Founder & CEO
Aarav Mehta
Started VAUG in 2019 building MVPs for founders. Still sits in on every new client's first call.
- Strategy
- Partnerships
- Build With Us
Team
The people who build, ship and stay.
Senior engineers, AI specialists, designers, testers and delivery leads. Small squads, one accountable lead, and nobody hidden behind an account manager.
- Senior-led squads
- One accountable lead
- Six disciplines
Illustrative example
Leadership
Leadership.
The people accountable for how VAUG works, and for every project we take on.
CTO
Priya Nair
Owns architecture and engineering standards across every squad. Reviews more code than she admits.
- Architecture
- Cloud
- Code quality
Head of AI
Daniel Brooks
Leads our agents practice, from workflow audits to evaluation and monitoring in production.
- Agents
- RAG
- Evaluation
Head of Delivery
Sana Qureshi
Keeps every project on its weekly rhythm. The reason Friday updates arrive on Fridays.
- Delivery
- Scoping
- Client success
Head of Design
Luca Romano
Leads research, product design and design systems. Believes every screen should earn its place.
- Product design
- Research
- Design systems
Head of Growth
Hannah Clarke
Runs websites, listings and campaigns for Build With Us clients, and for VAUG itself.
- Growth
- SEO
- Performance marketing
Disciplines
The wider team, by discipline.
Squads are put together per project from these six groups.
- Engineering
- AI
- Design
- QA
- Delivery
- Growth
- 18
Engineering
Full-stack, web, mobile and backend engineers who own features end to end.
- Full-stack
- React / Next.js
- Flutter
- Node / Python
- 6
AI
Engineers who design, evaluate and run agents and LLM features in production.
- Agents
- RAG
- Evals
- MLOps
- 4
Design
Researchers and product designers who turn fuzzy ideas into clear flows.
- Product design
- UX research
- Design systems
- 4
QA
Testers who automate the boring checks and hunt the edge cases.
- Automation
- Manual
- Performance
- 5
Delivery
Leads who scope, plan and keep the weekly rhythm, and the single point of contact for clients.
- Delivery leads
- Scrum
- Business analysis
- 3
Growth
Marketers who run websites, listings and campaigns for the businesses we launch.
- SEO
- Paid media
- Content
We hire people who would rather ship something real on Friday than talk about it on Monday.
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