From business problem to working product.
I'm Karthik Iyengar, co-founder of We Build Products. My work spans product strategy, systems architecture and building the business, grounded in over a decade delivering technology for financial services.
Building at WBP
We build our own products and help customers develop theirs. The responsibility starts with understanding the customer and deciding what is worth building, and continues through architecture, delivery and bringing the product to market.
Building WBP also means hiring, setting the culture and deciding where to invest our time and money. Product, technology and the business have to make sense together.
The experience behind it
At Shopify, the work included POS platform architecture and leading an initiative to scale core APIs. At Klarna, I was a founding engineer on the browser extension. Earlier work covered asset management and lending.
Regulation, security and audit are part of that experience, from risk and reporting systems to WBP's current AML/KYC and regulatory products. WBP is ISO 27001 certified; I own our information security management system.
Get in touch
If you want to build a product or talk about backing WBP, get in touch.
Earlier writing
Notes on software, from the archive. All writing →