International software engineering studio

Build it right.

We design, build, and run production systems for teams that can't afford to ship the wrong thing twice.

S/01 · Services

Four practices, one team, one bill.

We don't hand off between agencies. The engineer who scoped the work is the engineer who ships and supports it.

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Product Engineering

End-to-end builds for new products and major feature lines. We own the brief from problem definition through launch and the first three months of iteration.

  • Discovery, roadmap, RFCs
  • Web and native apps, server-side and edge
  • Design systems and component libraries
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Platform & Infrastructure

Cloud, CI/CD, observability, and the boring layers that decide whether 2am pages are rare or routine.

  • AWS, GCP, on-prem, hybrid
  • Terraform, Pulumi, Kubernetes
  • Cost, security, and SLO posture
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AI Integration

LLM and ML capabilities wired into your existing product surface, with eval harnesses and rollback paths from day one.

  • RAG, agents, tool-use pipelines
  • Eval suites, prompt versioning
  • Cost controls and fallback strategy
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Technical Audits

A fixed-fee, fixed-window review of an existing system, ending in a written report that names risks, owners, and a sequenced remediation plan you can hand to whoever does the work.

  • Architecture, security, performance
  • Cost and vendor lock-in posture
  • Hiring and team-shape recommendations
S/02 · Process

Five stages. Every engagement.

The same shape whether you're shipping a new product, fixing a broken one, or planning the next 12 months.

  1. 01

    Discover

    Two weeks. We read the code, the contracts, and the org chart. We end with a written brief that names the actual problem, not the one in the request.

  2. 02

    Architect

    One short RFC per major decision. Trade-offs visible, rejected paths recorded. You own the document; we own the recommendation.

  3. 03

    Build

    Weekly demos, daily PRs, async-by-default communication. Anything we ship is something you can run yourself by the end of week one.

  4. 04

    Ship

    Staged rollout, real users, real telemetry. We define the success metric on day one and watch it ourselves through the first month.

  5. 05

    Iterate

    Optional 90-day support window. We answer pages, fix bugs, and write the runbook your team will inherit when we leave.

S/03 · Selected work

A few we can talk about.

Names are codenames. Scroll to drag the row.

01
Project Halyard · Marine logistics

Their dispatch system spent more time fighting itself than routing trucks.

We rewrote the dispatch core in Rust behind a feature flag and migrated traffic over six weeks. Old service deleted on day 47.

740ms 180ms p95
Rust Postgres Kafka Kubernetes
02
Project Quill · B2B SaaS

A six-year codebase nobody could change without three reviewers and a prayer.

Two engineers, twelve weeks, a working CI pipeline, a dependency-injected core, and the senior team back to writing features instead of writing memos.

11 day cycle 17 deploys / day
TypeScript Next.js Postgres CI/CD
03
Project Atlas · Healthcare AI

A clinical summarization model that worked in the demo and nowhere else.

We built the eval harness first, the retrieval pipeline second, the model boundary third. Each release ships behind a per-cohort flag with automatic rollback.

62% eval pass 94% with rollback
Python LLM eval FastAPI Observability

Yours next?

Three to five engineers. Twelve weeks. A working system in production with telemetry you can read and a runbook you can hand off.

S/04 · Why us

Six things we do that most don't.

Scroll through the workspace.

tags — why-us — Code
~/tags/principles/
01-tests.ts× 02-rfcs.md× 03-pager.yml× 04-friday.sh× 05-async.md× 06-deletion.diff×
 1 export const principle_01 = {
 2   rule: "We write tests.",
 3   // Not a coverage number on a dashboard.
 4   // Tests that catch the bug your customer
 5   // is about to file.
 6   ship: true,
 7 }
 1 # 02. We document decisions.
 2
 3 Every meaningful choice has a one-page RFC
 4 with the rejected paths preserved.
 5
 6 Your future self will thank us.
 1 # 03. We own production.
 2 pager:
 3   rotation: included
 4   paid_for_by: tags
 5   line_item: false
 6 # If we built it, we get the page.
 1 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 2 # 04. We ship on Fridays.
 3 git push origin main
 4 deploy --watch --duration "weekend"
 5 # Anything that can't survive a Friday deploy
 6 # isn't ready to deploy on Tuesday either.
 1 # 05. Async by default.
 2
 3 Written context. Recorded demos. Fewer meetings.
 4
 5 Your engineers stay in flow.
 6 Ours do too.
 1 # 06. Deletion is a feature.
 2 - legacy_payments_v1.ts
 3 - vendored_jquery_dialog.js
 4 - meeting_required.md
 5 + runbook_v2.md
 6 # Less code, less surface area, less to explain.
TERMINAL · zsh
$ tags --principles --watch
[12:01:04] OK loaded 01-tests.ts [12:01:09] OK loaded 02-rfcs.md [12:01:14] OK loaded 03-pager.yml [12:01:19] OK loaded 04-friday.sh [12:01:24] OK loaded 05-async.md [12:01:29] OK loaded 06-deletion.diff DONE 6 principles, 0 errors.
S/05 · Global by design

Async-first across timezones. Your inbox at 9am, ours too.

Engineers in five timezones means there's almost always someone awake when something needs attention. Not on call, just available.

S/06 · Get in touch

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