SaaS / Enterprise Software

Scaling Engineering Capacity via an India GCC

A US-headquartered, Series C SaaS company could not hire senior engineers fast enough to meet its roadmap. Client name withheld under NDA. iAastha designed and stood up their Global Capability Center (GCC) in India as a fully owned engineering extension—not an outsourced vendor.

Scaling Engineering Capacity via an India GCC
50
Engineers Hired
65%
Lower Blended Cost
90
Days to Launch

The Challenge

Relying on scattered freelancers and agencies created inconsistent quality, knowledge loss, and IP exposure. The company needed a dedicated team working to the same standards, tools, and culture as headquarters—at a sustainable cost—without the legal and operational risk of building offshore from scratch.

Our Solution

We provided end-to-end GCC advisory: location and entity strategy, legal and compliance setup, a hiring framework targeting senior talent, security and IP controls, and an operating model that mirrored HQ rituals. We embedded governance so the India team integrated as one engineering organization from day one.

Technical Highlights

  • Entity, tax, and compliance setup for a wholly-owned India GCC
  • Senior-engineer hiring framework with structured technical assessment
  • Security and IP controls: SSO, device management, and access governance
  • HQ-aligned agile rituals, code standards, and on-call ownership
  • Knowledge-transfer and documentation playbooks to prevent silos
  • Retention program tuned to the Indian senior-engineer market

Technologies

React Go AWS Terraform PostgreSQL Redis

The Outcome

The India GCC reached full operation in about 90 days and now owns a significant share of the global engineering roadmap. Feature delivery roughly doubled, blended engineering cost fell ~65%, and senior-engineer retention stayed high—turning a hiring bottleneck into a durable capability.

“This isn't an offshore team—it's our team, in a different time zone. iAastha understood that culture and standards mattered as much as the code.”

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