CraniumSoft is a software development consultancy specialising in .NET, Azure and financial platform engineering — backed by 10+ years designing systems where a dropped transaction or a double-booked record isn't an option.
Design and build APIs, microservices and cloud infrastructure on .NET Core and Azure — APIM, Functions, Key Vault, EF Core — with clean separation across API, application, domain and infrastructure layers.
Card issuance, transaction processing and lifecycle management; integrations with payment providers such as FIS and Elavon for balance enquiries, tokenisation and real-time transaction retrieval.
Migrate legacy .NET / VB.NET / Web Forms estates into modern, cloud-native architectures — incrementally, without stopping the business that depends on them.
Team leadership, mentoring and delivery ownership for engineering teams working in regulated, high-stakes environments — from story breakdown through to production.
Build interactive, strongly-typed web applications with ASP.NET Core and Blazor WebAssembly — internal tools, customer-facing portals and dashboards backed by clean, well-tested API integrations.
Schema design, query optimisation and data access layers across SQL Server, Entity Framework Core and Cosmos DB — built to hold up under real transaction volume, not just pass a demo.
These are concept builds created to demonstrate booking, table-management and scheduling capability — not real client engagements. Live client work will replace these as it's delivered.
CraniumSoft is led by Salman Tariq, Principal Consultant, drawing on a decade inside the banking and payments systems below.
Built the card issuance and transaction processing platform powering onboarding, top-ups and spend controls, integrated with major payment providers for real-time balance and token services. Employer named on request.
Modernised legacy B2B .NET applications into Node.js/TypeScript microservices in Azure; led a development team through story creation, delivery and DoD reviews.
Engineered payment and settlement REST APIs on Cosmos DB and Azure Functions; CI/CD pipelines with Sonar Cloud & SOOS cut deployment errors by 30%.
Built and maintained billing, settlement and workflow systems in C#, VB.NET and ASP.NET Core across a multi-year change programme.
Tell us what you're building or what's breaking. We'll reply with availability and a straight view on whether it's a fit.