Shehryar T. Ali
. PKT Founder & CEO, Solaris Group Lahore / Los Angeles

Two decades building software companies, bootstrapped from Lahore.

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Founder of the Solaris Group. Four operating companies under one umbrella.
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150+ professionals. Five continents of client work.
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Author of The Offshore Trap (2025). The book the audit practice came out of.
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Scale
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Professionals across the four operating companies.

Tenure
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Bootstrapped. No outside capital.

Reach
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Client work delivered across five continents.

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The work itself is the credential.

Microsoft engaged S.T.A.R.S as an Azure-platform vendor. A partner company engineered precision tooling for an aerospace program, with S.T.A.R.S inside the build. A short-design deliverable contributed to a NASA Mars-mission tool.

Engineering teams have shipped production software for Telenor, Interloop, Sapphire, Crescent Bahuman, HSY, Azgard Nine, Ali Murtaza Associates, and Wonderworld.

In 2025, after watching enough offshore firms extract more than they delivered, he wrote The Offshore Trap and opened a new audit service for exactly that problem.

003 / Past

Earlier ventures and advisory.

Co-founded MyDoc as Chief Technology Officer. HIPAA-compliant healthcare platform, acquired within 24 months. Co-founded Greenstone Private Limited, a cinema-chain ERP and SaaS venture, acquired on a similar timeline.

Has served as Chief Technology Advisor to INORA, a New York-based education nonprofit that delivered low-bandwidth learning to more than 10,000 women and girls in conflict-affected regions, and to Paravel, a Los Angeles fashion-technology firm.

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Three things in motion.

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An audit practice.

Forensic review of troubled offshore engineering relationships for international clients. The professional form of what The Offshore Trap describes diagnostically.

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Continuum.

An AI framework for orchestrating distributed engineering teams across time zones and languages. Internal use today; external availability staged.

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Research.

Pre-publication work on large language models as forensic instruments for detecting fraud signatures in code repositories, invoices, and contracts.

006 / Awards

The record.

2025IT Services and API Integration AwardEntrepreneur Awards Pakistan / CXO Global
2025Honorary ShieldGovernor of Punjab
2024Honorary ShieldGovernor of Punjab
2023Best IT Services AwardPresident of Pakistan
2022Best Software House AwardPresident of Pakistan
007 / Book

The Offshore Trap.

The Offshore Trap by Shehryar T. Ali
A view from the inside
The
Offshore
Trap
Shehryar T. Ali . 2025

A book on the patterns of fraud that have shaped global outsourcing for two decades, written from inside the industry by a founder who refused to run them.

The book is the reason the firm now offers independent third-party audits of offshore teams and their codebases, a category that did not exist before.

Apple Books and Google Play carry the current edition. The Amazon listing remains visible for archival reasons; purchase via Apple or Google.

008 / Education

Trained between Lahore, Cardiff, and London.

2025DeepLearning.AIMachine Learning Specialization, Andrew Ng's program
2023Institute of Chartered Accountants of PakistanDirectors Training Program
2009Middlesex University, LondonMSc, Management
2007Cardiff UniversityPostgraduate Diploma, Business Administration
2005Lahore School of EconomicsBSc (Honours), IT and Economics
.Aitchison College / LACASO/Levels and A/Levels (Cambridge)
009 / Memberships

Trade and professional bodies.

PASHAPakistan Software Houses Association
PSEBPakistan Software Export Board
SECPSecurities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan
LCCILahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry
IEEEInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
010 / Contact

For press, speaking,
advisory and investor:
[email protected]