We build software
that holds.
The pampa fed half the world because its soil runs deep. We engineer the same way — production-grade foundations your business can actually take root in.
Why Pampaware
The pitch
in five lines.
Everything below is evidence for these five claims. If any of them sound off for what you're building, we probably aren't the right shop.
What's under the surface
is what holds it up.
- no auth layer beneath the form
- no transactions on the writes
- no tests on the payment path
- no backups, no replicas, no plan
- no observability when it breaks
- RESULT: the first storm collapses the surface.
- SECURITY secure auth · safe sessions · CSRF · audit trail
- DATA INTEGRITY transactions · idempotency · recoverable backups
- SCALABILITY fault-tolerant · replicas · queues · caching
- MAINTAINABILITY KISS · SOLID · DRY · cohesive · idiomatic
- OBSERVABILITY traces · structured logs · SLOs · runbooks
- DELIVERY preview envs · CI · zero-downtime deploys
Same plant on the surface. Completely different fate when the weather turns.
Beyond the code
Production-grade
is the floor.
The product is the point.
Robust software is what we're known for. But the work doesn't end there — we sit with you in discovery, sweat the design, and stay close to your customers until the thing actually lands.
Four ways
we work.
Foundation assessment
A senior read of your codebase, your situation, and your launch risks. You walk away with a written assessment of what's solid, what's at risk, and the riskiest thing to shore up first — whether or not you hire us next.
Production hardening
We take a working-but-fragile thing — usually built fast, often with AI tools — and make it shippable. Auth, data integrity, observability, deploys. The stuff that breaks in front of customers, fixed before it does.
Discovery + build
For founders pre-prototype, or with a prototype pointed the wrong way. Interviews, the bet on a page, prototypes, design — and only when the bet is sharp, code. Sometimes we never write any.
Senior on call
Async code review, weekly sync, the senior judgment your AI tools can't give you. Keep building yourself. We catch what would have broken.
Foundation assessment
A senior read of your codebase, your situation, and your launch risks. You walk away with a written assessment of what's solid, what's at risk, and the riskiest thing to shore up first — whether or not you hire us next.
Production hardening
We take a working-but-fragile thing — usually built fast, often with AI tools — and make it shippable. Auth, data integrity, observability, deploys. The stuff that breaks in front of customers, fixed before it does.
Discovery + build
For founders pre-prototype, or with a prototype pointed the wrong way. Interviews, the bet on a page, prototypes, design — and only when the bet is sharp, code. Sometimes we never write any.
Senior on call
Async code review, weekly sync, the senior judgment your AI tools can't give you. Keep building yourself. We catch what would have broken.
Builders,
not just builders-for-hire.
We don't just talk about shipping. We've carried products from prototype to acquisition — Restorando, Getro — and we know what production looks like when there's nobody to escalate to.
Who you'll work with
15+ years building software for startups. Two acquisitions — Restorando (acquired by TheFork) and Getro (now a Findem company) — and products shipped from scratch across restaurant reservations, VC talent platforms, and brand-protection marketplaces.
He's joined by a small bench of collaborators from across that career — engineers, designers, and product people who care about the craft. We stay deliberately small. You always know who's writing the code.
Ground that holds.
Send us the repo.
A short, free diagnostic: where the foundation is thin, what we'd shore up first, and an honest estimate of the work to get your business onto soil that holds.
Have a repo? Send the link. Just an idea? Tell us in a paragraph. We respond to both.
Engagements start at ~$130/hour · hello@pampaware.com