As an Indian dev living in India, i'd like to offer a bit of background. I'm currently doing my 3rd year at Uni and mostly do contract projects which encompass building/maintaining/optimizing deep learning and machine learning models. I also do a lot of data analysis work, data migration, etc, etc. The developers I work with and who I am around will never work for an outsourcing company. The outsourcing companies hire devs for as little as INR25000 (USD363.34) a month and use them for websites/native apps, etc. Mainly a lot of grunt work. If you really want to hire good Indian devs, try looking at LinkedIn and go for the younger, just out of a good Uni lot for dev work. Consulting is a whole different outlook here.