Plaintextnerds

Software Engineering Consultancy

Plaintextnerds is a London-based consultancy firm of software, data, and network engineers with decades of experience building products that change the world.

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Why us?

We’re a team of enthusiastic engineers who seek out innovation, drive creativity, and deliver scalable and performant solutions. Led by Tim Armstrong, the Lead Engineer behind projects like DeBeer’s Diamond Provenance Blockchain, Tracr.

Idea

Idea

You have an idea for a product, but don't have the team to build it.

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Deployment

Deployment

We help you through ideation, validation, implementation, production, and beyond.

Security vulnerabilities

Security vulnerabilities

The days of running bi-annual pentests and calling it good are long gone, bot networks scan everything you put online in seconds of it going live.

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Automated security pipelines

Automated security pipelines

We help you set up Dynamic Analysis Security testing (DAST), Static Analysis Security Testing (SAST), and Linting pipelines to validate your code before it goes live, and can even handle remediation of any detected issues.

Raw Data

Raw Data

Whatever the data, from Optical Time Delay Reflectometry (OTDR) to financial transactions to 3D point-clouds of diamonds.

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Specialised AI Models

Specialised AI Models

We build models to identify, isolate, and classify the features.

Laggy and Slow services

Laggy and Slow services

Modern software teams move fast, and don't usually have the time to prioritise performance until it becomes a problem, and when they do a lot of them don't know how to go about diagnosing and fixing performance issues.

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Performance optimised solutions

Performance optimised solutions

Our team have extensive experience in performance optimisation, solving issues in days that take internal teams weeks to even identify.

Vibes

Vibes

Vibe-coding is a great way to build a prototype and validate product-market fit, but what happens next? How do you take it to production without becoming another Tea App?

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Production

Production

With backgrounds spanning Finance, Telecoms, Cloud/Hosting, and SaaS from Start-ups and Scale-ups to Enterprise, our team of expert engineers understand building, deploying, and operating production services at every scale.

By the numbers

Experts in 14+ programming languages

Each senior member of our team has over a decade of experience in several programming languages, from HTML & Javascript to Rust & C++

Experts in 14+ programming languages

Maintainers of 6+ open-source projects

We give back to the internet, maintaining and contributing the tools and libraries that we find useful in our work, or for the benefit of the internet.

Maintainers of 6+ open-source projects

100% committed to excellence

We aim to excel in everything we produce, from code to documentation, and take feedback seriously. We want to know that we're delivering the best experience at all times. If we fall short at any point let us know.

100% committed to excellence

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