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Engineering

End-to-end software for systems that must not fail.

Manifesto

Software is mostly written for the happy path. We aren't paid to do that.

The engagements that justify a studio rather than a contractor are systems where the cost of failure is non-trivial, a claim that doesn't process, a trade that doesn't reconcile, a patient who doesn't get treated. We engineer for those.

That means explicit error budgets, instrumented call paths, runbooks before launch, drills before downtime. The work compounds, every system we ship makes the next one cheaper to operate. We don't ship into someone else's pager.

The pillars
/ 01

Cloud-native architecture

Containers, Kubernetes, multi-region from day one. The cost of going there later is paid once; we'd rather not pay it twice.

  • K8s
  • Multi-region
  • Containers
  • 12-Factor
/ 02

Polyglot platforms

TypeScript and Python for product surfaces. Go and Rust for the parts that must not stall. Language is a tool, not a religion.

  • TS
  • Python
  • Go
  • Rust
/ 03

Observability before launch

Every call path instrumented, every SLO defined, every alert routed before the first user. If you can't see it, you can't operate it.

  • OTel
  • SLOs
  • Tracing
  • Honeycomb
/ 04

Continuous delivery

Daily deploys, canary releases, instant rollback. Feature flags as a discipline. Release cadence is a forcing function.

  • Canary
  • Feature flags
  • GitOps
  • Rollback
/ 05

Resilience as a feature

Chaos engineering, runbooks, DR drills. We don't trust uptime; we engineer it.

  • Chaos
  • Runbooks
  • DR
  • Game days

What we ship

  • Cloud-native architectures · Kubernetes · containerization
  • Web platforms · App development (iOS, Android)
  • Database design · data modelling · migrations
  • Automation, testing, and CI/CD pipelines

Stack

TS · Go · Rust · Python
AWS · GCP · Azure · K8s
The lattice · interactive

Four layers. Pick one to see what we engineer there.

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Application

Product code. Business logic. Where engineers spend most of their days. We engineer it so the rest of the stack stays out of the way.

  • React 19 / Next.js 16 product surfaces with server components
  • Type-safe API boundaries (tRPC, GraphQL Federation, OpenAPI)
  • Business-rule engines with explicit invariants
  • Feature-flag gates as a first-class deployment primitive
The network · 11 services · 16 flows

Layers explain structure. This explains who talks to whom.

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Legend
  • Gateway · request entry
  • Service · business logic
  • Store · persistent data
  • Observer · telemetry sidecar

Click any node to focus its connections.

Posture

99.99%
Production uptime · 2025
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Deploys per week · cross-engagement
6
Cloud regions · active
4+
Languages · per typical platform
Monitoring active
Frameworks & methodology
  • Twelve-Factor App
  • SRE
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Chaos Engineering
  • GitOps

Languages we ship

  • TypeScript
  • Go
  • Rust
  • Python
  • Kotlin
  • Swift
  • Java

Coverage

  • Distributed systems · event-driven
  • Real-time platforms
  • Mobile (iOS / Android)
  • Embedded · edge
Engagement · redacted sample

Engagement with Insurance, full-stack rebuild of claims platform. MTTR cut from 4h to 12 minutes via instrumented service mesh and canary deploys.

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