/01Engineered
Custom Software Development
Greenfield platforms, internal tools, and complex domain systems.
Engineering since 2019
We build the quiet infrastructure behind loud, ambitious products.
GRAPE & BERRY LIMITED is an independent IT engineering studio. We design software, cloud platforms, and security programmes that hold up at 3 a.m. on a holiday weekend.
- 120+
- Systems shipped
- 99.98%
- Median uptime
- 24 / 7
- Operational reach
deploy.log
> build ✓ 12.4s > tests ✓ 1,284 > ship ✓ eu-west-2
◆ TYPESCRIPT◆ GO◆ RUST◆ PYTHON◆ KUBERNETES◆ TERRAFORM◆ POSTGRES◆ AWS◆ GCP◆ AZURE◆ REACT◆ NEXT.JS◆ NODE◆ GRAPHQL◆ KAFKA◆ REDIS◆ TYPESCRIPT◆ GO◆ RUST◆ PYTHON◆ KUBERNETES◆ TERRAFORM◆ POSTGRES◆ AWS◆ GCP◆ AZURE◆ REACT◆ NEXT.JS◆ NODE◆ GRAPHQL◆ KAFKA◆ REDIS
Remote-first, EU & UK timezones
/01 — Who we are
A small studio of senior engineers, not a body shop.
We're a tight, opinionated team that takes the long view. Every engagement is staffed with experienced engineers who write code, run incident reviews, and stay accountable for the systems they ship.
- Senior-only delivery. No hidden offshore handoffs.
- Source-available code from day one. You own everything.
- Operational runbooks shipped alongside features.
/02 — Expertise
Deep stacks, no buzzword fluff.
We pick boring, proven tools by default — and reach for the new ones only when they earn their keep.
01
Languages
- TypeScript
- Go
- Rust
- Python
- Kotlin
- Swift
02
Cloud & Infra
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Pulumi
03
Data
- PostgreSQL
- ClickHouse
- Kafka
- Redis
- BigQuery
- DuckDB
04
Frontend
- React
- Next.js
- TanStack
- Svelte
- Tailwind
- Framer Motion
/03 — Services
Eight disciplines. One delivery team.
We work across the lifecycle — discovery, design, build, operate — so the system you launch is the same one we stay accountable for.
/02Engineered
Web Development
Marketing sites, dashboards, and high-performance web apps.
/03Engineered
Cloud Solutions
Multi-cloud architecture, migration, and cost-aware platform design.
/04Engineered
IT Consulting
Tech strategy, architecture reviews, and modernisation roadmaps.
/05Engineered
Cybersecurity
Threat modelling, hardening, incident response, and compliance.
/06Engineered
DevOps
CI/CD, observability, IaC, and 24/7 platform operations.
/07Engineered
UI / UX Design
Research-led product design and interface systems.
/08Engineered
Technical Support
SLA-backed maintenance, on-call rotations, and triage.
/04 — Industries
Where we operate.
Cross-sector engineering
- SECTOR · 01
Fintech & Payments
Ledgers, settlement systems, KYC/AML pipelines.
- SECTOR · 02
Healthcare & Med-Tech
HIPAA-aware platforms, clinical workflows, devices.
- SECTOR · 03
SaaS & Platforms
Multi-tenant infrastructure, billing, telemetry.
- SECTOR · 04
Logistics & Supply
Route optimisation, fleet, warehouse automation.
- SECTOR · 05
Media & Entertainment
Streaming, content pipelines, recommendation.
- SECTOR · 06
Industrial & IoT
Edge compute, time-series data, telemetry meshes.
/05 — Process
A loop, not a waterfall.
We run in tight feedback cycles so the work compounds. Every increment ships behind feature flags and instrumented from the start.
- 1
Discover
Stakeholder interviews, system audit, risk mapping. We arrive curious, not prescriptive.
- 2
Design
Architecture diagrams, threat models, and lightweight prototypes before any production code.
- 3
Build
Two-week increments. Trunk-based development, code review, full CI from commit one.
- 4
Operate
Observability, runbooks, on-call rotations. We stay on the pager with your team.
/06 — Why us
Six reasons clients keep us on retainer.
01
Senior, accountable engineers
Every line of code is written by someone who has been on call before.
02
Source-available, always
You own the repo, the infra, the documentation, the runbooks.
03
Outcome-bound contracts
We scope work around measurable outcomes — not seat counts.
04
Boring tech first
Postgres before NoSQL. Monoliths before microservices. Until they need to grow.
05
Security at the seam
Threat modelling and dependency hygiene start in week one.
06
Quiet handover
Engagements end with documented systems your team can operate alone.
/07 — Team
25 engineers. Average 12 years shipping production systems.
We hire slowly and stay together. Most of our team have led platforms at companies you've heard of — and chose to do their best work in a smaller, sharper studio.
Principal Engineers07
Cloud & Platform05
Security Specialists03
Product Designers04
SREs / On-Call04
Engineering Managers02
/08 — Field notes
Rebuilding a payments ledger without a maintenance window.
A regulated fintech client needed to migrate a 9-year-old ledger handling 1.4 billion daily entries onto a new event-sourced architecture — with zero customer-visible downtime and no data loss.
- Migration
- 11 wk
- Downtime
- 0 s
- Cost cut
- −38%
They embedded with our engineers, owned the hardest part of the migration, and handed it back with a runbook our junior on-call could follow. Rare.
/09 — Security & reliability
Resilience is a feature we ship — not a hope we hold.
We treat security and operability as first-class product concerns. Hardening, observability, and recovery paths are built in from day one, not bolted on before launch.
- SOC 2-aligned engineering practices
- Encryption at rest and in transit, key rotation by default
- Threat modelling in design phase, not at the end
- Dependency scanning and SBOM on every build
- Quarterly red-team exercises and incident drills
- Strict least-privilege access; auditable trails
/10 — Reach us
Got a system that needs to be reliable, secure, and quietly excellent?
We respond to every serious enquiry within one working day. Tell us what you're building and where it hurts — we'll write back with the engineers who can help.
- manuellewis198@gmail.com
- Web
- grapeberryfarm.com
- Company
- GRAPE & BERRY LIMITED