Engineering your ascent

software built to last, and engineers built to build it

about us

We build IT that builds your business

Ascent Labs is a product and engineering studio. We design and ship custom software — web platforms, cloud infrastructure, data pipelines and machine learning systems — for teams that need it done properly the first time. We work alongside our clients through every sprint, so what ships is the thing that was actually needed, not the thing that was easiest to build.

The second half of what we do is people. Our internship programs give students real repositories, real code review and real deadlines, because that is the only way anyone learns to ship. We bridge the gap between what campus teaches and what the industry expects, and a good number of our interns end up on the other side of the table as engineers.

Mentor-led: every cohort is guided by working engineers, not recorded lectures.

Quality first: documented process, versioned delivery and a written standard for everything that leaves the studio.

About Ascent Labs

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our services

Website Development

Website Development

We build web applications that are fast, accessible and built to grow with you. From marketing sites to complex internal tools, our engineers work in modern stacks and ship on a schedule you can plan around. Every build ships with performance budgets, responsive layouts down to the smallest handset, and an architecture your own team can pick up and extend later.

Cloud Computing

Moving to the cloud is easy. Running well on it is not. We handle the whole path — architecture review, migration, containerisation, CI/CD, autoscaling and cost control — so your infrastructure stops being a recurring emergency. Whether you are on AWS, Azure or GCP, we leave you with something documented, reproducible and considerably cheaper to run.

Cloud Computing
Graphic Design

Graphic Design

Brand identity, product UI, campaign assets, decks and print — our designers cover the full range. We start from your positioning rather than a template, then deliver a system: type scale, colour, spacing and components that stay coherent whether they land on a billboard or a mobile screen. You get the source files and the rules for using them.

Animation & Motion

Motion earns attention that static assets cannot. We produce explainers, product walkthroughs, animated logos and social cuts that make a complicated offering land in thirty seconds. Our motion team works from script to storyboard to final render, delivering in every aspect ratio your channels need.

Animation & Motion
Database Management

Database Management

Your data layer decides how fast everything above it can move. We tune slow queries, redesign schemas, set up replication and backups you have actually tested, and migrate legacy databases without losing a row. On-premise or managed, relational or document — we take ownership of the part of the stack most teams are afraid to touch.

Machine Learning Solutions

We build ML that survives contact with production. Forecasting, recommendation, document extraction, classification and LLM-backed assistants — scoped against a real business metric, evaluated honestly, and deployed with monitoring so you know the day the model starts drifting. No pilots that never leave the notebook.

Machine Learning Solutions

our internships

Four-week, mentor-led, project-based. Build something real, get reviewed on it, and leave with a certificate that means something.

Web Development

Web Development

Build and ship a full web application from the first commit to deployment. You will work with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and a modern framework, review pull requests with a mentor, and finish with a live project in your portfolio and a repository you are not embarrassed to link.

4 weeks
Graphic Design

Graphic Design

Work across brand systems, social campaigns, product screens and print collateral. You will take briefs, present work, take critique and iterate — the actual loop a design job runs on — and leave with a portfolio built around finished pieces rather than exercises.

4 weeks
Java Programming

Java Programming

Go from language fundamentals to a deployed Java web service. Collections, OOP, exception handling, JDBC, Spring Boot basics and testing — taught by building, not by slides. Ends with a working backend you designed and defended in review.

4 weeks
Android Development

Android Development

Ship a native Android app end to end. Layouts, navigation, local storage, API integration and Play Store packaging, worked through on a project of your own. Ideal if you want mobile on your CV with something installable to back it up.

4 weeks
Data Science

Data Science

Take a messy dataset from ingestion to insight. Cleaning, feature engineering, model selection, evaluation and communicating the result to people who do not read notebooks. You will present your findings the way an analyst actually has to.

4 weeks
Python Programming

Python Programming

Core Python through to a deployed application. Data structures, files and APIs, virtual environments, testing and a web framework — with weekly tasks that build on each other instead of resetting. Strong starting point for backend, data or automation work.

4 weeks
Data Analytics

Data Analytics

Learn the analyst toolkit properly — SQL, spreadsheets that scale, and a BI tool — then use it on a real business question. You will build a dashboard someone could actually run a decision on, and practise defending the numbers behind it.

4 weeks
Security Analyst

Security Analyst

Get hands-on with the defensive side: threat modelling, common web vulnerabilities, log analysis and incident write-ups. Everything runs against lab environments we provide, so you learn how attacks work in order to shut them down.

4 weeks
Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing

Deploy, containerise and automate. Core cloud services, Docker, a CI/CD pipeline and infrastructure as code, applied to an application you take all the way to a running environment with monitoring attached.

4 weeks

how it works

01

Register

Fill in the interest form for the track you want. It tells us where you are starting from.

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Get selected

Shortlisted applicants receive an offer letter by email before the cohort begins.

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Build

Four weeks of tasks and a project, with mentor reviews and a working cohort channel.

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Get certified

Submit before the deadline and receive a verifiable completion certificate and letter of recommendation.

our team

Arjun Mehta

Arjun Mehta

Founder & CEO
Riya Sharma

Riya Sharma

Head of Engineering
Dev Patel

Dev Patel

Design Lead
Neha Kulkarni

Neha Kulkarni

People & Programs

contact us

Contact us

visit us

Satya Niketan, South West
New Delhi, India — 110021

FAQ

Frequently asked questions
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How do I apply for an internship?

Pick the track you want in the internships section and submit the interest form. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and shortlisted candidates receive an offer letter by email before the cohort starts.

Your details, the track you are applying to, and a short summary of what you have built or studied so far. It is not a test — it tells your mentor where to start you, and whether you need any groundwork before week one.

If your form is complete you will get a selection email with your offer letter and onboarding details. Announcements, task drops and mentor sessions are all coordinated through the cohort channel you are added to.

Every track runs for four weeks. Expect roughly eight to ten hours a week — tasks are released weekly, and there is a final project reviewed at the end.

All tracks are fully remote and there is no fee to participate. You will need a laptop and a reliable internet connection.

Submit your tasks through the submission form before the deadline and your completion certificate is issued in the first week of the following month. Standout work also receives a letter of recommendation.