A practitioner. An engineer. A builder. A strategist.
Four founders, four disciplines: a practising RCIC, a CTO, a Chief Compliance Officer who also leads product and ships code, and a CPO + CMO. Plus a small core team building alongside us from day one.
Four founders. Four disciplines.
We're a small founding team intentionally. Each of us holds the pen on one quarter of the product so decisions land fast and stay coherent. LinkedIn profiles are linked on every card, photos follow shortly.
Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant. Runs a tech-forward, non-conventional Canadian immigration practice staffed by 3 licensed RCICs with 15+ combined years of regulated practice. The firm builds its own internal tooling, automates wherever practice rules allow, and has handled 2,000+ Canadian immigration cases across 15+ streams. Specialises in business immigration, employer-driven pathways, complex cases, and rejected-case rework.
- Company vision + practice strategy
- IRCC pathway + practitioner perspective
- Founding Advisors + customer relationships
- External voice, content, partnerships, industry
Enterprise architect with 20+ years designing large-scale ERP, CRM, and integration platforms for global multinationals across India, the Middle East, Australia, and Canada. Domain spread across retail, banking, manufacturing, and logistics. Specialises in multi-tenant SaaS, cloud-native microservices, ERP modernisation, low-code automation, and DevSecOps at enterprise scale. Multiple enterprise-excellence awards.
- Technology direction + architecture
- Engineering standards + code quality
- Platform reliability, security, and uptime
- Build-vs-buy + integration decisions
Senior data engineer with 8+ years across financial services and insurance for tier-1 banks in Canada and India. Brings the same schema rigor and audit-trail discipline that banking compliance demands into ExpatReady's platform. Builds on big-data architectures (Spark, Scala, Hive, Kafka, Python) and writes platform code alongside the core development team day-to-day.
- CICC compliance + audit defensibility
- Data governance + PIPEDA posture
- Product specifications + configurator domain
- Day-to-day code delivery with the dev team
Senior digital transformation leader with 15+ years driving enterprise change across global tier-1 banks, financial services, and consulting firms in Canada, the US, UK, UAE, and India. Specialises in core banking modernisation, CRM and BPM transformation, AML and compliance automation, and credit-origination redesign. Has built Business Analysis Centers of Excellence and led multi-million-dollar transformation portfolios across continents.
- Product strategy + roadmap prioritisation
- Brand, positioning, and storytelling
- Pricing, packaging, and revenue model
- Go-to-market + demand generation
The people we ship with every day.
The day-to-day delivery team. Three of the founders wear two hats here, leading the company AND writing the code, alongside the early team. We hire slowly and only when the role is obvious.
Co-founder and CEO who introduces every feature, writes the practitioner requirements, designs the UI, and ships the front-end code. The full path from "a practising RCIC needs this" to "it shipped in the next release" runs through his keyboard.
- Feature roadmap + requirements
- UI design + front-end implementation
- Practitioner UX decisions
- Visual system + brand application
Co-founder and CTO. Owns the platform architecture end-to-end: how the modules connect, how data flows, how it scales. Reviews every significant design before code lands, and writes the hard pieces himself.
- End-to-end platform architecture
- Module + integration design
- Tech standards + code review
Co-founder and CCO, embedded in the dev team as a backend developer. Ships APIs, data models, and the audit + compliance layer alongside Arun and the rest. Banking-grade rigor on every endpoint.
- Server-side APIs + data layer
- Audit + compliance pipelines
- Backend release readiness
On the ExpatReady journey from day one. 3+ years across application support and technical business analysis. Translates practitioner conversations into BRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria, then runs every release against them. Also configures Zoho, Jotform, and monday.com integrations for an immigration practice in parallel.
- QA strategy + release sign-off
- BRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria
- Practice CRM configurations (Zoho · Jotform · monday.com)
- Regression test suite
Brings serious depth in AI engineering, application security, lean architecture, multi-tenant data isolation, and core backend development. Business Analyst foundation (PMP, Scrum Master) layered under an engineering stack picked up through self-built projects in Python, SQL, and PostgreSQL. Owns the AI and security layers on the platform, ships features alongside the rest of the team.
- AI + assistant integration
- Application security posture
- Multi-tenant isolation patterns
- Backend feature development
- Working with Vaibhav on test + sign-off
Founding Advisors shaping ExpatReady from the outside in.
Ten Founding Advisors total. RCICs, principals, operators, and partners with sharp opinions on Canadian immigration practice and the operational reality of running it. We close the cohort at 10 and lock the roster.
Senior Quality Analyst with 15+ years across insurance, claims, real-estate technology, and large-scale transportation systems. ISTQB-certified. Also a partner at a Canadian immigration practice, which gives him direct line of sight into the workflow problems ExpatReady is solving for.
Operators, RCICs, principals, and partners with sharp opinions on Canadian immigration practice.
See program termsOperators, RCICs, principals, and partners with sharp opinions on Canadian immigration practice.
See program termsOperators, RCICs, principals, and partners with sharp opinions on Canadian immigration practice.
See program termsOperators, RCICs, principals, and partners with sharp opinions on Canadian immigration practice.
See program termsOperators, RCICs, principals, and partners with sharp opinions on Canadian immigration practice.
See program termsOperators, RCICs, principals, and partners with sharp opinions on Canadian immigration practice.
See program termsOperators, RCICs, principals, and partners with sharp opinions on Canadian immigration practice.
See program termsOperators, RCICs, principals, and partners with sharp opinions on Canadian immigration practice.
See program termsOperators, RCICs, principals, and partners with sharp opinions on Canadian immigration practice.
See program termsThink you belong in the remaining 9 Founding Advisor slots?
Full program terms, deal structure, and the application live on the Founding Advisors page.
Four disciplines. Clear ownership lines.
A small team forces clarity. Here's the explicit split of who owns which part of the platform, including the Operations function we hire into as we scale.
RCICs
- IRCC pathway taxonomy
- Logical Sections + rules
- Practitioner UX
Engineering
- Workflow processor
- Audit interceptors
- Stripe + IRCC integrations
Compliance
- CICC-aware compliance
- Audit defensibility + logging
- Data governance + PIPEDA
Product + GTM
- Roadmap + specs
- Brand + positioning
- Pricing + go-to-market
Ten firms co-designing the product alongside us.
We're hand-picking 10 Canadian immigration firms, RCICs and Immigration Lawyers, for a 6-month advisory engagement. ExpatReady free for life + lifetime royalty income + lifetime referral income on every firm you refer. The roster is invitation-only and posted publicly only after sign-off.
1 filled, 9 remaining. We close the cohort at 10 and lock the roster.
Hiring slowly. Talking to everyone.
We're a small team and hiring deliberately. If you're an RCIC, Immigration Lawyer, full-stack engineer, or product designer who's spent time inside Canadian immigration practice, write to us. We read everything.
The operating system Canadian immigration practice deserves.
From $199 CAD/seat (annual). Unlimited cases. Unlimited client-portal users. No per-form or per-case fees. White-glove migration included with Practice tier and above.