Dual-shore by design: UK & Germany accountability, Bengaluru engineering depth
This is not offshoring for cost — it's a deliberate split of responsibilities. Accountability, architecture and compliance stay client-side in Europe; execution runs from a certified engineering centre in Bengaluru. The economics are an advantage; the model is the point.
What stays onshore, what runs from Bengaluru
Every engagement has one accountable owner in the UK or Germany. The Bengaluru centre works inside the same QMS, the same toolchain and the same secure development lifecycle — one process, two locations.
Client-facing accountability
- Client relationship and single-point commercial accountability
- Programme management and delivery governance
- Solution and system architecture ownership
- Compliance ownership — QMS, IEC 62443 evidence, certification liaison
- Onsite support at client premises in the UK, Germany and wider Europe
- Requirements engineering with your domain experts, in your time zone
Engineering execution
- Embedded, software, cloud and data engineering execution
- Verification: test benches, automation, HIL rigs
- Sustained engineering — patches, vulnerability response, obsolescence
- DevSecOps pipeline build and operation
- Documentation production under the shared QMS
- Scalable team growth without UK/Germany hiring lead times
Crest Technologies Service Ltd
84 Shinfield RoadReading RG2 7DAUnited Kingdom
Crest Aerospace GmbH
Fangdieckstr. 6422547 HamburgGermany
Crest Technologies Service Ltd
2nd Floor, 1138, 17th Cross Rd7th Sector, HSR LayoutBengaluru, Karnataka 560102India
Build your own Global Capability Centre
For organisations that want an India engineering capability as a permanent, owned asset — not a vendor relationship — Crest provides end-to-end GCC consulting: strategy, setup and scale-up, grounded in running our own Bengaluru centre rather than in a slide deck.
Strategy & business case
Cost modelling against vendor and hybrid alternatives, location analysis within India, talent-market mapping for your specific engineering stack, and a board-ready case.
Entity & operations setup
Legal entity, tax and regulatory registrations, premises, IT and security infrastructure — sequenced so hiring can start while paperwork completes.
Leadership & talent
Centre-head and engineering-leadership hiring first; then team build with Bengaluru-market hiring pipelines, calibrated interviews and retention design.
Operating model & governance
The HQ-to-centre interface: ways of working, quality gates, security controls, KPI reporting — the part that determines whether a GCC compounds or disappoints.
BOT: we carry the setup risk, you own the result
For European and US clients who want the GCC outcome without the execution risk: Crest builds the centre, operates it to agreed SLAs, then transfers it to you at a pre-agreed trigger point. Four stages, each with a decision gate.
- Stage 01
Assess & design
Business case, cost model and talent-market analysis; operating-model design covering governance, security, quality and the HQ-to-centre interface. Decision gate: proceed, adjust or stop — with numbers.
- Stage 02
Build
Entity setup, premises and infrastructure in Bengaluru; leadership hiring first, then team build in pods; Crest's quality and security processes installed from day one rather than retrofitted.
- Stage 03
Operate
Crest runs the centre to agreed SLAs and quality gates — delivery output, attrition, security posture — with transparent KPI reporting to your board. You direct the work; we carry the operational risk.
- Stage 04
Transfer
At a pre-agreed trigger (headcount, tenure or performance milestones), entity, employment contracts, processes and vendor relationships transfer to you in a structured handover. The capability is yours — not a dependency on us.
Evaluating a GCC or BOT move?
We'll share the real numbers from running a Bengaluru centre — cost per engineer, ramp timelines, attrition, what goes wrong — before you commit to anything.