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Technology

Chosen for the problem, not the résumé.

We have preferences and we’ll defend them, but the deciding question is always what your team can operate at three in the morning — not what we most enjoy writing.

Frontend

5 technologies

React

4 projects

Component-driven UI at enterprise scale.

Next.js

9 projects

Hybrid rendering, edge delivery, and SEO by default.

TypeScript

16 projects

End-to-end type safety across the stack.

Tailwind CSS

Token-driven styling with zero runtime cost.

Vue

Progressive framework for incremental modernization.

Mobile

4 technologies

React Native

7 projects

One codebase, native feel on iOS and Android.

Swift

Native iOS where performance is non-negotiable.

Kotlin

Native Android with coroutine-based concurrency.

Flutter

Pixel-consistent cross-platform interfaces.

Backend

6 technologies

Node.js

10 projects

Event-driven services for I/O-heavy workloads.

Python

10 projects

The lingua franca of data and machine learning.

FastAPI

5 projects

Typed, async Python APIs with generated docs.

Go

4 projects

Low-latency services with predictable memory.

.NET

Enterprise workloads with long support horizons.

GraphQL

1 project

Client-shaped queries over federated domains.

Data

6 technologies

PostgreSQL

19 projects

Relational core with JSON and geospatial reach.

Redis

9 projects

Sub-millisecond caching, queues, and rate limits.

Apache Kafka

7 projects

Durable event backbone for real-time systems.

Snowflake

1 project

Elastic warehousing with workload isolation.

ClickHouse

1 project

Columnar analytics at billions of rows.

Elasticsearch

2 projects

Relevance-tuned search and observability.

AI & ML

4 technologies

PyTorch

1 project

Research-grade training and custom architectures.

LLM Systems

2 projects

Retrieval, evaluation, and guardrails in production.

Computer Vision

1 project

Detection and inspection on real-world imagery.

MLOps

2 projects

Versioned data, reproducible training, safe rollout.

Cloud

4 technologies

AWS

8 projects

Multi-account landing zones and managed services.

Azure

1 project

Identity-centric enterprise cloud estates.

Google Cloud

4 projects

Data and ML-forward platform workloads.

Kubernetes

5 projects

Portable orchestration with policy guardrails.

DevOps

4 technologies

Terraform

2 projects

Infrastructure as reviewable, testable code.

Docker

7 projects

Reproducible builds from laptop to production.

GitHub Actions

1 project

Pipelines that gate every merge.

Observability

3 projects

Traces, metrics, and SLOs that page a human.

Selection

How we actually decide

Four questions, applied in order. Most technology arguments resolve at the first or second.

  1. 01

    Can your team operate it?

    The best technology your team can't run at 3 a.m. is worse than the adequate one they can. This question eliminates more candidates than the other three combined.

  2. 02

    Does the problem actually require it?

    Most systems described as needing real-time streaming need a nightly batch job. We ask what decision changes if the data is an hour old, and the answer is frequently 'nothing'.

  3. 03

    What does it cost when it fails?

    Every dependency is a failure mode you've adopted. We weigh operational blast radius more heavily than feature richness.

  4. 04

    Can you leave it?

    We prefer choices with credible exits. Where lock-in is genuinely worth accepting — and sometimes it is — we say so explicitly rather than letting it accumulate silently.