About us

Your partner for software and technical hiring.

StackHog is an IT services and technical hiring practice based in India. We help startups, growing businesses and agencies build software and find engineers.

What we do

Build your product. Grow your team.

Software & IT services

From architecture and product engineering to cloud, AI and ongoing support.

Explore services →

Technical hiring

Permanent hires and dedicated engineers, screened by people who understand the role.

Find engineers →

How we work

Clear scope. Visible progress.

Start with a defined project or a single role. Agree what success looks like, then decide whether to grow.

  1. Tell us what you need

    Share the problem, the role or the project. We agree the scope, cost and responsibilities before work starts.

  2. Review progress together

    For builds, see working software weekly. For hiring, review screened candidates and choose who joins.

  3. Take ownership

    Receive the code, documentation and handover. Continue with support only if you need it.

Ways to work together

Choose what fits your need.

Fixed scope, fixed price

Assessments, reviews, audits and well-defined builds.

Responsibilities & terms for Fixed scope, fixed price

We agree the scope and the number in writing before anything starts. A change of scope is a new quote, never a surprise invoice.

Billing
Quoted per engagement · 40% on start, balance on delivery
Responsibility
Ours. If it takes longer than we estimated, that is our problem.

Dedicated team

Ongoing product development with a moving backlog.

Responsibilities & terms for Dedicated team

Named engineers you interview, working to your backlog, your standups and your definition of done. Architecture oversight is included.

Billing
Monthly per engineer · quoted on the roles you need
Responsibility
Shared. Monthly, cancellable with notice — no annual lock-in.

Staff augmentation

Filling a specific gap in a team you already run.

Responsibilities & terms for Staff augmentation

We are the employer of record and handle statutory compliance; you direct the work day to day. International engagements are structured as offshore delivery, which is an export of services.

Billing
Monthly, as an agreed markup on cost · quoted per role
Responsibility
Yours to direct, ours to replace if performance is not there in month one.

Managed service or retainer

Anything that has to keep running after it is built.

Responsibilities & terms for Managed service or retainer

A monthly contract with named response targets, an escalation path and a monthly report on cost, availability and what changed.

Billing
Monthly retainer · quoted against the SLA
Responsibility
Ours, against the SLA written into the contract.

On builds: peer review, automated tests and security checks before release. You own the output on payment.

The people behind the work

A small practice. Direct access.

A small practice on purpose. The architect who scopes your work is the one who reviews what gets built, and the engineer who screens your candidates has done the job they are screening for.

Leadership

Sandeep Singh

FounderDelhi NCR, India

Founder at StackHog. A decade of shipping software for startups and high-growth companies, where the architecture has to survive contact with reality.

I work with founders, CTOs and technology leaders on the AI, data and software decisions that are expensive to reverse: what to build, how to architect it, what to automate, and what will still hold when the system scales.

My work spans agentic AI, GenAI, data platforms and modern application architecture. I stay close to the hard technical decisions and accountable for the outcome — from first principles to production.

  • IIM Calcutta Alumni
  • TOGAF 9.2
  • CSPO — Scrum Alliance, 2024–26
LinkedIn →
Registered name
StackHog Private Limited
Based in
India · IST (UTC+5:30)

Would rather be on this page than hire from it? Join our network →

Questions

The questions that come up on every first call.

Answered here rather than saved for a sales conversation. If the one you need is not on this list, ask it — a person reads the form and replies the same working day.

You publish your rates. Why does nobody else?

Because a range invites a negotiation and a quote invites a meeting. We would rather you self-select. Across both research rounds, none of the 20 IT services firms we studied published a price — so if the number is wrong for you, you have saved a call, and if it is right, the first conversation starts at scope instead of at price.

You list 55 services. Can one firm really do all of that?

Not simultaneously, and we do not pretend otherwise. Each service is tagged with the team it needs: some are delivered by the principal alone, some with one or two specialists, and some need a dedicated team we assemble for the engagement. If you ask for something we cannot staff well right now, we will say so and tell you when we could.

Why is recruitment in the same catalogue as software engineering?

Because it is the same buyer. The CTO who hires us for an architecture review is, three months later, trying to hire two engineers and failing. We already know what good looks like and can technically screen in a way a generalist recruiter cannot. TEKsystems, Accenture and Damco all put talent inside their services menu for the same reason.

How do you handle international staffing without an overseas placement licence?

We employ the engineer in India and supply their services to you remotely. That is an export of services rather than emigration, so the Emigration Act 1983 registration and its ₹20 lakh bank guarantee do not apply. Same engineer, same work, a completely different regulatory position — and it is zero-rated under GST with our LUT.

Will you tell us not to build something?

Regularly. A meaningful share of assessments conclude that an off-the-shelf tool does the job, that the data is not ready, or that the process should be fixed before it is automated. That answer goes in the report, in writing.

Are you certified? ISO 27001, SOC 2?

TOGAF 9 today. ISO 27001 implementation is underway and we will publish the certificate when it is issued rather than before. SOC 2 follows only if a concrete US enterprise deal requires it — roughly 70–80% of its controls overlap with ISO 27001, so doing them in that order is cheaper.

How do international clients pay, and is there GST?

Service exports from India are zero-rated under a filed LUT, so international invoices carry 0% GST. Payment arrives via Skydo or Wise with an automatic FIRA for your records. Indian clients are billed in INR plus 18% GST.

You are based in India. How does that work across time zones?

IST is UTC+5:30, which overlaps UK mornings comfortably and US East Coast mornings at the edge. We commit to specific overlap hours in the contract rather than promising round-the-clock availability we would not keep.

Next step

Start with one conversation.

Tell us what you need. We’ll help you choose a practical first step.