We are an artisan, Sydney-based product engineering consultancy
We design, architect, and engineer one of a kind products and solutions for organisations, non-profits and businesses.
We are an artisan, Sydney-based product engineering consultancy
We design, architect, and engineer one of a kind products and solutions for organisations, non-profits and businesses.
We are an artisan, Sydney-based product engineering consultancy
We design, architect, and engineer one of a kind products and solutions for organisations, non-profits and businesses.
Leaders in the field
Our consultants apply their expertise in fields as diverse as product, design, software engineering, computer science and pure mathematics.
Chris Lam
Software Architecture
A veteran software architect at Google for ChromeOS, Chris' fingers write brilliant code, play touching jazz improv on the piano, and clamber up remote mountain faces. If you've used Google products, chances are he's had a hand (or two) in architecting, building， maintaining and refactoring them.
Architectural Design and Review
Developer Mentoring
Code Health and Refactoring
Francois Wouts
Developer Experience
As a prolific indie dev tooling engineer, ex-Senior Staff Engineer at Airtasker and ex-Tech Lead at Google, Francois knows no fear in the face of even the most complex, tech-debt laden codebases. Along with a still Zen mind developed from years of yoga, it's no wonder he's the "Developer Happiness Engineer".
Developer Mentoring and Experience
Code Health and Refactoring
Architectural Design and Review
Compilers
Rachel Liang
Full-Stack and Product Design
Rachel is not only a "queen of all trades" but has that precious quality of genuinely caring for her fellow humans and humanity. Equally comfortable engineering infrastructure tools at Atlassian and leading product teams building social impact tools, you'll likely find her dancing up a storm in her spare time.
Product Management
Full-stack Engineering
Product Design
Visual Design
J. C.
Database and Backend
The keenest GoLang and database enthusiast you'll ever meet, J. builds the fastest and most reliable backends. Previously he built out Microsoft Azure infrastructure, and now he's engineering an acclaimed transactional database at a renowned startup. If it needs to scale, he knows how to do it.
Backend Architecture
Database Optimisation
Architectural Design and Review
DevOps
Rizky Wellyanto
AI and 3D/XR
With deep expertise in machine learning, 3D graphics, product management and entrepreneurship, Rizky is the quintessential polymath. As a PhD Candidate in AI at the renowned UIUC, he worked on experimental research at Snap and has published numerous papers in the fields of AR/VR.
Machine Learning and AI
3D Graphics and AR/MR/VR
Developer Mentoring
Product Management
Harrison Scott
Compilers and Full-Stack
Building out the backbone for acclaimed high frequency trading firm Optiver and the university medallist for software engineering, Harrison has placed top of so many academic courses that he probably finds what we do quite trivial. Nonetheless, we work with him as we hope one day he'll write a world class compiler and language for us.
Architectural Design and Review
Compilers
Full-Stack Engineering
Learn more about our people
Leaders in the field
Our consultants apply their expertise in fields as diverse as product, design, software engineering, computer science and pure mathematics.
Chris Lam
Software Architecture
A veteran software architect at Google for ChromeOS, Chris' fingers write brilliant code, play touching jazz improv on the piano, and clamber up remote mountain faces. If you've used Google products, chances are he's had a hand (or two) in architecting, building， maintaining and refactoring them.
Architectural Design and Review
Developer Mentoring
Code Health and Refactoring
Francois Wouts
Developer Experience
As a prolific indie dev tooling engineer, ex-Senior Staff Engineer at Airtasker and ex-Tech Lead at Google, Francois knows no fear in the face of even the most complex, tech-debt laden codebases. Along with a still Zen mind developed from years of yoga, it's no wonder he's the "Developer Happiness Engineer".
Developer Mentoring and Experience
Code Health and Refactoring
Architectural Design and Review
Compilers
Rachel Liang
Full-Stack and Product Design
Rachel is not only a "queen of all trades" but has that precious quality of genuinely caring for her fellow humans and humanity. Equally comfortable engineering infrastructure tools at Atlassian and leading product teams building social impact tools, you'll likely find her dancing up a storm in her spare time.
