About / Team
The bench

42 senior
engineers.
One bar.

42 in-house engineers. No subcontractors, no rented bench. Hired against a bar most agencies can't pay for — and held to it on every project.

42
in-house
7+ yrs
avg. exp.
7%
hire rate
TRUSTED BY TEAMS AT
Leadership

Three operators
running the company.

Featured · Founder01 / 03
Umar Abdullah

Umar Abdullah

CEO & Founder

Eleven years in software engineering. 600+ projects shipped. Rebuilt Entalogics around AI-augmented development in 2023 — and runs senior-engineering judgement on every project that ships.

11+
years
600+
projects
$40M+
client ARR
Read the founder story
Daniyal Ahmed

Daniyal Ahmed

Chief Operating Officer
02 / 039 yrs

Runs delivery across every project. Owns scoping, estimation and the project-management standard that keeps 32 active engagements on rails.

FocusDelivery & client ops
Ahmed Abdullah

Ahmed Abdullah

Head of Marketing
03 / 038 yrs

Built the brand and the inbound engine. Owns positioning, recognition, and the founder-direct sales motion.

FocusBrand & growth
Bench composition

What 42 senior
engineers looks like.

Most agencies stack juniors at the bottom of a pyramid. We don't hire that pyramid. Three quarters of the bench has 7+ years.

Seniority distribution
21%
52%
26%
Principal / Lead9 eng.21%
Senior (7+ yrs)22 eng.52%
Mid (4-6 yrs)11 eng.26%
Junior0 eng.0%
Zero juniors on client work. We've trained juniors before; we don't bill clients for that training.
Stack distribution% of bench
Frontend (React, Vue, TS)10 eng24%
Backend (Node, Python, Go, .NET)13 eng31%
AI / ML (LLM, Agents, RAG)5 eng12%
Mobile (Flutter, RN, Swift, Kt)7 eng17%
Desktop / Chromium (C++, Rust)3 eng7%
DevOps / Cloud (AWS, GCP, K8s)6 eng14%
QA · Security · Design · PM5 eng12%
The hiring bar

What it takes
to make this bench.

Six rounds. 7% offer rate. We turn down faster than we hire — because the bar is the product.

01
100%

Application

Resume + 2 case studies + writing sample.

We read everything. No keyword filters, no ATS auto-rejects.
02
38%

Technical screen

90-minute paired session with a Lead. Real problem from our archive.

No leetcode. No whiteboards. We watch how you reason out loud.
03
21%

Take-home

Three-day asynchronous build. Limited scope; we pay for the time.

Reviewed by 2 senior engineers, blind. Code quality > cleverness.
04
12%

Architecture round

Two hours with the founder. Design a system from a one-line brief.

We're looking for judgement, not memorization.
05
9%

Bar-raiser

A senior engineer outside the team gets veto power.

If they're not a clear yes, the answer is no.
06
7%

Offer

Out of every 100 applicants, 7 join the bench.

Senior-only roles. No backfilling juniors into the pyramid.
“The bar is the product. Compromise it once and you're running a different company.
Umar Abdullah
CEO & Founder
Where we are

Three cities,
five time zones.

Mostly Pakistan-based with a small remote pool in EU and US for late-Pacific overlap. Live overlap with most clients in Europe and East Coast US every working day.

01

Islamabad

HQ

Pakistan

18eng.
FunctionHQ
TimezonePKT (UTC+5)
OverlapEU AM · US PM
02

Lahore

Pakistan

14eng.
FunctionEngineering
TimezonePKT (UTC+5)
OverlapEU AM · US PM
03

Karachi

Pakistan

8eng.
FunctionEngineering
TimezonePKT (UTC+5)
OverlapEU AM · US PM
04

Remote

EU + US

2eng.
FunctionSpecialists
TimezoneCET / EST
OverlapLocal hours
Daily overlap window · based on PKT working hours
PKT working hoursEU overlap (12:00-18:00 PKT)US overlap (17:00-21:00 PKT)
The receipts

Trusted across
the platforms that score this work.

The same bench, third-party verified. 600+ public reviews, 5.0 average, six years on Upwork Top Rated Plus.

TOP RATED PLUS
Upwork
600+ jobs · 5.0
FEATURED 2025
Clutch
Top developers list
FEATURED 2025
GoodFirms
Verified agency
INDEPENDENT
Contra
Founder-direct work
30 UNDER 30
Connected Pakistan
Beyond Innovation panel
Brief the bench

Tell us what
you're building.

Thirty minutes with the founder. We'll pick the right slice of this bench, propose a shape, and tell you honestly if we're wrong for the job.