⬡ About DevProton
We are a senior engineering pod.
We embed with your team.
DevProton is a dual-base engineering studio — Riyadh for Gulf operations, Lahore for the engineering bench. 9-hour overlap with US East Coast and EU. 53+ combined years. Production-ready, not pilot.
53+
Years combined
100K+
Users scaled
99.9%
Uptime avg
Why we exist
Senior operators.Not juniors with templates.
DevProton was founded in 2026 by Sohaib Hamid (CEO), Saad Ali (COO), and Rizwan Arshad (CTO) after a decade of watching talented founders burn runway on junior dev shops that over-promised and under-shipped. We built DevProton to be the team we wished we could hire — a senior engineering pod that embeds inside your product and treats your deadlines as our own.
Our dual-base model is intentional. Riyadh handles Gulf operations — enterprise relationships, on-site discovery, and Saudi-market context. Lahore is the engineering bench — senior developers who ship production code daily, not slide decks. A 9-hour overlap with US East Coast and EU means your standups happen in real-time, not async threads two days later.
We focus on three verticals — Martech, Healthcare, and Custom SaaS — because depth beats breadth. We know the compliance pressures, the data shapes, and the scale failure modes that come with each. When you brief us, you are briefing people who have shipped in your domain before. Production-ready, not pilot.
The pod
Every person.
Senior. Hands-on. Accountable.
We are a multi-disciplinary pod of co-founders and senior contributors. No juniors, no delegation chains. The person you meet in discovery is the person who ships your code.
Sohaib Hamid
CEO & Co-Founder
Twelve years across product management, product engineering, and QA. Sohaib leads strategy, customer engagements, and the product roadmap at DevProton.
- PM + Product Engineering + QA background
- Translates ambiguous founder problems into shipped product
- Owns customer relationships end-to-end
Saad Ali
COO & Co-Founder
Eleven years building software across the stack. Saad runs delivery, ops, and ensures every engagement ships on time, on budget, and on scope.
- 11+ years full-stack engineering
- Owns delivery cadence and project execution
- Clients see Saad in every status review
Rizwan Arshad
CTO & Co-Founder
Lead backend engineer specializing in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and AI/LLM platforms. Past systems scaled to 100K+ users and 99.9% uptime. Rizwan acts as fractional CTO for early-stage clients.
- Python · FastAPI · Django · AWS · GCP · Terraform
- Built generative AI pipelines reducing manual work by 70%
- Reduced API latency from 800ms to <300ms at scale
Hira Tahir
Head of Product
Eight years driving product strategy and execution. Hira translates customer interviews into roadmaps, prioritization, and crisp specs that engineers can build from.
- 8+ years senior product management
- Discovery, prioritization, and stakeholder alignment
- Owns the spec-to-shipped pipeline
Sehrish Hameed
Design Lead
Thirteen years of UI/UX design across SaaS, marketing platforms, and consumer apps. Sehrish leads our design system, product design, and user research engagements.
- 13+ years UI/UX design
- Design systems · prototyping · user research
- Designs that survive contact with real users
How we work
First principles.
No cargo cult.
Every decision we make is grounded in physics-level thinking. We reason from the bottom up, not the top down.
Make the invisible visible
Progress, blockers, decisions — we surface everything. No surprises at delivery.
Ship under pressure
Deadlines are real. We build systems that can be shipped even when conditions are imperfect.
Measure, don't guess
Every architectural and design decision is traceable to a reason. We don't build on instinct alone.
Leave the codebase better than we found it
We inherit messy code all the time. We return clean code every time.
Where we work
Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
Client-facing hub for the GCC region.
Lahore
Pakistan
Engineering core and delivery centre.
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