About the firm

Built by people who have run this before.

Blocks N Bytes Technologies was founded on a simple observation: the Gulf has no shortage of technology vendors, and a serious shortage of technology judgement.

Our position

Two disciplines, held to one standard.

The name is the method. Blocks is the structural work — enterprise architecture, ERP, standard operating procedures, the documented foundations an organisation stands on. Bytes is what moves across them — data, applications, security, demand. Firms in this market usually do one competently and the other as an afterthought. We treat them as a single discipline because that is how they fail.

We are deliberately a senior firm. There is no large junior bench waiting to absorb your budget after the proposal is signed, and no incentive to extend a programme past the point of value. Our founding partners carry between fifteen and thirty years each, and they remain on the work.

We operate from Dubai, we deliver in English and Arabic, and we build for the regulatory and operational reality of the UAE rather than retrofitting a template designed for another market.

  • 30+Years of senior leadership
  • 8Core delivery capabilities
  • AR·ENBilingual delivery standard
  • UAEDubai-based engineering

Leadership

The people accountable for your programme.

Every engagement is sponsored by one of these five. Not a delegate, not an account manager — one of these five, by name, in your steering documentation.

Sanjay Tayal

Founder / Senior Board Advisor

30+ Years of Enterprise Technology Leadership

Three decades spent building and governing enterprise technology functions across the Gulf and South Asia. Sanjay sets the firm’s engineering standards and chairs the review board that signs off every architecture we put into production.

Governance · Architecture Review · Client Advisory

Sudeept Agarwal

Executive Partner / Strategic Growth

Commercial Strategy & Regional Partnerships

Sudeept leads commercial strategy and the partnerships that give our clients regional reach. He works closest with boards deciding whether a technology programme is worth funding at all.

Growth Strategy · Partnerships · Board Engagement

Deepak Mallick

Executive Partner / Technology Infrastructure

Infrastructure, Cloud & Operational Resilience

Deepak is responsible for the layer clients only notice when it fails. Infrastructure design, cloud estate governance and the recovery capability that turns an incident into an inconvenience.

Cloud Estate · Resilience · Infrastructure Security

Bharat Vashist

Technology & AI Director

17+ Years in IT Technologies & Agentic AI Systems

Bharat leads the firm’s engineering and applied AI practice, including the agentic systems we deploy inside client operations. His standing rule: automation is only introduced where the underlying process is already sound.

Engineering · Agentic AI · Platform Architecture

How we work

Six commitments we put in writing.

  • Senior people on the actual work

    The engineers who scope your programme are the engineers who build it. Nothing is quietly handed down to a junior bench after the proposal is signed.

  • Written before built

    Architecture, scope and acceptance criteria are documented and signed off before development starts — which is why our change requests are rare and our estimates hold.

  • You own everything

    Source code, cloud accounts, domains, store listings and documentation are registered to you from day one. There is no commercial leverage in holding your assets hostage.

  • Built for the UAE context

    VAT treatment, WPS payroll, PDPL obligations, Arabic RTL and free-zone structures are designed in from the start — not discovered during user acceptance testing.

  • Plain answers

    If a project should not be built, or should be built smaller, we say so in the first meeting. That has cost us work and earned us clients who stay a decade.

  • We stay after launch

    Support agreements, monitoring and a quarterly roadmap review are part of the standard engagement. Launch day is a milestone, not an exit.

Request a Consultation

Meet the team directly.

An introductory conversation carries no cost and no obligation. If it turns out we are not right for the work, we will say so in that first meeting.

Request an introduction

Tell us briefly what you are working on and we will arrange the right person to speak with you.