Built by practitioners, for enterprises that cannot afford to fail.
Midships is a specialist identity and security firm founded in 2018 by three practitioners who believed there was a better way to deliver complex IAM. Today we help regulated enterprises trust the autonomous systems acting on their behalf, built on the identity and delivery foundations we already operate for them.
70M+ identities secured
18+ enterprise clients
8+ years in regulated production
5 countries
We specialise in enterprise Identity and Access Management for regulated industries, banking, insurance, government and healthcare, across Asia Pacific, the UK and the Middle East. We are a remote first team of engineers, architects and product specialists, and every engagement is led by the people doing the work, not account managers who sit between you and the expertise you are paying for.
We are boutique by choice and intend to stay that way. We are not trying to become the largest firm in our field. We are trying to be the one regulated enterprises call for the problems that are genuinely hard. We grow through the products and intellectual property we create, not through headcount.
Founded to solve a problem the big firms kept making worse.
By 2018, Ajit Gupta had spent over two decades delivering complex IT programmes across regulated industries. He kept seeing the same pattern. Large consultancies reinvented the wheel on every IAM engagement, adding complexity, extending timelines, and leaving clients with brittle, bespoke platforms that were hard to operate and impossible to upgrade without calling the consultancy back in.
At the same time, Kubernetes and DevSecOps were transforming how infrastructure could be delivered. Ajit saw the opportunity to bring predictability and deep expertise to IAM by being technology first rather than sales first, building accelerators that encoded hard won knowledge into reusable frameworks. He brought together Juan Redondo, a specialist IAM architect he had worked with since 2017, and Taweh Ruhle, a technology generalist who had been delivering DevSecOps since 2003. Three practitioners, all aligned on building a firm that rewarded people on capability, not geography, seniority or billability.
Identity became the proving ground, the hardest and least forgiving application of everything they believed about delivery. The world has moved on since. Software now acts on its own, at machine speed, and the challenge is no longer delivering or securing technology but trusting technology that can act on your behalf. That is the next chapter, and it rests on the same foundation as the first.
We had all had fruitful careers in consulting. We wanted to build a practice focused on customer outcomes, that rewarded people for what they could do, not where they happen to live.
Midships founded
Ajit, Juan and Taweh establish Midships. Technology first, zero downtime delivery from day one.
ForgeRock APAC Best Systems Integrator
An early industry recognition for delivery work in Asia Pacific.
Midships Group formed
Entities established in Singapore, Malaysia and India to support global operations and delivery.
Products and trusted autonomy
Icebreaker and the Accelerators launch as licensable products. Midships opens the Philippines, its sixth country.
Three practitioners. One shared vision.
Over 60 years of combined experience in technology delivery, IAM and DevSecOps.
Ajit Gupta
25 years delivering complex IT programmes across regulated industries as a serial entrepreneur and technology leader, spanning large scale IAM, cloud transformation and DevSecOps across Asia Pacific, the UK and the Middle East. He founded Midships in 2018 after identifying a consistent failure mode in enterprise IAM, and is the architect of Icebreaker, leading the firm's product and AI governance strategy.
Juan Redondo
A specialist IAM architect with deep expertise in enterprise IAM platforms like Ping/ForgeRock and enterprise identity delivery. Ajit and Juan began working together in 2017 around a shared conviction that IAM should be engineered with precision, not assembled from generic playbooks. Juan leads the IAM architecture practice and is the technical heart of the IAM consulting capability
Taweh Ruhle
A technology generalist of rare breadth who can solve almost any engineering challenge, and has been doing it since 2003. Taweh leads the DevSecOps practice that underpins everything Midships delivers, the GitOps pipelines, infrastructure as code frameworks, Kubernetes architectures and the zero downtime deployment models central to the accelerators.
Not aspirations. The specific things we decided to do differently from the firms we came from.
Capability over geography
People at the same level are paid the same, whether they live in Singapore or Sao Paulo. We built a global pay structure from day one because it is right, and because it is the only way to attract the best people globally.
Engineers in front
You speak directly to the people doing the work. There are no account managers between you and the expertise. Senior engineers and architects are accessible throughout every engagement.
Customer outcomes, not billable hours
We measure success by what clients achieve, not by hours logged. Our accelerators exist because they reduce the time and cost of reaching the outcome, even when that means less work for us.
Transparency and technical honesty
We tell clients what we actually think, including when a different approach is better or a timeline is unrealistic. We would rather have a difficult conversation early than an expensive one later.
Knowledge sharing
We document what we learn, share it internally, and encode it into accelerators. White box products are a direct expression of this. We share the code.
Zero downtime, always
For the enterprises we serve, an identity outage is a business incident. We have never caused one on a go live or upgrade. That is rehearsal, rollback and discipline, not luck.
International delivery relationship with ProofID
In 2024, Midships and ProofID began collaborating internationally to extend delivery coverage beyond Asia, ANZ and the UK. The relationship combines Midships' accelerators and delivery capability with ProofID's presence in Europe, giving clients broader geographic reach for enterprise identity engagements.
About Midships
Where is Midships based?
Midships Group is headquartered in Singapore, with registered entities in Singapore, Malaysia and India. We are a remote first team with people across Andorra, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and India, opening the Philippines in 2026, and we deliver across Asia Pacific, ANZ, the Middle East and EMEA.
How is Midships different from a traditional consultancy?
Three things. We are specialists, every engagement is led by engineers and architects with hands on IAM experience, not generalists with a methodology. We deliver zero downtime as standard, not as a premium. And our products are white box, clients receive the full source code and are not locked in to us for ongoing changes.
What is the ProofID partnership?
Midships and ProofID collaborate internationally, combining Midships' accelerators and Asia Pacific and Middle East delivery with ProofID's presence in Europe, to give clients broader geographic coverage for enterprise identity engagements.
Is Midships growing?
Yes. Midships is moving from a pure consulting model toward managed services, licensable products and AI native ventures. Icebreaker, our patent pending AI governance product, and the Accelerators are now available as licensed products alongside consulting and Guardian managed services.