Our team
The people you actually work with
Dais Digital is led by its two co-founders. Every engagement is delivered by the same senior engineers who scoped it — there is no bench, and nothing gets handed down.
Co-founders & Directors
Nearly forty years of combined experience building and operating platforms in the public and private sector — both hands-on experts in Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes and the CNCF ecosystem, across multiple programming languages and infrastructure-as-code tooling.

Richard Shawley
Co-founder & Director
Richard is a platform and solution architect who combines hands-on software engineering with cloud, Kubernetes and integration-platform delivery.
He helps organisations establish reusable platform capabilities that improve developer self-service, operational resilience and trustworthy software delivery.
View Richard Shawley's profileRichard Shawley — areas of expertise
- Platform Engineering
- Solution Architecture
- Cloud Architecture
- Kubernetes
- Integration Platforms
- Infrastructure as Code
- Developer Experience
- Observability
- AI Engineering Enablement
- Technical Leadership

Richard Lang
Co-founder & Director
Richard is a hands-on software, DevOps and cloud-modernisation leader who helps teams design, deliver and operate dependable systems.
His experience spans .NET engineering, Azure and Kubernetes platforms, delivery automation, production support and technical mentoring.
View Richard Lang's profileRichard Lang — areas of expertise
- Software Engineering
- DevOps
- Cloud Modernisation
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD Automation
- Platform Engineering
- Distributed Systems
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Production Operations
- Technical Leadership
Work directly with the founders
No account managers, no handovers. Tell us about your platform and we'll take the first call ourselves.