Cloud & enterprise SaaS
Oracle
Hyperscale cloud estates, tenancy and IAM design, and zero-trust–aligned patterns for managed infrastructure and enterprise SaaS.
The firm
Built for leaders who cannot afford theater
Bade Group is a US-based partnership of strategists, architects, and operators. We work with CEOs, CIOs, boards, and investors when technology choices carry balance-sheet, regulatory, or reputational weight — and when the organization is tired of recommendations that ignore implementation reality.
What we believe
Intellectual honesty
We tell clients when their preferred path is infeasible, overpriced, or politically untenable — early, in writing.
Partner access
Senior people stay on the account. You will not discover mid-project that your lead was double-booked across four logos.
Transferable outcomes
Artifacts, runbooks, and decision logs are yours. We are suspicious of “black box” deliverables that create dependency.
Trajectory
A simplified firm history — illustrative of growth and focus, not a legal filing.
- 2016
Founded as a four-person architecture practice serving healthcare and industrials.
- 2019
Opened East Coast delivery hub; first multi-year managed pod engagement with a Fortune 500 manufacturer.
- 2021
Formalized investor-services practice; completed twenty-two technical diligences in a single year.
- 2024
Crossed two hundred cumulative programs; launched dedicated public-sector procurement track.
Footprint & staffing
We are headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with distributed senior staff in Austin, Atlanta, Denver, and Seattle. Typical engagement teams range from four to eighteen professionals, blending Bade Group partners with client secondees where appropriate. We do not offshore core architecture or security work; specialized labor is engaged transparently when it materially benefits the client economics.
Program scale
Where principal-led architecture shows up
Representative cloud, security, and platform programs — the kinds of environments that shape how we write methodology for regulated, high-scale, and mission-driven clients. Not an exhaustive list; many engagements remain confidential.
Edge security & performance
Akamai Technologies
Global DDoS mitigation, WAF and bot defenses, API protection, and performance engineering for highly exposed internet-facing services.
Marketplace & platform trust
Airbnb
Architecture and security depth for global two-sided marketplaces: identity, payments resilience, abuse resistance, and safe scale-out of core platform paths.
Commerce & marketplace integrity
eBay
High-volume listing and transaction estates: fraud and abuse controls, seller/buyer trust mechanisms, and hardened integration layers at marketplace scale.
Retail & omnichannel
Walmart
Cloud and hybrid programs across retail-scale systems: omnichannel integration, supply-chain visibility, and reliability expectations of a national store footprint.
Travel & operations technology
American Airlines
Reservations, partner and alliance integrations, and resilience design for passenger-facing and operations-critical airline technology stacks.
People
Who you work with
Bade Group operates through a structured delivery model that combines international technical leadership with locally compliant execution.
For Nepal delivery structure and local partner credentials, see Partners.
Saugat Sthapit
Principal — cloud, security & architecture
Based in the Philadelphia area · US practice lead
Saugat leads Bade Group’s architecture voice — the layer boards, investors, and evaluators probe when cloud adoption, zero trust, and resilience carry real consequence. His work has spanned edge-scale protection, regulated life sciences, nonprofit missions, and HIPAA-aligned platforms, always with a bias toward systems that hold up in operations, not just in proposals.
On Nepal public and institutional programs, he shapes methodology, security posture, and technical narrative alongside Nisunajni Group as local prime — so QCBS depth and local compliance stay aligned.
Zero trust & enterprise identityMulti-cloud and hybrid programsEdge security, DDoS, and WAFRegulated and mission-critical estates
Program context
Illustrative of sectors and problem classes — not an exhaustive client list or timeline.
- Oracle — Hyperscale cloud estates, tenancy and IAM design, and zero-trust–aligned patterns for managed infrastructure and enterprise SaaS.
- Akamai Technologies — Global DDoS mitigation, WAF and bot defenses, API protection, and performance engineering for highly exposed internet-facing services.
- Airbnb — Architecture and security depth for global two-sided marketplaces: identity, payments resilience, abuse resistance, and safe scale-out of core platform paths.
- eBay — High-volume listing and transaction estates: fraud and abuse controls, seller/buyer trust mechanisms, and hardened integration layers at marketplace scale.
- Walmart — Cloud and hybrid programs across retail-scale systems: omnichannel integration, supply-chain visibility, and reliability expectations of a national store footprint.
- American Airlines — Reservations, partner and alliance integrations, and resilience design for passenger-facing and operations-critical airline technology stacks.
- Bristol-Myers Squibb — Regulated cloud adoption, compliance-aware security architecture, and modernization of mission-critical application portfolios in a GxP-sensitive environment.
- Siemens — Hybrid cloud, segmentation, and reliability initiatives supporting industrial digitization and enterprise-scale operational technology adjacency.
- Southern Poverty Law Center — Threat modeling, cloud hardening, and operational security supporting civil-rights and mission-driven technology under sustained adversarial attention.
- Rigewise — HIPAA-oriented controls, secure SDLC, and cloud-native architecture for a US senior-care and clinical-adjacent SaaS platform.
Nikki Shrestha
Nepal liaison — operations & procurement
Kathmandu valley · In-country coordination
Nikki coordinates Nepal-side rhythm for engagements that pair Nisunajni Group’s delivery and compliance footprint with Bade Group’s technical leadership — RFIs, documentation packages, and stakeholder alignment so institutional processes stay orderly.
She is the primary operational contact when tenders or programs require Nepal-based liaison alongside US architecture input.
Procurement and RFI coordinationDocumentation and stakeholder alignmentLocal program rhythm with integrator partners
Nepal procurement
Institutional tenders & local delivery
For Nepal public-sector and enterprise RFPs, we pair a VAT-registered local integrator with Bade Group architecture and security leadership — structured for QCBS technical dialogue and compliance. Leadership and liaison contacts are on this page in the Leadership section above; the full delivery model, capabilities, and representative footprint live on Partners.
Nepal partners & footprint →