The eCommerce team
behind
500+
high-performance
stores worldwide.
Stagebit is a performance-first eCommerce development agency specialising in Magento 2, Adobe Commerce, Hyvä themes, Shopify Plus and Shopware 6. Founded in 2017, we are headquartered in Surat, India, with a registered office in Cologne, Germany, and clients across DACH, the UK, US and Australia.
We work two ways: directly with ecommerce brands, and behind the scenes as a white-label development partner for agencies that need senior Magento, Shopify or Shopware engineering without building an internal team.
500+
Stores launched
9+
Years in business
4.8★
Clutch rating
DE + IN
Offices
One developer.
2017.
A decision that stuck.
Stagebit started as one person: Rohit Kundale, a developer who had already spent four years fixing other agencies’ broken Magento handoffs, and had seen enough to know what he wanted to do differently.
Read why, below
India HQ
Surat, Gujarat
Germany
Cologne, NRW
Response time
Same-day, Mon–Fri
Demos
Fortnightly sprints
Why Stagebit exists: the founder’s story
Why we exist
“We never set out to be the biggest agency. We set out to be the last one you’d ever have to hire.”
Rohit Kundale
Founder & Lead Engineer · Adobe Commerce Certified Developer
Our story
I had been fixing other people’s Magento handoffs since 2013, four years before Stagebit existed. The same pattern kept repeating: stores built on tight timelines, handed over without documentation, and left to degrade quietly. Performance problems appeared months after launch. SEO rankings dropped after migrations that “went fine.” Developers moved on and nobody could explain why the checkout was broken.
We built Stagebit around one decision: treat performance, stability and release safety as requirements, not afterthoughts. That means baselining Core Web Vitals before writing a line of code, validating checkout flows on staging before every release, and keeping a senior Adobe Commerce-certified developer accountable throughout — not just at handoff.
That decision held as the team grew past one person. The first hire was a developer who shared the same standard for release safety, not just someone who could write Magento code. As client work expanded into Europe, we opened the Cologne office to give DACH clients a point of contact in their own time zone, not a support ticket queue eight time zones away. Every person who joined after that was chosen the same way: could they own a release the way Rohit did, not just execute a ticket.
Since founding Stagebit in 2017, and 500+ stores later, that decision is still what separates the projects that succeed from the ones that don’t. It’s the only reason we have clients who’ve been with us since year one and never needed to look for another agency.
Founded on
Performance as a requirement, not a phase
Built on
Adobe Commerce certified leadership on every project
Sustained by
Clients who stayed because releases stayed stable
What we believe
Our operating principles — the ones you’ll notice on day one.
That decision from year one still shapes how we work today. Not “integrity” and “quality.” These are the specific positions that define how we scope, build, ship, and stay. Here is what that means if you are weighing us against the alternatives.
Performance is architecture, not a sprint at the end.
We baseline Core Web Vitals before writing a line of code. Speed constraints are defined at the blueprint stage, not retrofitted after the client notices the store is slow three months post-launch.
CWV targets in every project spec
See this in your project scopeA senior developer should own the project, not manage it.
A layer of account managers relaying technical decisions adds latency, not value. One named senior lead owns architecture decisions, release safety and client communication for every project, from kickoff to post-launch.
You meet your lead on the first call
Book that first callThat belief holds up against the alternative. Here’s the comparison, stated plainly:
Compared to the alternatives you’re weighing
Vs. a large agency
No account manager between you and the person building your store. You talk to the senior lead making the architecture decisions, not someone relaying messages.
Vs. a freelancer
A named team with documented rollback plans, staging validation on every release, and continuity if one person is unavailable. Not a single point of failure.
Vs. an in-house hire
Adobe Commerce certified senior expertise from day one, without the hiring timeline, salary overhead, or single-person dependency of building an internal team.
Leadership
Senior-led
by default.
