Small, senior, and still on the hook.
Alplus Technologies is a software engineering and product studio run by Paul Badarau. You talk to the person who designs and writes your software. There is no account manager, and nothing gets passed down a chain.
Why owning products changes the work
An agency is paid to deliver. It is rarely paid to be right a year later. That gap is where most software quietly rots: the integration nobody renewed, the migration nobody planned for, the dependency nobody updated.
We build and run our own products, so we are the ones who get the alert at 2am. It has made us conservative about dependencies, blunt about scope, and unusually interested in the boring parts: backups, releases, observability, and the cost of a decision three years out.
When we take on client work, that is the discipline you are buying. Not a bigger team, but a shorter distance between the person deciding and the person responsible.
A small number of things at once
We take on few projects deliberately. Attention is the scarce resource in this work, and splitting it is how quality goes.
Native where it matters, boring where it counts
Swift and SwiftUI on Apple platforms rather than a cross-platform compromise. Durable, unexciting infrastructure underneath, currently Cloudflare's edge for almost everything we run.
Built to be operated, not just delivered
Every system we hand over is one we would be willing to keep running ourselves. Usually we do.
Privacy as an engineering default
Several of our apps hold no personal data on any server we control, because the local-first version was the better design and not only the safer one.
European engineering discipline is where we come from. Latin America is where our attention has gone. We would rather say that plainly than put a flag on a page.
