It's your team.We just build it.

GAPSTARS Great Scale Up team awards group

The same engineers you'd hire at home, working from Sri Lanka or Portugal. Fully embedded in your workflow, aligned to your culture, and built to stay for years.

75+ partners. 10 years. One way of working.

75+
PARTNERS
10+
YEARS
4
HUBS
95%
RETENTION

Our Values

Growth

We support our people’s growth beyond their careers, creating space for learning, mentorship, and personal development.

Impact

We’re committed to creating positive change through social responsibility, education, and sustainability initiatives.

Community

Gapstars is a supportive, inclusive community where people feel valued, connected, and empowered to grow together.

How wegot here.

  1. 2010

    From WebGurus to Gapstars —project-based work becameembedded, long-term teams.

  2. 2015

    Became Gapstars.First Benelux partnerships.

  3. 2023

    Opened Lisbon hub.Expanded to Portugal.

  4. 2025

    Expanded toGapstars Finance

  5. 2026

    Launch ofGapstars Group

Three thingsyou'll feelfrom day one.

The peoplebehindthe model.

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Hugo HemmenCEO
Matthijs WolfCommercial Director
Edo van der BasDirector of Accounts
Stasz ZernickeCountry Director - SL
Peumalee ChandrasiriHead of Delivery
Phillipa LawlessHead of Academy
Gihan de SilvaHead of Engineering
Uthum MilindaHead of Talent
Adrian MarcusHead of Marketing

Awards and Recognitions

Fastest Growing

Great Place to Work Wellness Champion in Sri Lanka 2024

Wellness Champion

Top 250 Groeibedrijven

Top 250 Scaleups

Great Place to Work Best Workplaces Sri Lanka 2026

Best Workplaces

DNV ISO IEC 27001 Information Security Management System

ISO 27001 Secure

ISO 27701 certification

ISO 27701 Privacy

GAPSTARS Team in Lisbon

Tell us what
you're building.

We'll tell you if we're the right fit — and if we're not,
we'll tell you that too.

The belief doesn't stop at our clients.

Our business runs on one idea: give people the right platform and there's no limit to what they do. Our CSR work carries that across Sri Lanka, backing communities still catching up on decades of underinvestment, starting with kids.

Students learning in a workshop

The Liv Foundation, CYTC

A trade and a real shot at work.

CYTC gives young people who left school early a qualification and a path to a paycheck. Alongside the Liv Foundation, we back the curriculum, facilities, and pathways into jobs.

CYTC gives young people who left school early a qualification and a path to a paycheck. Alongside the Liv Foundation, we back the curriculum, facilities, and pathways into jobs.

Young student looking forward

Home of Hope, Kandy

A home that raises children for life.

Since 2001 it has taken in more than 420 kids with nowhere else to go and raised them properly: fed, schooled, and cared for. We fund the everyday cost of keeping it running.

Since 2001 it has taken in more than 420 kids with nowhere else to go and raised them properly: fed, schooled, and cared for. We fund the everyday cost of keeping it running.

Four locations. Oneway of working.

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Colombo

Home to our largest team and the foundation of everything we do. Colombo covers the full stack - backend, frontend, mobile, QA, data engineering, DevOps and AI. Most of our long-term partner teams are built and led here.

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Amsterdam

Where we grow relationships and run our commercial operations. The Benelux is our most established market - over half of our 75+ partner companies are based in the Netherlands, Belgium, or Luxembourg.

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Lisbon

Opened in 2020, Lisbon gives partners European-based engineering talent with EU employment law. Popular with partners who need EU data residency or proximity to their own European offices.

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Dubai

Established in 2024, Dubai extends our reach into the Gulf region and bridges our European partners with MENA-based clients.