That belief is also why every project gets a named senior lead instead of a rotating group of contractors. Small team, high ownership. The people below are the client-facing leads who run your project from kickoff to launch, backed by the rest of our engineering and QA team in Surat.
How every project is staffed
A named senior lead with full accountability, plus a platform specialist matched to your stack. QA and performance support are added when the scope demands it.
Same-day reply (Mon–Fri)
Adobe Commerce Certified, Professional and Expert
Rohit Kundale
Founder and Lead Engineer
- Adobe Certified Professional
- Adobe Certified Expert
I’m a developer who built a business, not a business person who hired developers. I hold active Adobe Commerce Professional and Expert Front-End certifications and still review architecture on every project we take, so when something breaks you’re talking to the person who can actually fix it.
European Client Relations, Cologne, Germany
German-speaking, CET timezone
Diego Ignacio Garcia
Head of European Accounts, DACH
- German-Speaking
- CET-Aligned
Diego is your single point of contact for DACH accounts, in German or English, during your working hours. Discovery calls, sprint reviews and escalations are handled directly, with a shared project document from kickoff and no support inbox that resets with every message.
Mitali Kundale
Adobe Certified ProfessionalMagento Developer
Mitali builds and maintains Magento 2 storefronts across active client projects and holds the same Adobe Commerce Professional certification as Rohit, her husband and Stagebit’s founder.
Rohan Khatri
Technical Head
Rohan works on technical delivery across Magento, Hyva and Laravel projects, and is often the person clients on those stacks talk to day to day.
Work life balance
Life at Stagebit.
We’re a process-driven team that ships performant eCommerce — and also celebrates Ganesh Chaturthi, Diwali and the occasional birthday cake together. Strong in our craft, genuinely good to each other. Every person here can explain why the checkout broke at 2 PM on a Tuesday.
Based in Surat. Working with the world.
Surat HQ
Gujarat, India
Cologne Office
Germany
Remote-first
4 continents
Senior-led
No junior handoffs
Proof you can sanity-check
Numbers that
reflect
how we deliver
We keep teams moving by combining senior ownership with disciplined execution. These numbers reflect how we staff, how we ship and what clients consistently experience.
- Years in eCommerce delivery
- 9+
- Projects shipped
- 500+
- Client retention rate
- 78%
- Reply time
- Same-day
- Typical LCP improvement
- 0.7–1.9s
- Release safety (per release)
- 30–60
Senior-led builds, migrations and performance work across Magento, Adobe Commerce, Shopify and Shopware since Stagebit’s founding in 2017.
From scoped performance audits to full platform migrations, with clear deliverables and a named senior lead on every one.
Tracked internally since founding in 2017, across new builds, migrations, audits and ongoing retainer work.
Of clients continue working with us after their first project. Performance holds, releases stay stable, and problems get caught before they turn into incidents.
Based on clients engaged since 2022.
Mon to Fri. You’ll hear from a senior lead, not a support queue. Scope questions, timeline changes and escalations all get a direct, informed reply the same business day.
Reduction on PDP, cart and checkout templates when bottlenecks are fixable without a full redesign.
Range observed across recent performance audits. Actual results vary by store.
Checkout scenarios validated — payments, shipping, coupons, tracking — before anything ships to production.
Based on our standard QA checklist for payment gateways, shipping rules, coupon logic and order tracking.
Credentials & partnerships
Certified on every platform we build on.
We hold active certifications and official partner status for the platforms we recommend to clients, not just experience, but verified credentials. Our Shopify partner status sits under Bulltheme, Stagebit’s dedicated Shopify brand, run by the same team you see on this page.
Certifications & reviews
Proof
Proof, not promises.
Here is what “performance as architecture, not an afterthought” looked like on a real projects.
B2B wholesaler BioWorld moved from Magento 1 to Magento 2 — faster checkout, cleaner code, and measurable growth from day one.
−55% Bounce Rate
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+89% Sales Uplift Post-Migration
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+259% Organic Traffic Growth
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83% User Retention Rate
A high-performance Magento 2 platform for Crate & Barrel's Middle East omnichannel retail, built for scale, speed, and conversion.
