We build the software your operations run on
Kestrel is a 140-person engineering team in Dubai Internet City that designs, builds and modernises platforms for logistics, retail and financial services companies across the GCC.
- cloud spend for Qafila Express
- −38%
- from kickoff to first release
- 6 weeks
Trusted by teams at
- Qafila Express
- Ruwaq Bank
- Ghaf Markets
- Lumen Energy
- Brightway
- Marfa Freight
- Tamra Foods
- Copperline
What we do
Small senior teams that own the outcome, from first discovery to running in production.
Platform modernisation
We move ageing systems to modern architecture one slice at a time, without a risky big-bang rewrite.
- Monolith to services
- Cloud migration
- Data platform rebuilds
Product engineering
A full product team (design, engineering and delivery) that builds new products with you.
- Discovery and prototyping
- Web and mobile apps
- APIs and integrations
Cloud and reliability
We cut cloud bills, fix flaky systems and set up the monitoring your on-call team deserves.
- Cost reviews
- Platform reliability
- Security hardening
Team augmentation
Senior engineers who join your team, raise the bar and leave it stronger.
- Tech leads
- Platform engineers
- Coaching
Recent work
All case studies-
Qafila ExpressLogistics
A routing platform that handles peak season without a war room
- cloud spend
- −38%
- peak throughput
- 4×
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Ruwaq BankFinancial services
Moving a 15-year-old payments core to the cloud, one slice at a time
- minutes of downtime
- 0
- months to full cutover
- 9
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Ghaf MarketsRetail
A new stock app that store teams actually like using
- on-shelf availability
- +22%
- staff app rating
- 4.7
Industries we know
We focus on three sectors, so we arrive knowing how your business works.
What clients say
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They behaved like owners from day one. Peak season was the quietest it’s ever been.
Rhea MalikCTO, Qafila Express
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We’d been told a rewrite was the only option. Kestrel showed us another way and delivered it.
Faisal Al ShamsiCOO, Ruwaq Bank
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The best engineers we’ve worked with, and the easiest people to have in a room.
Sara NasserVP Product, Ghaf Markets
Insights
All insightsNotes from the work: what we’ve tried, what broke and what we’d do again.
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The strangler fig pattern, without the folklore
Replacing a system slice by slice is the safest way to modernise. Here’s what the diagrams leave out.
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Where your cloud bill actually goes
What we found in 27 cloud cost reviews: the same five causes, and the order to fix them in.
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Fixed price or time and materials? An honest comparison
Fixed price feels safer. Sometimes it is. Here’s how we decide which to offer, and why we usually start with both.
Have a platform that needs to move faster?
Tell us where you are. We’ll reply within a day with a few honest options.