Product Management
Full-stack Engineering
Product Design
Visual Design
J. C.
Database and Backend
The keenest GoLang and database enthusiast you'll ever meet, J. builds the fastest and most reliable backends. Previously he built out Microsoft Azure infrastructure, and now he's engineering an acclaimed transactional database at a renowned startup. If it needs to scale, he knows how to do it.
Backend Architecture
Database Optimisation
Architectural Design and Review
DevOps
Rizky Wellyanto
AI and 3D/XR
A PhD candidate at UIUC in AI, Rizky is the quintessential polymath, with deep expertise in machine learning, 3D graphics and product management. Applying this, he worked on experimental research at Snap and has published various papers in the fields of AR/VR.
Machine Learning and AI
3D Graphics and AR/MR/VR
Developer Mentoring
Product Management
Harrison Scott
Compilers and Full-Stack
Building the backbone for acclaimed high frequency trading firm Optiver and the university medallist for software engineering, Harrison has come first in so many courses that he probably finds we do quite trivial. Nonetheless, it's the reason we work with him, as we hope one day he'll write a world class compiler and language for us.
Architectural Design and Review
Compilers
Full-Stack Engineering
Learn more about our people
Leaders in the field
Our consultants apply their expertise in fields as diverse as product, design, software engineering, computer science and pure mathematics.
Chris Lam
Software Architecture
A veteran software architect at Google for ChromeOS, Chris' fingers write brilliant code, play touching jazz improv on the piano, and clamber up remote mountain faces. If you've used Google products, chances are he's had a hand (or two) in architecting, building， maintaining and refactoring them.
Architectural Design and Review
Developer Mentoring
Code Health and Refactoring
Francois Wouts
Developer Experience
As a prolific indie dev tooling engineer, ex-Senior Staff Engineer at Airtasker and ex-Tech Lead at Google, Francois knows no fear in the face of even the most complex, tech-debt laden codebases. Along with a still Zen mind developed from years of yoga, it's no wonder he's the "Developer Happiness Engineer".
Developer Mentoring and Experience
Code Health and Refactoring
Architectural Design and Review
Compilers
Rachel Liang
Full-Stack and Product Design
Rachel is not only a "queen of all trades" but has that precious quality of genuinely caring for her fellow humans and humanity. Equally comfortable engineering infrastructure tools at Atlassian and leading product teams building social impact tools, you'll likely find her dancing up a storm in her spare time.
Product Management
Full-stack Engineering
Product Design
Visual Design
J. C.
Database and Backend
The keenest GoLang and database enthusiast you'll ever meet, J. builds the fastest and most reliable backends. With experience engineering the infrastructure at Microsoft Azure and also building out an acclaimed transactional database, if it needs to scale, he knows how to do it.
Backend Architecture
Database Optimisation
Architectural Design and Review
DevOps
Rizky Wellyanto
AI and 3D/XR
With deep expertise in machine learning, 3D graphics, product management and entrepreneurship, Rizky is the quintessential polymath. As a PhD Candidate in AI at the renowned UIUC, he worked on experimental research at Snap and has published numerous papers in the fields of AR/VR.
Machine Learning and AI
3D Graphics and AR/MR/VR
Developer Mentoring
Product Management
Harrison Scott
Compilers and Full-Stack
Building out the backbone for acclaimed high frequency trading firm Optiver and the university medallist for software engineering, Harrison has placed top of so many academic courses that he probably finds what we do quite trivial. Nonetheless, we work with him as we hope one day he'll write a world class compiler and language for us.
Architectural Design and Review
Compilers
Full-Stack Engineering
Learn more about our people
Beyond ordinary capabilities
Beyond ordinary capabilities
Beyond ordinary capabilities
We support you from idea through implementation, launch and finally maintenance. We provide value beyond merely building software, offering services to strengthen and supplement your team.
