Our team

The people building clearer sponsor compliance.

Sponsoro is built by DevBeam — a software team headquartered in Southampton with experience delivering secure, compliance-heavy products for regulated industries. We combine immigration compliance domain research with modern platform engineering, AI and thoughtful product design.

Built in the UK

A team obsessed with making sponsor compliance manageable.

Leadership

Founder and engineering leadership

Sponsoro is led by a founder focused on sponsor compliance outcomes and an engineering lead building secure, production-grade platform software.
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Dr. Hassan Ali Khan

CEO & Founder

Founded Sponsoro to give UK licensed sponsors a clearer, more accountable way to manage worker compliance — connecting everyday HR and payroll changes to the sponsorship duties behind them.

  • Product vision
  • Sponsor compliance strategy
  • Company leadership
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Babar Kamal

Engineering Lead

Leads platform engineering for Sponsoro — from secure multi-tenant architecture and audit trails to the day-to-day compliance workflows HR and Level 1 users depend on.

  • Platform architecture
  • Security & tenant isolation
  • Compliance workflows

Platform team

The team building Sponsoro

Engineers and operations staff shipping the platform sponsors use every day — from compliance workflows and AI to billing and financial reporting.

Team size

5

Engineering

4 members

Operations

1 member

Engineering

Backend, frontend, data and DevOps engineers building the platform sponsors use every day.

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Afzaad Khan

Backend Engineer

Builds the server-side foundations of Sponsoro — APIs, database models, tenant isolation and the backend logic that powers compliance workflows.

  • APIs & services
  • PostgreSQL & Drizzle
  • Server actions
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Zartab Anees

Frontend Engineer

Develops the Sponsoro interface — turning complex compliance workflows into clear, responsive experiences for HR, payroll and compliance teams.

  • React & Next.js
  • UI components
  • Product screens
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Ali Arsalan

Data Scientist

Works on compliance data, guidance search, embeddings and the models that help Sponsoro surface explainable insights from sponsor records and official guidance.

  • Guidance search
  • Embeddings & RAG
  • Compliance analytics
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Zubaid

DevOps Engineer

Keeps Sponsoro running reliably in production — deployments, infrastructure, monitoring, CI pipelines and the operational tooling the engineering team depends on.

  • Vercel & Neon
  • CI/CD
  • Infrastructure & monitoring

Operations

Finance and commercial operations keeping Sponsoro's billing, reporting and day-to-day business running smoothly.

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M. Zaid Adil Khan

Financial Ops

Manages Sponsoro's financial operations — billing, subscriptions, cost tracking and the finance workflows that keep the business running alongside customer growth.

  • Billing & subscriptions
  • Financial reporting
  • Operational finance

How we're organised

One product, many disciplines

Sponsoro spans compliance research, platform engineering, AI, design and customer success — all focused on the same outcome: helping sponsors stay on top of their duties.

Product & compliance research

We map Home Office sponsor duties, SMS obligations and real HR workflows into software that teams can actually run — not generic HR with immigration bolted on.

Platform engineering

Secure SaaS infrastructure: PostgreSQL row-level security, private document storage, hash-chained audit logs, rate limiting and production-grade deployment.

AI & decision support

Guidance ingestion, compliance scanning, explainable issue detection and an AI Copilot that helps teams explore rules and records — without replacing human judgment.

Design & experience

Interfaces built for busy HR, payroll and compliance teams — clear next actions, evidence at the point of decision and exports ready for audits and visits.

Trust & data protection

Privacy-by-design, UK GDPR alignment, subprocessors governance and security controls documented for customers and procurement reviews.

Customer success

Onboarding sponsors, answering compliance workflow questions and helping organisations get from signup to confident day-to-day use.

How we work

Principles that shape the product

These guide how we design features, write alerts and decide what Sponsoro should — and should not — automate.

Explain, don't just alert.

Compliance software should tell you why something matters — not just that it flagged.

Build for real sponsor teams.

HR, payroll, Authorising Officers and advisers all need different views of the same truth.

Preserve the evidence.

Every important action should leave a record you can defend in an audit or compliance visit.

Stay honest about boundaries.

Sponsoro supports compliance workflows — it does not provide immigration advice.

Where we work

UK-founded. Built for UK sponsors.

Headquarters

Southampton, United Kingdom

Team

United Kingdom, with a distributed engineering team

Built for UK licensed sponsors. We work closely with customers across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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