BayRock Labs sells something harder to package than software: a distributed engineering bench that can move from a sketch to a cloud migration, an AI workflow or a rebuilt product. Its wager is that four specialist labs can make outsourced development feel less outsourced.

Samir Deolikar is the Chief Executive Officer of BayRock Labs, a Silicon Valley product-engineering firm in San Jose that ships AI-first software for startups and enterprises. He moved into the CEO seat in February 2024 after two years as advisor, and twenty-plus years across Zensar Technologies and Reliance Industries before that.