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+620% Revenue Growth
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+200% Sales Increase
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+78% Traffic Growth
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+42% Conversion Rate Lift
Magento 1 to Shopify migration for Party Expert, enabling faster performance and scalable ecommerce.
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Zero-downtime Magento 1 → Shopify migration
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100% data & SEO preservation
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< 3s page load speed across devices
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+210% sales growth after migration
How we work
Lean process.
Senior ownership.
Safer
releases.
Long relationships.
We ship in small batches, validate revenue-critical paths and measure outcomes against your KPIs. Most clients stay well past the first project — because the process makes ongoing work easy to justify.
Audit + priorities
We baseline Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS), review the templates that drive revenue and map friction across PDP, cart and checkout. Then we rank fixes by impact and risk — so you know what to fix first and what can wait.
Plan + scope
We define what “done” means before writing a line of code: deliverables, trade-offs, acceptance criteria and the specific KPI we’re moving. Stakeholders get clarity before anything ships. No scope drift, no surprise invoices.
Build + validate
We implement in small, reviewable PRs with senior code review on every merge. QA is continuous, not a phase at the end. Everything — checkout flows, tracking, SEO — is validated on staging before production sees it.
Launch + iterate
We roll out safely, monitor CWV and conversion signals and iterate based on what the data shows. If something regresses, we’re rollback-ready within minutes. No hero launches. No Monday morning incidents that nobody warned you about.
Stay + support — the ongoing relationship
Launch isn’t a handoff. The process and the people stay the same once the site goes live, so the relationship rarely ends at the first project. Within 6 months, most clients move to a retainer or commission follow-on work, on top of the retention numbers above.
Monthly Retainer
Committed senior engineering time each month. Fortnightly sprint demos. Shared backlog. Direct Slack access to your lead developer. No renegotiating scope every cycle.
Every Project
Even fixed-scope projects include a post-launch support window as standard. Critical issues triaged same-day, fixed or rolled back within hours — not after you open a ticket.
Not sure which model fits your situation? Tell us about your store →
Where we are
Two offices.
One live window.
No timezone guesswork.
Engineering runs from Surat. European client relations run from Cologne. Below is exactly where we are and when you can reach us live, shown in your own time zone.
Cologne
–:– CET
Surat
–:– IST
Live overlap window
9:00 to 14:00 CET. Central European Time, converting to your time zone now
every business day
After the live window, priority items still get a same-day reply, Monday to Friday.
Headquarters
Surat, India
115, Valentino Business Hub
Opp Kothariya BRTS Bus Stand
Gujarat 395002
Engineering team
European office
Cologne, Germany
Everhard-Stolz-Str. 16
50997 Cologne
Germany
Diego Ignacio Garcia, DACH client relations
Who answers what
Technical questions
Rohit or your senior lead, same day.
DACH accounts
Diego in Cologne, in German or English, during CET hours.
Escalations
Rohit directly, same business day.
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Working with us.
Common questions about how Stagebit operates — answered before you have to ask them on a call.
Tanya Garcia
Client Onboarding Lead
Still have questions?
Tanya handles first response on new inquiries, so you hear back quickly and get routed to the right person. Technical scoping and ongoing account questions go straight to your senior lead once a project starts, not through a middle layer. Tell us about your project and we'll point you in the right direction, no sales pressure, no obligation.
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Client roster
Trusted by teams that ship fast worldwide
We support revenue-critical stores with performance work, migrations and reliable delivery.
Fast revenue paths. Safe releases.
Share your platform, goals and what’s slowing you down. We’ll reply with a practical next step: a quick audit plan, a migration approach, or a prioritized performance roadmap.
Best for: DTC and B2B teams on Magento, Shopify or Shopware who care about CWV, conversion and stability. Also a good fit for agencies that want a reliable white-label development partner.
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