We are a software company from Quetta, Balochistan. We build custom software for Pakistani businesses and beyond. Founded in 2023 by two engineers who refused to leave the city they grew up in. This is our story.
In early 2023, two software engineers from Quetta — Muhammad Abubakar and Muhammad Ahmed Siddique — kept having the same frustrating conversation with local business owners. A doctor friend who needed patient management software was being quoted absurd prices by Karachi vendors who would not visit Quetta. A restaurant owner in Saddar wanted a POS system but did not know who to trust. A school principal needed a fee management portal but every "Pakistani software company" he contacted wanted a 50% advance and refused to share milestones.
The pattern was painfully clear: Balochistan businesses were being treated as second-class clients by software houses outside the province. Long response times, opaque pricing, no accountability, and a tone that suggested Quetta clients should be grateful that anyone was willing to work with them.
So we started CodeForge PK. Not to be a "national" software house pretending to be in Karachi. Not to chase Silicon Valley clients. Just to build the software company we wished existed when our friends and family needed software built. Local. Honest. Technically rigorous. Priced in PKR. Reachable in your timezone.
Co-Founder · Full-Stack & Backend Engineering
Quetta-born and Quetta-trained software engineer with deep expertise in Node.js, Python, Laravel, and database architecture. Abubakar leads the backend, infrastructure, and systems design at CodeForge. He is the engineer you want answering the hard architectural questions on your project.
Co-Founder · Web Development & Digital Marketing
Ahmed leads CodeForge's frontend, web design, and digital marketing practice. He is the person who built CodeForge's own website (that you are reading right now), runs the SEO strategy that brings clients to us, and works with clients on their growth marketing — Google Business, content, paid ads, conversion optimisation.
The salesperson-to-engineer translation layer at most software houses is where projects go to die. At CodeForge, you talk to the engineer doing the work. This is uncommon in Pakistan. It should not be.
If a software house cannot tell you a starting price for the kind of project you need, they are either disorganised or they are trying to charge whatever they think you will pay. Our prices are published.
The argument that Quetta is "too remote" for serious software work was already weak in 2015 and is laughable in 2026. Internet works. Video calls work. Git works. The remaining advantage of being in Karachi or Lahore is purely social and political, not technical.
CodeForge ships its own commercial products — CodeForge Guardian Windows antivirus and Umbrella Cyber Solutions. When you have to live with your own engineering decisions, you make better engineering decisions for your clients.
We do not have a sales budget. We do not run cold outreach campaigns. Our clients find us because they search for what they need and our pages rank — because our pages are useful. Every page on this website was built using the same principles we apply to client work.
To prove that a software company from Quetta can compete with anyone, anywhere, on quality of work — and to make it easier for the next generation of Balochistan engineers to build their own companies without leaving.
Our office is at Manan Chowk, Fatima Jinnah Road, Quetta, postal code 87300. It is a working engineering office — not a sales front. You are welcome to visit. WhatsApp us in advance and we will brew tea.
Our client base spans:
Pakistani software houses often try to do everything. We do not. To save you time, here is what we do not take on:
You are probably evaluating us for a project. Good. We respect buyers who do their homework. The next step is a 30-minute discovery call where we listen to what you need and tell you honestly whether we are the right fit. If we are not, we will suggest who might be — yes, even competitors. The Pakistani software industry is small, and we do not benefit from taking on projects we cannot serve well.