Design
Product Design
We help you distill your idea into a series of technically feasible features that deliver real value to your users, whether they be customers or internal employees.
Blueprint
Technical Architecture
We create a precise engineering-standard blueprint that defines the entire flow and interactions of product to be made. Included is the technical architecture and a proposed roadmap to delivery.
Build
Software Engineering
We gather a team of engineers, designers and product managers to build the product, from start to finish, with regular weekly updates.
Maintain
DevOps and Disaster Recovery
We maintain a DevOps team on your project in order to ensure high availability, uptime as well as prevention and recovery from unforeseen events.
Train
Knowledge Sharing
We share our engineering processes and knowledge with you and your team, so that you can hire talent and retain them going into the future.
Consult
Solve difficult problems
For new and established codebases, we help you solve difficult technical challenges that may be too specialised or complex for your existing team members to resolve.
Design
Product Design
We help you distill your idea into a series of technically feasible features that deliver real value to your users, whether they be customers or internal employees.
Blueprint
Technical Architecture
We create a precise engineering-standard blueprint that defines the entire flow and interactions of product to be made. Included is the technical architecture and a proposed roadmap to delivery.
Build
Software Engineering
We gather a team of engineers, designers and product managers to build the product, from start to finish, with regular weekly updates.
Maintain
DevOps and Disaster Recovery
We maintain a DevOps team on your project in order to ensure high availability, uptime as well as prevention and recovery from unforeseen events.
Train
Knowledge Sharing
We share our engineering processes and knowledge with you and your team, so that you can hire talent and retain them going into the future.
Consult
Solve difficult problems
For new and established codebases, we help you solve difficult technical challenges that may be too specialised or complex for your existing team members to resolve.
Design
Product Design
We help you distill your idea into a series of technically feasible features that deliver real value to your users, whether they be customers or internal employees.
Blueprint
Technical Architecture
We create a precise engineering-standard blueprint that defines the entire flow and interactions of product to be made. Included is the technical architecture and a proposed roadmap to delivery.
Build
Software Engineering
We gather a team of engineers, designers and product managers to build the product, from start to finish, with regular weekly updates.
Maintain
DevOps and Disaster Recovery
We maintain a DevOps team on your project in order to ensure high availability, uptime as well as prevention and recovery from unforeseen events.
Train
Knowledge Sharing
We share our engineering processes and knowledge with you and your team, so that you can hire talent and retain them going into the future.
Consult
Solve difficult problems
For new and established codebases, we help you solve difficult technical challenges that may be too specialised or complex for your existing team members to resolve.
Case Study
Case Study
Case Study
Payment Collection Platform - iOS, Android, Web, Backend
Overview
Overview
Overview
We worked with a client to build a payment collection platform that required integration at the processor level. This meant that rather than using a high-level payment facilitator with high processing fees (e.g. Stripe), we were required to directly connect to a lower level payment processor for more transparency and lower costs.
The client had previously outsourced to an agency but the resulting app had major problems in terms of design and functionality, with crashes a frequent occurence. So we were brought in to entirely rebuild the app and backend.
This required building a backend and database capable of handling a high volume of transactions with high availability. The client-side apps on web, iOS and Android would then interface with the backend to retrieve user and organisation data, as well as to make transactions.
Our rebuild was a resounding success and handled a high volume of transactions during many fundraising campaigns.
Technical Approach
Technical Approach
Technical Approach
Because the existing MVP exhibited technical and design issues, we revamped the visual design and functionality of the app, creating a mockup and then a visual prototype. After this was complete, we began architectural design to determine the most suitable architecture for this relatively complex project.
Once the scope of the project was more understood, we formed a product team composed of a backend specialist, architectural specialist and three full-stack engineers to build the backend, database and the web, iOS and Android apps.
We used Go for the backend, CockroachDB for the database and React, React Native and TypeScript for the web and mobile frontends, with other services such as authentication being handled by Google Firebase.
