WHO WE ARE
Built by practitioners,
for enterprises that
cannot afford to fail
Midships is a specialist identity and security consultancy founded in 2018 by three ex-consulting practitioners who believed there was a fundamentally better way to deliver complex IAM programmes.
We specialize in enterprise Identity and Access Management for regulated industries — banking, insurance, government, and healthcare across Asia Pacific, the United Kingdom, and the Middle East.
We are a remote-first team of engineers, architects, and product specialists. Every engagement is led by the people doing the work — not account managers or project coordinators who sit between you and the expertise you are paying for.
We have been recognised by Ping Identity as Better Together Partner of the Year 2025, Delivery Excellence Award winner for Asia Pacific 2024, and ForgeRock APAC Best Systems Integrator 2022/23.
70M+
Identities secured
18+
Enterprise clients
7+
Years delivering IAM
Our Story
Founded to solve a problem the big four kept making worse
In 2018, Ajit Gupta had spent over two decades delivering complex IT programmes across regulated industries. He kept seeing the same pattern: large consultancies reinventing the wheel on every IAM engagement — adding complexity, extending timelines, and leaving clients with brittle, bespoke platforms that were difficult 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 an opportunity: bring predictability and deep expertise to IAM by being technology-first rather than sales-first — building accelerators that encoded hard-won knowledge into reusable, repeatable frameworks.
He brought together Juan Redondo — a specialist IAM architect he had worked with since 2017 — and Taweh Ruhle, a close colleague and technology generalist who had been delivering DevSecOps programmes since 2003. Three practitioners, all ex-consulting, all aligned on building a firm that recognised and rewarded talent on capability — not geography, not seniority, not billability.
KEY MILESTONES
Midships founded
Ajit, Juan, and Taweh establish Midships in Singapore. Technology-first, zero downtime delivery from day one.
ForgeRock APAC Best Systems Integrator
Recognised as the leading ForgeRock delivery partner in Asia Pacific. First major industry award.
Midships Group formed
Entities established in Singapore, Malaysia, and India to support global operations and client delivery.
Ping Delivery Excellence Award — Asia Pacific
Recognised by Ping Identity for delivery excellence across Southeast Asia. ProofID partnership announced.
Better Together Partner of the Year
Won Ping's Better Together Award at PingYOUniverse 2025. Icebreaker patent filed.
Midships Group — products and AI governance
Icebreaker and Accelerators launched as licensable products. AI governance capability established alongside IAM practice.
"We had all had fruitful careers in consulting. There were many things we liked and some things we disliked. We wanted to build a practice that was focused on customer outcomes and that rewarded people based on what they could do — not where they happen to live."
THE FOUNDERS
Three practitioners. One shared vision.
Midships was built by people who have spent careers in the field — not on pitch decks. The founding team brings over 60 years of combined experience in technology delivery, IAM, and DevSecOps.
Ajit Gupta
CEO and Co-Founder
Ajit has spent 25 years delivering complex IT programmes across regulated industries as a serial entrepreneur and technology leader. His career spans large-scale IAM implementations, cloud transformation, and DevSecOps delivery across Asia Pacific, the UK, and the Middle East. He founded Midships in 2018 after identifying a consistent failure mode in how the industry approached enterprise IAM — and building the firm he wished had existed. Ajit is the architect of Icebreaker and leads Midships' product and AI governance strategy.
Juan Redondo
Co-Founder and Director — IAM
Juan is a specialist IAM architect with deep expertise in Ping Identity, ForgeRock, and enterprise identity delivery. Ajit and Juan began working together in 2017 and quickly recognised a shared technical philosophy — that IAM programmes should be engineered with precision, not assembled from generic consulting playbooks. Juan leads Midships' IAM architecture practice and is the technical backbone of the firm's Ping consulting capability.
Taweh Ruhle
Co-Founder and Director — DevSecOps
Taweh is a technology generalist of rare breadth — someone who can solve almost any engineering challenge and has been doing it since 2003. Ajit met Taweh in 2003 and brought him into Midships as the third co-founder. 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 that are central to the Midships accelerators.
What We Stand For
The principles we built the firm on
These are not aspirational statements. They are the specific things we decided to do differently from the firms we came from.
Capability over geography
People at the same level are paid exactly the same — regardless of whether they live in Singapore or São Paulo. We built a global pay structure from day one because we believed it was 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 you need. Senior engineers and architects are accessible throughout every engagement — not just at proposal stage.
Customer outcomes, not billable hours
We measure success by what our clients achieve, not by how many hours we log. Our accelerators exist because they reduce the time and cost of getting clients to the outcomes they need — even when that means less work for us.
Transparency and technical honesty
We tell clients what we actually think — including when we think a different approach is better, or when 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. The goal is for the firm's collective knowledge to grow faster than any individual could grow it. 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 not luck — it is a delivery model built around rehearsal, rollback, and the conviction that zero downtime is not a premium option.
Clients
Trusted by leading banks and regulated enterprises
Our clients include tier-one financial institutions across Asia Pacific, the United Kingdom, and the Middle East.
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Midships, one of our highly focused, extremely technical implementation partners — very competent, very focused.
Andre Durand
CEO, Ping Identity
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With an aggressive timeline and limited budget, Midships' unique proposition underpinned by their accelerator and knowledge of containerised architectures gave us the confidence to choose them — a decision well made.
Alfonoso Tambunan
CTO, Jago Bank
Strategic partnership with ProofID
In 2024, Midships and ProofID — one of the leading Ping Identity partners in the UK and Europe — announced a strategic collaboration to deliver Ping Identity services worldwide. The partnership extends Midships' accelerators and delivery capability into markets beyond Asia, ANZ, and the UK, and brings ProofID's deep product expertise to Midships' clients in those regions. Together, the two firms cover the complete Ping Identity stack from architecture and deployment to managed operations globally.
Common questions
About Midships
Where is Midships based?
Midships Group is headquartered in Singapore, with entities in Malaysia and India. We are a remote-first team with regional presence across Australia, Singapore, the UAE, India, Ireland, and the UK. We operate across Asia Pacific, ANZ, the Middle East, and EMEA.
How is Midships different from a traditional consultancy?
Three things most clearly differentiate us. First, we are specialists — every engagement is led by engineers and architects with direct hands-on IAM experience, not generalist consultants with a methodology. Second, we deliver zero downtime as standard, not as a premium option. Third, our products are white box — clients receive full source code and are not locked in to Midships for ongoing changes. We were deliberately built to avoid the things the founders disliked about the firms they came from.
What is the ProofID partnership?
ProofID is a leading Ping Identity partner in the UK and Europe. In November 2024, Midships and ProofID announced a strategic collaboration to deliver world-class Ping Identity services globally — combining Midships' accelerators and APAC/Middle East delivery capability with ProofID's European expertise and coverage. Together the two firms cover the full Ping stack from architecture to managed operations across all major geographies.
Is Midships growing?
Yes. Midships is transitioning from a pure consulting model toward managed services, licensable products, and AI-native ventures under the Midships Group structure. Icebreaker — our patent-pending AI governance product — and the Accelerators are now available as standalone licensed products alongside our consulting and managed services. We are actively building the next stage of the firm.