About

Senior. Hands-on. Accountable.

transparently.tech is led by engineers and architects who have built for the UN, national utilities and listed companies, and who still do the work themselves. Edinburgh based, Heriot-Watt trained.

ISO 27001 certified · professional accreditations across the team

The principals
Zarek Marshall

Zarek Marshall

Technical principal

Worked up from developer to CTO, taking a SaaS product through two acquisitions along the way: modernising the platform, rebuilding the team, and introducing the engineering and QA discipline a growing product needs. Hands-on across transparently.tech's client work, from architecture through to shipped code.

Tina Hahn

Tina Hahn

Technical principal

Background in geospatial and data delivery, including work in satellite imagery for the International Atomic Energy Agency and a spell at Registers of Scotland. Led the data migration, analytics and warehousing stream of OVO's £15m enterprise data programme, following its acquisition of SSE's home services business. Hands-on end to end at transparently.tech, from data architecture to client relationship.

How we work

The same way, every engagement.

Goals and constraints first.

Designed around your budget, team and timeline, not our preferences.

AI speed, senior judgement.

Agentic delivery brings time and cost down. Experienced engineers keep the bar exactly where it was. See how we build →

Built in the open.

Progress you can see, decisions explained, costs agreed before work starts.

Finished properly.

Documentation, runbooks, and a system your team can own. No lock-in.

The next generation

Where the next senior engineers come from.

We're conscious that agentic development creates a real problem: AI now does the work juniors used to cut their teeth on.

That's how we learned the job, and someone has to keep passing it on.

So in the summer we take students from Stirling University to work on real systems with us. Our aspiration is to formalise that into a modern apprenticeship.

Summer placements Stirling University
Apprenticeships Coming soon
If you're a student, get in touch →
Delivered for

Have a build that has to work?

Tell us what you're shipping. We'll tell you in 48 hours if we're the right fit, and straight away if we're not.

Tell us what you're shipping