Your technology partner for cloud architecture, infrastructure and engineering.
What we do
We help companies architect, build, and scale modern technology platforms.
We specialise in the "boring but vital" work that keeps your business running at peak performance.
Whether you're in Fintech or iGaming, or just want to optimise your platform, we reduce technical risk so you can grow sustainably.
Our high-impact reviews help you to understand the skills and technology required to prepare your teams and platforms for sustainable growth.
Technical assessments
Purpose: Stabilise your platforms’ infrastructure roadmap for growth.
Timeline: 2 to 3 weeks.
Deliverables: Architecture mapping, risk and bottleneck analysis, compliance gap review, and a prioritised optimisation roadmap.
Cloud architecture risk assessment
Legacy platform optimisation assessment
Purpose: Reduce infrastructure costs, DevOps friction, and fix performance bottlenecks
Timeline: 3 to 6 weeks.
Deliverables: Implementation roadmapping for guaranteed measurable cost savings and improved deployment speed.
Technology leadership and coaching
Purpose: Prepare your engineering teams for growth or a funding round.
Timeline: 2 to 6 weeks.
Deliverables: Engineering maturity and delivery workflow assessments, technical debt and organisational risk analysis and a scaling roadmap.
Responsible AI (RAI) maturity assessment
Purpose: Bridge the gap between AI experimentation and secure, enterprise-level execution.
Timeline: 1 to 3 weeks.
Deliverable: A roadmap to embed AI into your development cycle while safeguarding data privacy, preventing algorithmic bias, and ensuring code accountability.
“Gear Train’s contribution has had a lasting positive impact on us”
Our core delivery
In 3 to 6 months, we execute technical transformations. Our approach is milestone-based: you pay when we deliver.
How we work
Assessment: We start with a 2-week assessment
Roadmap: We agree on a milestone-based roadmap.
Delivery: Our team works alongside yours to implement the solution.
Our project capabilities
Full cloud migration
Moving your platform and infrastructure with zero downtime.
Platform re-architecture
Redesigning systems for optimal performance and scalability
DevOps and SRE
Automating deployments and improving reliability.
Engineering team augmentation
Scaling your capacity with expert developers.
Fractional CTO services
Strategic leadership without the cost of a full-time hire.
Ongoing support
Post-deployment support to keep your systems stable and reliable.
What people say
Our global advantage
Our extended team of experienced talent across the UK, Europe, and Kenya allows us to offer:
Diverse perspectives: our engineers come from different technical backgrounds, which helps us find more innovative solutions to complex problems.
Expertise at a competitive price: you get access to Tier-1 consultants with over 15 years of senior experience at a better value.
Extended operational coverage: our geographic spread allows us to support your systems and continue development cycles across multiple time zones within 3 hours of GMT.
Specialists in regulated markets: We understand the complexities of fintech and iGaming. Our teams are experienced in building systems that meet strict regulatory requirements while maintaining the speed needed to stay competitive.
15 +
Years of technology experience
15 +
Specialist engineers across UK, Kenya and EU
10+
Years of cloud native solutions
5+
Years of iGaming experience
4+
Years of payments experience
Our team
Munene Njogu
Munene has led award-winning teams in infrastructure architecture, DevOps, SRE and SecOps in the high-concurrency Fintech and iGaming sectors. Renowned for his composed, people-centric leadership, he can navigate technical problems, drive unit-cost efficiency at scale, and build collaborative teams that deliver reliably. Munene integrates platform scaling with intentional organisational design to ensure long-term resilience.
Founder, Managing Director
Bob Crutchley
Bob brings a wealth of experience in cloud-native infrastructure and senior-level leadership. With a passion for process optimisation, he leads the infrastructure team in delivering secure, reliable, and automated deployment frameworks. Bob balances technical rigour with an approachable leadership style, focusing on building robust systems that scale with the business.
Infrastructure, DevOps and Security Lead Engineer
Miriam Njogu
Miriam drives Gear Train’s brand experience and operations using data-driven insights and creative problem-solving. Known for her ability to translate technical language into accessible, high-resonance content, she brings a disciplined approach to project management and brand positioning.
She ensures that Gear Train’s operational workflows remain seamless.
Operations and Brand Manager
Andrada Zelezneac
Andrada engineers user-centric products that drive both business value and operational excellence. An expert in cross-functional leadership, she excels at navigating the intersection of commercial viability and technical execution. Through transparent agile processes and a knack for creative problem-solving, Andrada builds high-trust teams that deliver secure, market-ready solutions at scale.
Lead Product ManagerOur extended team
Our team isn’t just a collection of specialists; it is a carefully vetted network of technical experts recruited for their deep domain knowledge and proven track-record in high-stakes environments. By maintaining a rigorous selection process, we ensure that every engineer, architect, and product manager working with us brings the senior-level experience needed to solve complex challenges and help transform your business.
We have teams in the UK, Europe and Kenya, which allows us to combine international innovation with local knowledge.
“We specialise in the boring but vital work, diving deep into cloud architecture to drive efficiency and performance”
-Founder and Managing Director, Munene Njogu
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Reduction in time-to-market
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Increase in cloud infrastructure performance
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Infrastructure cost reduction
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