What We Do
Software Engineering
Backend systems, APIs, and applications built for the long haul. We write code your team will actually want to maintain.
Platform & Cloud
Infrastructure that stays out of your way. Multi-cloud, containers, CI/CD—whatever gets you shipping faster.
Data & Analytics
Data pipelines that don't break at 3am. Analytics that answer real questions. ML when it actually makes sense.
Security & Compliance
SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS—we've done them all. Security baked in from day one, not bolted on later.
The Experience Behind the Work
What you get from a team that's seen the full lifecycle—many times over.
We've Shipped Before
Not prototypes. Not demos. Real systems handling real traffic for real businesses. We've felt the 3am pages and the board-level escalations. That shapes how we build.
We Think in Timelines
Every technical decision has a half-life. We design for where you'll be in two years, not just what works today. The boring choice is often the right one.
We Become Your Team
We don't throw work over a wall. We pair with your engineers, share our reasoning, and leave your team stronger than we found them.
We Respect Constraints
Perfect systems don't ship. We work within your budget, timeline, and existing technology—finding creative solutions inside real-world limits.
We Ask Hard Questions
Before building anything, we make sure it's the right thing to build. Sometimes the best engineering decision is not to engineer.
We Document Like We'll Forget
Because eventually, someone will. Every decision, every trade-off, every 'why' gets captured. Your future selves will thank us.
What Changes
The difference between systems built with experience and those built without.
Engineering Across the Product Lifecycle
Whether you're staring at a blank editor or a legacy monolith, we provide the technical sovereignty to move forward with certainty.
Building for the Unwritten Future
Every great system begins with a blank page and a series of high-stakes bets. In the first month, you aren't just writing code; you’re setting the 'gravity' of your platform. We bring the pattern recognition of a thousand launches to ensure your foundation is an asset that compounds, rather than a debt that eventually defaults.
First-Principles Architecture
Defining boundaries and data models that allow your product to pivot without a total rewrite.
The 'Anti-Hype' Stack
Selecting technologies based on stability, talent markets, and the 5-year horizon, not Twitter trends.
Surgical MVP Strategy
Aggressively stripping the scope to its most powerful core while maintaining professional-grade integrity.
Engineering DNA
Establishing the CI/CD, testing standards, and culture that top-tier developers actually want to work in.
Changing Engines at 30,000 Feet
True seniority isn't found in building new things—it's found in the high-wire act of evolving what exists. We specialize in the 'Strangler' pattern: incrementally replacing the brittle parts of your system while it’s under full load. No 'big bang' rewrites that fail; just steady, invisible modernization that unlocks your team’s velocity.
Legacy Liquidation
Identifying and decoupling the 'ball and chain' modules that are holding your roadmap hostage.
Zero-Downtime Migrations
The art of the invisible shift. We move data and logic while your users never feel a flicker.
Performance Forensics
Deep-trace analysis to find the 'ghosts in the machine' slowing down your production environment.
Pragmatic Refactoring
Targeted interventions where they matter most, improving the system without stopping the world.
Surviving Your Own Success
Scale is the ultimate truth-teller; it finds every crack in your architecture and widens it. We’ve managed the chaos of 100x traffic spikes and global expansion. We bring the operational rigor to ensure your infrastructure becomes 'boring' again. Because in our world, boring is the highest form of engineering excellence.
High-Load Resilience
Building self-healing systems and circuit breakers that protect your core when the world knocks.
The Economics of Infrastructure
Re-engineering for cloud efficiency so your margins grow faster than your cloud bill.
Observability as Strategy
Moving beyond logs to deep telemetry that tells you *why* something is happening before it breaks.
Reliability Culture
Implementing the SLOs and incident response protocols that turn 'firefighting' into 'fireproofing'.
Force Multipliers
Sometimes the hardest problems aren't technical—they’re human. We act as a strategic shadow to your leadership, providing the 'second opinion' that prevents million-dollar detours. We’ve mentored hundreds of engineers; our goal isn't just to hand over code, but to leave you with a team that is significantly more formidable than when we arrived.
Fractional CTO Sovereignty
Expert-level guidance on roadmaps, hiring, and the 'Buy vs. Build' dilemmas that define companies.
Deep-Dive Audits
Unbiased, ruthless reviews of codebases and security postures to find the bodies before they're buried.
Architecture Mentorship
Levelling up your senior talent through pair-programming on the most complex parts of the stack.
Team Recovery
Stepping into stalled projects to reset the culture, clarify the mission, and ship the product.
How Engagements Work
Predictable, transparent, no surprises.
Listen
We start by understanding—your systems, your constraints, your goals, your concerns. The best solutions come from deeply understanding the problem.
Design
Architecture before code. You'll see diagrams, trade-off analyses, and options before we write a line. Decisions are made together.
Deliver
Iterative, demonstrable progress. You see working software regularly, not just status reports. Course corrections happen early.
Transfer
We're not building dependency. Documentation, training, and gradual handoff ensure your team owns everything when we step back.
Why Teams Stay
Most of our relationships are measured in years, not months.
Whether you're exploring a new idea or navigating a complex technical challenge, we're happy to talk. No pitch, just a conversation with engineers who've likely seen something similar.
Start a conversationFrequently Asked Questions
What kind of projects do you take on?
+We’re generalists with depth. Complex backend systems, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, security-critical applications, and modernization efforts are our core. But we’ve also built consumer apps, IoT platforms, and research prototypes. If it’s technically interesting and the team fit is right, we’re probably interested.
Do you work with startups or only enterprises?
+Both, but the engagement style differs. Startups often need embedded engineers who can move fast and wear multiple hats. Enterprises typically need specialized expertise for specific initiatives. We’re honest about fit—if we’re not the right choice, we’ll tell you.
How do you staff projects?
+Senior engineers only. Everyone on our team has shipped production systems and led projects. We don’t have a bench of juniors learning on your dime. The people you meet are the people who do the work.
Can you work alongside our internal team?
+That’s our preferred model. We embed with your engineers, share context continuously, and make knowledge transfer a natural byproduct of the work. When we leave, your team should be stronger, not dependent.
What technologies do you specialize in?
+We’re polyglot and pragmatic. TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java—we’ve built production systems in all of them. Cloud-wise, we’re deep in AWS, GCP, and Azure. But technology selection is always contextual. We’ll use what’s right for your situation.
How do you handle pricing?
+Time and materials for ongoing work, fixed price when scope is genuinely fixed. We’re transparent about costs before anything starts. No surprises, no scope creep bills. If something changes, we talk about it first.
What does a typical engagement timeline look like?
+Most projects start as 3-6 month focused engagements. Many evolve into multi-year partnerships. We ramp up quickly—usually productive in week one—and we’re honest about when the work is done.
What if we're not sure what we need yet?
+That’s fine. We do discovery engagements specifically for this—a few weeks of deep investigation that ends with a clear understanding of the problem and a realistic roadmap. Sometimes the best outcome is clarity, even if it means not building anything.