The result was a highly performant app that performed nearly three times as fast as the previous one, with the level of polish and feel of a top ranking app.
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The Stultus Studios difference
Due to a set of core values that we uncompromisingly stand by, we operate in a completely different league from other consultancies, agencies and dev shops.
True Ability
Our consultants are the amongst the very best at what they do. There is no doubt as to their ability. Whether it be DevOps, Backend, Compilers, Product Design or Pure Mathematics, our consultants are kind, passionate, insightful and experienced.
Simply Ethical
We abide by very simple values. We put the health, happiness, wellbeing and growth of our team, your team and the environment above all else. We work with companies and organisations that have a similar view.
Authentic Understanding
Everyone is required to have deep understanding and experience in their areas of expertise. Bluffing, approximations, hand waving, glossing over details and intellectual dishonesty or arrogance are not part of our culture.
Artisan Polish
Our engineers, designers and product managers genuinely care about the quality and maintainability of their designs and implementations. We're focused on doing it right, not on getting it done as quickly as possible.
Respected Partners
Our value add comes from deep experience across many projects so we'll meet you and your team in a spirit of equal partnership. If you need us to unquestioningly implement your ideas, then we're probably the wrong team for the job.
Continuous Visibility
We like working in the open, even when the edges are unpolished. From the very beginning you can expect to see and interact with our unfolding work, with consistent communication throughout.
The Stultus Studios difference
Due to a set of core values that we uncompromisingly stand by, we operate in a completely different league from other consultancies, agencies and dev shops.
True Ability
Our consultants are the amongst the very best at what they do. There is no doubt as to their ability. Whether it be DevOps, Backend, Compilers, Product Design or Pure Mathematics, our consultants are kind, passionate, insightful and experienced.
Simply Ethical
We abide by very simple values. We put the health, happiness, wellbeing and growth of our team, your team and the environment above all else. We work with companies and organisations that have a similar view.
Authentic Understanding
Everyone is required to have deep understanding and experience in their areas of expertise. Bluffing, approximations, hand waving, glossing over details and intellectual dishonesty or arrogance are not part of our culture.
Artisan Polish
Our engineers, designers and product managers genuinely care about the quality and maintainability of their designs and implementations. We're focused on doing it right, not on getting it done as quickly as possible.
Respected Partners
Our value add comes from deep experience across many projects so we'll meet you and your team in a spirit of equal partnership. If you need us to unquestioningly implement your ideas, then we're probably the wrong team for the job.
Continuous Visibility
We like working in the open, even when the edges are unpolished. From the very beginning you can expect to see and interact with our unfolding work, with consistent communication throughout.
The Stultus Studios difference
Due to a set of core values that we uncompromisingly stand by, we operate in a completely different league from other consultancies, agencies and dev shops.
True Ability
Our consultants are the amongst the very best at what they do. There is no doubt as to their ability. Whether it be DevOps, Backend, Compilers, Product Design or Pure Mathematics, our consultants are kind, passionate, insightful and experienced.
Simply Ethical
We abide by very simple values. We put the health, happiness, wellbeing and growth of our team, your team and the environment above all else. We work with companies and organisations that have a similar view.
Authentic Understanding
Everyone is required to have deep understanding and experience in their areas of expertise. Bluffing, approximations, hand waving, glossing over details and intellectual dishonesty or arrogance are not part of our culture.
Artisan Polish
Our engineers, designers and product managers genuinely care about the quality and maintainability of their designs and implementations. We're focused on doing it right, not on getting it done as quickly as possible.
Respected Partners
Our value add comes from deep experience across many projects so we'll meet you and your team in a spirit of equal partnership. If you need us to unquestioningly implement your ideas, then we're probably the wrong team for the job.
Continuous Visibility
We like working in the open, even when the edges are unpolished. From the very beginning you can expect to see and interact with our unfolding work, with consistent communication throughout.