Software Engineering
As specialists in high-performance systems, machine learning, and security-focused engineering, Plaintextnerds is a boutique firm with deep expertise in network technologies, from optical systems (like OTDR, WDM, and QAM/Coherent waves) to network protocol design for games and real-time services.
With proven results operating on both green-field and brown-field development, our team is responsible for solutions that handle more than 500,000 transactions per minute, with response times of under 1 millisecond, in industries such as FinTech, Diamond Provenance, Competitive Gaming, Telecoms, and ISPs.
From idea to production, we build what you need.
Our Process
Your needs
We start by establishing what your requirements should be, discussing your use cases, vision, and relevant key business objectives.
Prototyping
All prototypes begin with sketches, and once you’re satisfied with the UX, we create a mock-up. Once you’re happy with the mock-up, we create a simple prototype to test its functionality.
The Build
Once the functionality is right, we build the solution, optimising the performance, and ensuring that it aligns with the business objectives. Once complete, we can also handle its deployment.
With over a decade and a half of building products and companies, we've got you covered.
Our Expertise
Each member of our engineering team is highly experienced and has built real-world products from the ground up. Each of our development squads is led by an engineer with more than a decade of experience.
Our backgrounds span finance, telecoms, and hosting at Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, and scale-ups. We’ve taken prototypes that handle fewer than 100 requests per minute and transformed them into production-ready solutions that process over 500,000.
We have spent our careers building real products that have a serious impact. From carbon-neutral distributed cloud infrastructure like Leaf.Cloud to proof of provenance blockchains like Tracr, to industry-shaping solutions like Lambdanetix, to social platforms like Lounge.