ExpatReady, Automate · Integrate · Immigrate
The team, Toronto, 2026

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.

Why this team
4 founders shipping
61+
years combined
across 4 founders
SS
Immigration18 yrs
PD
Engineering20 yrs
TV
Compliance + product8 yrs
RS
Product · GTM15 yrs
Domains covered
Canadian immigration practiceGlobal banking + financial servicesEnterprise architectureMulti-tenant SaaS · cloud-nativeData engineering + BI
RCIC·PMP®·PRINCE2·PSM I + II·MBAs (×3)·
Toronto · Brampton · Cambridge · Nagpur
Founding team

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.

SS
RCICToronto
Sanjay Singh
Co-Founder & CEO · RCIC
Tech-led RCIC firmRCIC licensed3-RCIC practice · 15+ yrs combinedBusiness immigrationMBA · Marketing + Finance

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.

Why this matters for ExpatReady
Nine years running a real Canadian immigration practice, drafting retainers, chasing documents, watching IRCC policy shift in real time. The IRCC taxonomy and rules library exist because he lived inside them.
Owns in the product
  • Company vision + practice strategy
  • IRCC pathway + practitioner perspective
  • Founding Advisors + customer relationships
  • External voice, content, partnerships, industry
Founding team
PD
EngineeringBrampton, Ontario
Pankaj Dev
Co-Founder · CTO
20+ yrsEnterprise architectureMulti-tenant SaaSMS Dynamics 365 + Power PlatformAzure · AWS · Google Cloud

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.

Why this matters for ExpatReady
Two decades architecting multi-tenant ERP, CRM, and integration platforms for global enterprises. Exactly the stack ExpatReady is, vertical SaaS over enterprise-grade rails, not a Frankenstein CRM.
Owns in the product
  • Technology direction + architecture
  • Engineering standards + code quality
  • Platform reliability, security, and uptime
  • Build-vs-buy + integration decisions
Founding team
TV
Compliance + ProductGreater Toronto Area
Tanu Verma
Co-Founder · CCO + Lead Product BA & Developer
8+ yrsCompliance + audit defensibilityData engineering + BIBanking + insuranceSpark · Scala · Python

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.

Why this matters for ExpatReady
Chief Compliance Officer for the CICC-aware compliance, audit, and data-governance layer. Banking-grade data engineering means schemas, logs, and reports that hold up under regulator scrutiny.
Owns in the product
  • CICC compliance + audit defensibility
  • Data governance + PIPEDA posture
  • Product specifications + configurator domain
  • Day-to-day code delivery with the dev team
Founding team
RS
Product & MarketingCambridge, Ontario
Ranjan Kumar Singh
Co-Founder · CPO & CMO
15+ yrsBanking + financial servicesCore banking · CRM · BPMEnterprise transformationPRINCE2 certified

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.

Why this matters for ExpatReady
Fifteen years shipping banking-grade CRM, BPM, and credit-origination programs at global tier-1 institutions. Has built ExpatReady-shaped platforms before, at much larger scale, and knows how to position them.
Owns in the product
  • Product strategy + roadmap prioritisation
  • Brand, positioning, and storytelling
  • Pricing, packaging, and revenue model
  • Go-to-market + demand generation
Founding team
Core team · building alongside

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.

5 on the dev team
SS
Product + Front-EndToronto, Ontario
Sanjay Singh
Product Lead, Designer + Front-End Developer
Co-founderFeature ideation + requirementsDesign + UXFront-end implementationPractice-led specs

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.

Why this matters for ExpatReady
The practitioner sits at the keyboard. Features, requirements, design, and front-end code are decided by the person who'll defend them in front of a real RCIC the next morning.
Owns in the product
  • Feature roadmap + requirements
  • UI design + front-end implementation
  • Practitioner UX decisions
  • Visual system + brand application
Founding team
PD
ArchitectureBrampton, Ontario
Pankaj Dev
Lead Architect
20+ yrsPlatform architectureMulti-tenant SaaSCloud-native design

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.

