3 senior engineers,
1 awesome team
Ready to scale your system, fix technical debt, and level up your developers—from day one.
Packing some 20 years of experience each, we've spent over 12 years together building, scaling, and mentoring teams. Now, we embed with yours.
Why work with us?
Your roadmap is stalling? Your team is streched thin and deadlines are
slipping? Between recruiting, screening, and notice periods, you're
looking at 3-6 months before a new hire contributes. Ugh.
That's where we step in: we embed with your teams and your business, taking on responsibility and ownership from day 1.
- Immediate Onboarding
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We are a battle-tested team people enjoy working with. We dive right in and start contributing immediately. No recruitment overhead, no long-term commitments, just senior expertise when you need it.
- Less Red Tape
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You get the skills your team needs for critical projects without the complexity of permanent headcount. When your project ships, we wrap up cleanly. If you need us again, we already know your systems.
- Back on Track
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And the best part? Your team grows stronger through daily collaboration with seasoned engineers while having weight lifted off their shoulders and enjoying the journey again. Your systems improve, delivery accelerates, and the benefits last even when we're gone.
How we work
Getting stuff done
We seamlessly blend in with your existing team and hit the ground running, ready to take on responsibility, unblock, and deliver.
Team-oriented
We're your teammates who share your goals, challenges, and victories, with a professional, positive hands-on attitude, always ready to collaborate and share what we know.
He genuinely enjoys mentoring and elevating those around him, approaching teaching with patience, and humility.
Committed to Your Vision
Our approach is built on ownership, accountability, and long-term impact. We fully invest ourselves in your vision and let your goals guide every decision we make together. Success means creating lasting value that advances what matters most to you.
Proficient
Decades of experience in diverse industries have shown us what truly works and delivers real value. We approach every challenge from multiple angles, applying lessons learned in different contexts and teams. This translates into consistently reliable, high-quality work that moves your projects forward.
Who We Are
Three senior software engineers from Austria who specialize in embedding remotely with scaling companies, with decades of Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Vue, and cloud experience.
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Christoph Lupprich
With 15+ years of building and scaling web applications, Christoph is passionate about solving real business problems and bringing products to life from day one. He designs and implements scalable solutions, but equally enjoys diving into legacy systems to untangle complexity and improve performance.
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Fritz Grabo
Fritz brings 20+ years of system design and backend development expertise to scaling web applications. He's a clean code advocate and natural mentor who thrives on solving meaningful problems through collaboration, deep thinking, and battle-tested technology.
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Wolfgang Rittner
A hands-on software architect with 20+ years under his belt, Wolfgang excels at cutting through complexity and delivering practical solutions. He jumps in to understand system interactions and provide actionable insights that unblock teams and accelerate delivery.
We worked with awesome people
“All three of you were incredibly kind and thoughtful, always acting as sovereigns of the company vs mercenaries just trying to get paid.”
Christoph is one of the most skilled software engineers I've ever worked with. He designs elegant solutions to difficult problems. He works easily across any layer of the stack, and he frequently serves as a fountain of knowledge for the developers around him. I implicitly trust Christoph to solve any complex technical problem.
Fritz is a true technical leader. He seamlessly integrated into our team, taking on complex challenges and providing thoughtful, high-quality solutions. Fritz operates with a high degree of ownership and integrity, consistently delivering excellent results.
Wolfgang is a hands-on problem solver with a ton of experience navigating large and complex software systems. He has expert-level knowledge with Ruby on Rails, but his technical abilities transcend a particular stack.
Fritz is an extremely skilled and thoughtful software engineer who is a positive influence on his peers, and consistently raises the bar in a way that levels up any engineering team.
Fritz's ability to rapidly learn and master new technologies is remarkable, and he generously shares his knowledge with the team. Despite working in a different time zone, Fritz has consistently demonstrated a strong commitment to mentoring colleagues and actively contributing to project planning.
Wolfgang is a top-tier software engineer. He collaborated seamlessly, consistently delivering exceptional results. His deep technical knowledge and commitment to quality were critical to our product's success. He is reliable, proactive, and a true professional.
Fritz is one of the most talented and dedicated engineers I've had the pleasure of working with. Every project he touches benefits from his attention to detail, thoughtful preparation, deep understanding of both the technical and business context, and his genuine desire to build lasting, high-quality solutions.
Christoph's contributions were invaluable; his deep expertise in Ruby and Ruby on Rails, combined with his natural technical leadership, made him an indispensable part of our engineering group. Christoph is a true professional who consistently delivered high-quality, reliable work that was critical to our team's success. He integrated seamlessly and took ownership of complex challenges.
Outside of Christoph's incredible technical skill set as a Ruby on Rails developer, he is also a one-of-a-kind teammate. He is truly generous with his time, thoughtful in his approach, and is a great communicator who is an absolute pleasure to work with.
Wolfgang brings exceptional technical depth and navigates large, complex systems with ease. He not only listens and understands deeply but also proactively offers thoughtful recommendations, from individual lines of code to high-level architecture decisions.
Last: Speed Run turned Marathon
Our latest adventure started with a 2-week emergency speed run leading up to a critical board meeting at Optoro, a US-based startup that set out to revolutionize reverse logistics. We launched into action and enabled the team to make the deadline. Impressed, they brought us on permanently, and we quickly became core team members. Over the course of 12 years at Optoro, we helped level up their engineering teams and delivered systems that served major retailers like GAP, BestBuy, and IKEA.
"It's been a total pleasure working with you all over the past 10+ years - incredibly proficient and well-rounded at what you do, but more so, all three of you were incredible kind and thoughtful."
We built customer-facing platforms, warehouse systems, and integrations that processed 90M+ units annually—taking full ownership from frontend to backend, system design to operations.
- Remote first. We embedded remotely from Austria across EU and US East Coast time zones, proving that distance doesn't limit impact when you're dedicated.
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Do as the Austrians do.
Our effective approach earned us our reputation as MVPs. We set the standard others followed for code quality and engineering practices. - Versatile. Through all phases from early startup to successful acquisition, we navigated every scaling challenge: monolith-to-microservices migrations, on-premise to cloud infrastructure, critical Black Friday traffic spikes, and continuous feature delivery for demanding enterprise clients.
All of the way we took responsibility across the full stack—understanding business context, communicating with stakeholders, working with cross-functional team, designing solutions, and delivering reliable systems.