Who We Are

Engineers who build
things you own.

We build software that belongs to you — completely. Not a subscription. Not a shared tool. Yours. No one else's backend has access to it. No platform policy can take it away.

Avinash Chandel — Founder, Picaro Studio
Avinash Chandel
Founder, Picaro Studio
From the Founder

"Every founder deserves one thing they truly own and control — their software."

I started Picaro Studio with a single conviction: the businesses we build for should own their software the way they own property. When you build on a platform, you're a tenant. The landlord can raise the price, change the rules, or close the doors on a Tuesday afternoon — and your business is at the mercy of someone else's decision.

What we build is different. It's not a shared tool. There's no backend you don't control. There's no third-party with a backdoor into your data. What we hand over is yours — source code, infrastructure, credentials, documentation. All of it.

No platform can change a policy and take your business away
Your software is a custom asset — not a rented tool
Completely customisable, exactly how your business works
Built for founders who want to move fast and own their outcome
You can hand the code to any engineer in the world and they can run it
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Avinash Chandel
Founder · Picaro Studio
Our Philosophy

Software that's an asset.
Not a subscription.

A system built correctly the first time doesn't require maintenance. Edge-hosted, statically compiled, with minimal external dependencies — our systems run like infrastructure, not like software products that expire.

Our clients are global enterprises — real estate developers in India, fintech firms in the EU, manufacturing conglomerates, and US-based B2B SaaS companies — who have outgrown generic software and need engineering built for their specific operational reality.

We take 4–6 engagements per quarter. When we're on your project, we're fully on it. No junior handoffs. No context-switching.

4–6
Engagements per quarter
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Senior engineers
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Continents served
0
Maintenance retainers charged

"Software should be an asset, not a liability. We build it to last."

Most enterprise software becomes a drag over time. It slows down with every update. It accumulates technical debt. It requires an ever-growing team to maintain. We build differently.

Senior engineers on every task
Schema-first, always
No plugins. No shortcuts
Built to run without maintenance
You own the code, completely
Zero technical debt by design
The Team

Senior engineers. No juniors.

Every engagement is led and executed by senior engineers with production experience. You talk to the same people who write the code.

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Avinash Chandel
Founder

Founded Picaro on the belief that businesses should own their software completely. Oversees every client engagement and sets the engineering standard for what we ship.

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Rohan Kapoor
Systems Architect

12 years building distributed systems. Former SDE-III at a major Indian fintech. Specialises in edge architecture and high-throughput data pipelines.

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Arjun Pillai
Lead Backend Engineer

Ex-Stripe infrastructure engineer. Deep expertise in payment systems, compliance automation, and API design. Built the Bulwark deduplication engine.

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Sneha Menon
Frontend Systems Lead

Frontend engineer who treats UI as infrastructure. Built React applications serving 2M+ MAU. Specialises in edge-rendered interfaces and Web Vitals.

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Dhruv Verma
DevOps & Infrastructure

Infrastructure engineer with 8 years of production Cloudflare deployments. Manages CI/CD pipelines and zero-downtime deployment protocols.

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Priya Garg
Integration Specialist

6 years building integration layers between legacy ERP systems and modern APIs. Has integrated SAP, Oracle, Tally, and 30+ payment gateways.

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Engineering Principles

How we build

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You Own It. Completely.

When we're done, the software is yours. Full source code, architecture docs, deployment credentials. You can hand it to any engineer in the world and they can maintain it. No lock-in, no shared backend access — ever.

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Schema Before Code

We design data models before we write application code. The database schema is the contract. Everything else is implementation detail.

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Security by Architecture

Security isn't a layer added after launch. Static compilation, edge execution, and prepared statements eliminate entire categories of risk by design.

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Instrumentation by Default

Every system we deploy ships with observability: request timing, error rates, event logs, and health dashboards. You always know what your system is doing.

Limited Availability

Ready to own your software?

We're selective about who we work with. If you have a real problem and want a system that's truly yours — let's talk.