Why this matters for ExpatReady
Two decades of enterprise architecture means the patterns are battle-tested before they hit our codebase, not after.
Owns in the product
  • End-to-end platform architecture
  • Module + integration design
  • Tech standards + code review
Founding team
TV
Backend + DataGreater Toronto Area
Tanu Verma
Backend Developer
8+ yrsBackend + APIsData models + pipelinesSpark · Scala · Python

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.

Why this matters for ExpatReady
Backend logic and the compliance + audit pipelines are owned by the same person who'll defend them under regulator scrutiny.
Owns in the product
  • Server-side APIs + data layer
  • Audit + compliance pipelines
  • Backend release readiness
Founding team
VD
Quality + BANagpur, India
Vaibhav Dhopte
Lead QA & Technical Business Analyst
3+ yrsQuality + BRD ownershipZoho · Jotform · monday.comCloud + DevOps programs

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.

Why this matters for ExpatReady
Stress-tests every release before a single customer sees it. The reason features land clean is that he's already broken them himself, and written the BRD that put them there in the first place.
Owns in the product
  • QA strategy + release sign-off
  • BRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria
  • Practice CRM configurations (Zoho · Jotform · monday.com)
  • Regression test suite
Founding team
AK
AI + BackendToronto, Ontario
Arunoday Singh Kaushik
Backend Developer · AI + Security
Joined 2026AI engineeringApplication securityMulti-tenant designLean architectureBackend core devPMP® · Scrum Master

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.

Why this matters for ExpatReady
The harder backend problems land here. How the AI assists without inventing, how tenants stay isolated, how the security posture holds up under audit. Plus daily feature delivery.
Owns in the product
  • AI + assistant integration
  • Application security posture
  • Multi-tenant isolation patterns
  • Backend feature development
  • Working with Vaibhav on test + sign-off
Founding team
Founding Advisors · invitation-only cohort

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.

Cohort status
1/ 10filled
9 slots open
VK
Vipin Kumar
Founding Advisor · 01 / 10
Kitchener, ON
QA leadershipInsurance + claimsReal-estate techISTQB certified

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.

How Vipin helps · Operational and commercial counsel, sounding board on hiring, resourcing, vendor selection, and quality strategy.
No equity · advisor capacity
02 / 10
Open slot
Founding Advisor

Operators, RCICs, principals, and partners with sharp opinions on Canadian immigration practice.

See program terms
03 / 10
Open slot
Founding Advisor

Operators, RCICs, principals, and partners with sharp opinions on Canadian immigration practice.

See program terms
04 / 10
Open slot
Founding Advisor

Operators, RCICs, principals, and partners with sharp opinions on Canadian immigration practice.

See program terms
05 / 10
Open slot
Founding Advisor

Operators, RCICs, principals, and partners with sharp opinions on Canadian immigration practice.

See program terms
06 / 10
Open slot
Founding Advisor

Operators, RCICs, principals, and partners with sharp opinions on Canadian immigration practice.

See program terms
07 / 10
Open slot
Founding Advisor

Operators, RCICs, principals, and partners with sharp opinions on Canadian immigration practice.

See program terms
08 / 10
Open slot
Founding Advisor

Operators, RCICs, principals, and partners with sharp opinions on Canadian immigration practice.

See program terms
09 / 10
Open slot
Founding Advisor

Operators, RCICs, principals, and partners with sharp opinions on Canadian immigration practice.

See program terms
10 / 10
Open slot
Founding Advisor

Operators, RCICs, principals, and partners with sharp opinions on Canadian immigration practice.

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Apply

Think you belong in the remaining 9 Founding Advisor slots?

Full program terms, deal structure, and the application live on the Founding Advisors page.

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Who owns what

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
Founding Advisors program

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.

Seats
9/ 10 open

1 filled, 9 remaining. We close the cohort at 10 and lock the roster.

Working with us

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.

One platform · replaces 9 tools

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.