A senior identity-engineering firm — built around delivery, not sales.
Founded 2020. A lean, senior, predominantly technical team — the people who architect the systems are the people who deliver them.
A specialist engineering firm, not a general IT supplier.
Aptiway was founded in 2020 to do one thing well: digital identity, and the onboarding and transformation work that surrounds it. Our team designed and built the UAE National ID SDK and online Validation Gateway — in production since 2017 — and we still operate it.
| Founded | 2020. Digital identity, eKYC and digital transformation. |
| Footprint | Abu Dhabi — client face · Hyderabad — engineering centre · United Kingdom — presence |
| Team | A lean, senior, predominantly technical team. The people who architect the systems are the people who deliver them. |
| Markets | Middle East & Africa — governments, banks and financial institutions |
| Credentials | MOSIP-Certified System Integrator · Visa Strategic Partner · Tech5 Strategic Engagement · Common Criteria EAL4 · PCI-DSS |
Why identity programmes choose Aptiway.
Five reasons. None of them about ambition — all of them about what is already in production.
Built the real thing.
The team designed and operates national-scale identity infrastructure — not slideware.
Direct access to the engineers.
Lean, senior team. The people who architect are the people who deliver.
Standards-grade.
Common Criteria EAL4, PCI-DSS, MOSIP-Certified SI — security and compliance are native, not retrofitted.
Full stack.
Native smartcard and SDK depth alongside backend and payments-rails architecture, under one team.
Delivers and stays.
Multi-year production support — the UAE national system since 2017, Bank of Abyssinia for over three years.
Senior, technical, and small on purpose.
Aptiway is a lean, predominantly technical team. The people who architect the systems are the people who deliver them — there is no pre-sales layer that hands you over to a delivery team you have not met.
Between them, our leadership includes the architect of the UAE National ID Card Toolkit and the engineer who led the in-house team at the UAE Federal Authority for Identity & Citizenship that built its cross-platform smartcard SDK. Their combined depth covers smartcard and PKI engineering across the Gulf and Malaysia, Common Criteria certification to EAL4, PCI-DSS payments rails, and multi-year production support of national systems.
That is the whole operating model, and it is the main reason clients choose us over a larger integrator.
Want to meet the team?
We are happy to put you directly in touch with the people who would run your programme.