend-focused engineer building Python and Django systems, APIs and pragmatic product interfaces.
Best fit
Backend-led products, automation and privacy-conscious AI features.
Research contributor in secure traceability systems.
AdTech & Java Expert
Asia · UTC−4
Software architect specialising in Java platforms, distributed services and advertising technology.
Best fit
High-throughput backend platforms and complex AdTech systems.
Public engineering work includes software architecture and open-source repositories.
Python Researcher
Asia · UTC+6
Applied researcher working across data science, machine learning and computer-vision experiments.
Best fit
Evidence-led AI research, experimentation and data-intensive product questions.
Published research includes human-action recognition and multiclass text classification.
Website Designer & Funnel Strategist
Asia · UTC+6
Designs and builds conversion-focused websites and funnels from wireframe through responsive delivery.
Best fit
Businesses improving lead capture, positioning and conversion paths.
Public portfolio work spans WordPress, Divi and GoHighLevel delivery.
Engineering leader connecting technical discovery, team direction and dependable product delivery.
Best fit
Complex engagements that need a bridge between business goals and engineering teams.
Public experience includes software leadership and large-team project delivery.
Software architect leading AI-enabled platforms, enterprise systems and advertising technology.
Best fit
Enterprise architecture, AI platforms and technically demanding product builds.
Selected portfolio work: Validata, AutoUT and PersonalVPN. Alim’s past work, not with Riseup Asia.
Need a specialist who can own the problem?
Tell us the role and delivery risk. We’ll return with a relevant shortlist, not a catalogue of CVs.
We can sign your lawyer-approved custom NDA for every assigned developer before access or onboarding.
How we work
Five accountable gates from first conversation to long-term care. Scope, risk and release evidence stay visible before work moves forward.
Fixed scope: agreed estimate, milestones and payments before development.
Flexible engagement: rolling priorities, hourly delivery and the same specialist checks.
We gather the business and technical requirements, then turn them into a written scope and Figma wireframe so everyone sees the same product before estimation begins.
Specialists evaluate scope, risk, time and cost. For fixed work, we agree the estimate, milestone plan and payment schedule before delivery starts.
The team works in visible milestones. UX, UI and engineering outputs are checked by the specialist responsible for the next stage before handoff.
QA, accessibility, security, performance and release checks must pass before deployment. Each milestone is reviewed before its payment is released.
After launch, we can continue with support, monitoring and planned improvements. Flexible or hourly engagements use the same review gates with a rolling scope.
The difference
Low rates do not recover missed sprints, weak handovers or senior time spent repairing avoidable work. Riseup Asia competes on proven judgement, direct access and accountable delivery.
Evidence before introduction. Review before handoff.
Pay for engineering judgement and reliable delivery—not preventable rework.
Selected work
Products our engineers designed, built and published, alongside selected work from our Chief Software Engineer.
Alim’s past work, not with Riseup Asia.
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100% private, offline AI chat.
Most AI chat apps depend on the cloud, which raises privacy and data-control concerns. LLM Player runs models locally and lets people switch models easily in a fast, lightweight interface, so conversations stay on the device.
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Built for long conversations. No limits.
Fast, accurate speech-to-text in a simple interface. Convert audio to text, organise transcripts with ease and keep meetings, lectures, interviews and content sessions on record without a time cap.
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Scan, clone and manage repositories from one command-line tool.
A cross-platform, Windows-first Git repository scanner, manager and navigator built to catalogue, clone and operate across many repositories from one CLI.
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Workspace automation and deterministic macro execution in Chrome.
A Manifest V3 Chrome extension for workspace management, credit monitoring and AI-driven macro execution, supported by a modular script architecture and a Windows AutoHotkey sidecar.
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One-command development environment setup without manual installs.
An automated development-environment toolkit for configuring languages, databases, containers and local AI tooling through modular PowerShell and shell workflows.
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An opinionated, AI-first framework for predictable code quality.
A strict but adaptable engineering standards framework for Go, TypeScript, PHP, Rust and C#, designed around shallow control flow, testable code and consistent AI-assisted development.
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Concept artworkOrganise a personal movie and TV library from the terminal.
A cross-platform Go tool that scans local video folders, cleans filenames, fetches TMDb metadata, stores a library in SQLite and supports moving, renaming and undoing file operations.
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Concept artworkGame Engine
A project our Chief Software Engineer has worked on.
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Alim’s past work, not with Riseup Asia.
No-code AI testing for financial services.
A no-code AI testing platform for financial services that plugs into DevOps tooling and core banking systems such as Temenos, covering functional, regression, mobile, API and payments testing.
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Alim’s past work, not with Riseup Asia.
AI-generated unit tests for large Java and C# codebases.
An AI-powered unit test automation platform for large-scale Java and C# applications. It generates, runs and optimises tests, integrates with CI/CD and produces maintainable suites on enterprise codebases.
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Alim’s past work, not with Riseup Asia.
High-speed, no-logs VPN across 29 countries.
A secure, high-speed VPN service by WiTopia with 300+ servers across 29 countries, 256-bit AES encryption with 4096-bit key authentication, a strict no-logs policy and 24/7 in-house support.
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+5Detailed studies of AI delivery, engineering economics, and the human work behind reliable outcomes.
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Verified recommendations
Claudio C.
Engineering Leader · AI platforms serving 10M+ users
“Oversee and collaborate with multiple teams across high-complexity projects at intense pace with tight deadlines. A skillful professional bringing great results and kind communicator.”
Gabor Szekeres
Engineering Manager at Instructure
“One of the most committed members of my unit test automation team. Single-handedly drove the C# division, managing both engineering work and the developer bootcamp in parallel. I strongly recommend him.”
Alexander Netrebskii
CTO · Solutions Architect · Principal Engineer
“His way of organizing the knowledge base, architecture decisions, and innovation mindset were reasons of success. Alim always went out of his way to help the team.”
Gennady N.
CTO · Senior Software Architect · Cloud Native · AI
“I strongly recommend Alim as a deep-thinking and problem-oriented professional, which can bring great innovation ideas to any team.”
Trust
You keep full ownership. Security, access control, custom NDAs and IP transfer are working requirements in every engagement—not promises added after the sale.
Engineers commit directly to your GitHub or GitLab. We keep no code, models or production data on our infrastructure.
Managed laptops, vaulted secrets, reviewed production writes. No shadow access.
We can sign your lawyer-approved custom NDA for every assigned developer before access or onboarding. IP assignment is included; DPAs and BAAs are available on request.
Security checks in every sprint, senior review on every pull request, GDPR-aware handling.
A senior leader will assess it.
A focused 30-minute call with an engineering leader, not a salesperson. We define the technical risk, team shape and next step; scoped work receives a written proposal within 48 hours.
Direct inquiry
info@riseup-asia.com