About us
Experience without the overhead
An independent consultancy built on fifteen-plus years of senior engineering and technology leadership in environments where downtime, audits and scale all have consequences.
- 15+
- Years in senior tech roles
- 40+
- Largest engineering org led
- 3
- Continents delivered across
- 100%
- Senior-led engagements
Our story
Maria Bennis AB was founded on a simple observation: most organisations don't need more technology, they need the right technology, explained clearly and delivered well.
Fifteen years across JVM platform engineering, e-commerce, payments and cloud operations have shown that the hardest part is rarely the tooling — it's alignment, prioritisation, regulatory reality and follow-through. That's where we add the most value.
Today we work with scale-ups, established platform businesses and public sector teams — as an advisor, an interim technology lead, or a delivery partner, depending on what the moment calls for.
Licensed payment platforms
Leading a 40-person technology organisation through payment-institution authorisation under PSD2 — secure-by-design engineering, KYC/AML readiness, identity and access management, audit trails, and an ISO/IEC 27001-based ISMS.
Personalization at scale
Head architect for a top-3 Swedish grocery group's digital platform serving millions of users: customer data platform, personalization and search, real-time event streaming, and microservices on Kubernetes.
Multi-country programmes
Owning end-to-end architecture and delivery for large retail digital transformations in the Gulf and Europe, directing distributed teams of up to 50 people across three continents.
Products and teams from scratch
Founding and building B2B SaaS products, including multi-model agentic platforms with human-in-the-loop controls, plus the hiring, delivery process and cloud foundations behind them.
What makes us different
A senior partner, not a pyramid
Every engagement is led by the person doing the work — architecture, code review, and the difficult conversations included.
Built to survive scrutiny
Experience taking a payment platform through licensing, an ISMS through audit, and a security baseline through real assessment.
We leave you stronger
Architecture documentation, change management, and team enablement are part of the deliverable, not an upsell.
Principles that guide every engagement
Hands-on seniority
The person advising you is the person in the architecture, the code review, and the incident channel.
Built for scrutiny
Security, auditability, and compliance are designed in from day one — not retrofitted before a regulator calls.
Outcome over output
Every recommendation is measured by the business result it creates, not by the size of the project it justifies.