Independent Engineering Bureau
Lab Status: Operational
01 · Software Development Center

Engineering teams that ship production software end-to-end.

Our development center builds sophisticated backend and web systems for clients who need a full product delivered, not a pile of tickets closed. We also license platforms we have already built in-house, so you can start from a working system instead of a blank repo.

Model
Named pod, one accountable lead
Team size
3–10 engineers per pod
Min. engagement
12 weeks
Location
HK · PH · EU

Capabilities

What our development center is built to do.

01

Turnkey product engineering

End-to-end delivery of a working product — discovery, architecture, build, integration and handover. One accountable team, one delivery plan, one line of ownership from first commit to production cutover.

02

Sophisticated backend systems

Event-driven and transactional backends built on Java and Python, with Kafka for streaming, Postgres as the system of record, and Docker-based deployment. Designed for throughput, traceability and long service life.

03

Front-end & web engineering

Production React front-ends for operator consoles, back-office tools and customer-facing surfaces. Typed end-to-end, tested, and shipped with the same evidence discipline as the backend behind them.

04

IP licensing & white-label platforms

Where we have already built a platform in-house, we license it. You get a working system on day one, and an engineering team that knows every corner of it for the extensions and integrations you need.

05

Web automation & integrations

Automation of workflows that sit between systems — data extraction, orchestration, batch processing, and integrations against APIs and portals that were never designed to be integrated with.

06

Applied ML & LLMOps

Practical machine-learning and LLM work: retrieval pipelines, evaluation harnesses, prompt and model versioning, guardrails, and the operational scaffolding needed to run a model in production and know when it drifts.

We do not build firmware or embedded software.

Engineering stack

Conservative choices, well-understood tools.

We bias toward technology with a long track record and a large operator community — and reach for the modern option only where it earns its place.

Languages
Java · Python · TypeScript
Frontend
React ecosystem
Backend & data
Kafka · Postgres · REST / event-driven services
Runtime
Docker · cloud (AWS / GCP / Azure) · on-premise
Automation
Web automation harnesses · scheduled jobs · integrations
AI stack
ML pipelines · LLMOps · evaluation & guardrails

Delivery model

How a build engagement runs.

  1. 01

    Discovery & scoping

    A short paid discovery to lock scope, non-functionals and success criteria before a delivery plan is signed.

  2. 02

    Pod formation

    A named pod — tech lead, engineers, QA — assembled from the HK, PH and EU bench for the workload profile.

  3. 03

    Iterative delivery

    Two-week cycles with running software from the first iteration. Written change log, demo, and a decision trail per cycle.

  4. 04

    Cutover & handover

    Production cutover with a documented rollback path, followed by knowledge transfer or a managed-services handover to our back-office team.