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Two engineers. One boutique.

Manila Observatory of Software · Est. 2025
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Observer 01
Clark
Architecture Client Research

Self-taught Haskell and Unix by 15. First company at 19. Ran Southeast Asia's first AI interpretability lab. Pioneer tournament winner (2018). PyCon APAC 2025 keynote. He designs the systems and handles every client conversation: the engineer you talk to is the one who writes the code.

Specialisation
Systems & AI
Location
Manila, PH
First Code
Age 12
Pioneer
2018 Winner
Observer 02
Mikayla
Engineering Ops Compliance Contracts

Software engineer at a London healthtech startup. Handles ops, compliance, and the paperwork that won't do itself. She keeps the sprints on time and the contracts watertight.

Background
Healthtech / London
Focus
Ops & Compliance
Stack
C# / .NET
Domain
Contracts / SWE
Working Method
01

Minimum Lovable Product

We get you past the initial hump so you can validate the idea quickly. Then we either train your team to own it, or maintain it ourselves with our agent fleet. No padded roadmaps, no features that exist to justify the quote. The goal is the fastest path to something real users can use and pay for.

02

Scope Discipline

Features and constraints are agreed in the scoping call and that's what ships. Renegotiating scope is always on the table; it just means renegotiating timelines and payment terms. The spec is a contract, and it ships as written. We enforce it in your favour as much as ours.

03

Greenfield Preference

We don't rescue other people's broken codebases. We prefer to carve out our own domain, build it right, and interface via sensible APIs. Always: tests at every seam, clear data boundaries, observability, least-privilege access, audit logs.

Preferred Stack

Negotiable within reason. If you have existing systems, we'll meet you where you are.

Clojure ClojureScript (Reagent / React) C# / .NET Flutter (via ClojureDart) PostgreSQL Python (ML / DS only) Swift WebGL CUDA