Software development · Houston, TX
Software development for Houston companies
Your operations run on software nobody can change quickly, and your own engineers are booked until next year. Our senior engineers build the replacement alongside them, so you can show exactly what happened on any given night, and they stay through the first months in production. In Houston that's a pipeline operator's integrity records, an energy trader's scheduling system downtown, or a container yard at Port Houston's Barbours Cut terminal.
Founded
2017, and still independent
Bench
115+ engineers, 80 Databricks-certified
Experience
Fifteen years average, per engineer
Serving
Houston, Sugar Land, The Woodlands, Pasadena
Energy and petrochemicals on one side, the Texas Medical Center on the other, and a long tail of companies serving both. If you run one of them, you generate instrumented data at a volume where an AI answer without its source is unusable, and a regulator will eventually ask how a number was reached.
AzureTechFabric is a Databricks partner with an award-winning Databricks engineering team, 80 of them Databricks-certified, and a Temporal partner. Where a system reaches past the workspace we build on Azure, AWS and Google Cloud.
What software development covers
Web applications
Applications built to be changed safely years after the original team has moved on. That means tests that mean something, seams where the business logic can move, and a deployment nobody is afraid of.
Mobile applications
iOS and Android, built as products rather than as ports. The maintenance story is decided at the start, while it is still cheap.
APIs and integration
The seams between systems, done once and properly. Most of the expensive failures we are called into are integration failures wearing another name.
Data platforms
The layer underneath the application, on Databricks, Azure, AWS or Google Cloud. If the reporting and the application disagree, the platform is the reason.
Modernisation of what exists
Often the work arrives as something already built that has become hard to change. We would rather read it and tell you honestly whether it is worth keeping than sell a rewrite you may not need.
Durable, auditable workflows
Processes that take days, call several systems and must never half-complete. Getting that right is a different discipline from getting a request handler right, and it is where we spend most of our time.
Mobile and web apps for Houston companies
Your app has a launch date and no team to build it, and the version from the pilot slows down once real users and live sensor data arrive.
App development in HoustonDynamics 365 consultants in Houston
Oilfield services firms in the Energy Corridor, equipment distributors and Ship Channel engineering contractors in Houston use Dynamics 365 Business Central for job costing, rentals and field service billing. We implement it with Dynamics 365 CRM and connect both to field and maintenance systems, so the invoice matches the work done.
Two regulators can share one platform
Two of Houston's large producers of data answer to different rulebooks. A pipeline operator on the Ship Channel keeps integrity records that PHMSA audits under 49 CFR Parts 192 and 195. A sponsor running trials in the Texas Medical Center keeps electronic records under the FDA's 21 CFR Part 11, with HIPAA over the patient data, and the service firms working for both hold records under each.
The usual answer is a platform per regulator, and we'd argue against it every time. Two stacks double the audit surface, drift apart, and leave a reconciliation report between them that becomes the first thing an inspector asks about. We'd rather run one runtime and evaluate policy per action, so a Part 11 signature and a pipeline inspection record are different checkpoints on the same system.
The first two weeks produce a table before they produce code. Every action that touches regulated data gets a row naming the rule that governs it and whether it needs a recorded signature, a person's approval or only a log entry. The pipeline is built against that table, which means the audit trail exists from the first run instead of being reconstructed for the first audit.
Clients we have done this for
Sensor histories and clinical records come from systems that never shared a key, and the pipeline built for Athlinks deals with that shape, stitching more than 400 million athlete records from disparate sources. It runs on Temporal with automated retries and real-time visibility, so a failed step reruns and the run stays observable.
Health & Wellness
Athlinks
Athlinks had more than 400 million athlete records from sources that never agreed on who an athlete was, and a matching run that died halfway through couldn't just start again. Our engineers took the project from prototype to production as a serverless pipeline on AWS with Temporal holding the state. Failed steps now retry on their own, failures reach Slack as they happen, and the matching rules are tuned for each tier.
How an engagement runs
01
A technical conversation
Not a sales call. An engineer, asking what you are trying to do, what has been tried and what it will actually take. Where the work needs them, product and design people join the same conversation.
02
Two weeks, fixed fee
A short assessment ending in a written plan with a scope, a sequence and a number. You own the document whether or not you carry on with us.
03
Build with your team in the repo
Senior throughout, and no pyramid with one architect over a floor of juniors. The person in your standup is the person writing the code.
04
Run it
We stay on the pager. Nobody designs a fragile thing they will personally be woken by, which is most of why this arrangement produces different software.
Two weeks, fixed fee, and a written plan whether or not you build it with us.
Tell an engineer what you want to build
A senior engineer reads it and replies within one business day, usually with the questions that decide the first two weeks.
Around Houston
Houston developers, Wednesday and Sunday
The Houston Linux User Group meets every Wednesday evening at Sesh CoWorking in Midtown for talks and the odd workshop. Houston Code & Coffee is the Sunday-morning version, roughly monthly at Improving in Westchase, where developers of every level bring their own projects and work side by side. The Ion's public calendar adds community tech nights in Midtown through the year.
Plants and hospitals around Houston run through the night, so the software feeding them has overnight jobs that fail at three in the morning and need replaying before the day shift. A weekly Linux night at Sesh is a reminder of where that work actually happens, on servers somebody keeps up, and that operating habit is the thing to look for in whoever builds your platform.
The Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands metro area. Texas: Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, San Jacinto and Waller counties.
Lighter shape: the city itself. Dot: downtown. County boundaries from the US Census Bureau, 2023.
User group · Weekly, Wednesday evenings
Houston Linux User Group
Weekly and casual, it's the most regular chance to meet the engineers who keep servers and pipelines alive, the people any new platform gets handed to.
Volunteer organisers. Sesh CoWorking, 2808 Caroline St, Suite 100, Midtown.
Meetup · Monthly, usually a Sunday morning late in the month
Houston Code & Coffee
People work on their own code side by side here, and watching how someone works tells you more about their habits than an interview loop does.
Volunteer organisers. Improving, 10111 Richmond Ave, Suite 100, Westchase.
Hub · Ongoing, with a public events calendar
Ion District
Startups in the Ion and Greentown Labs need software built quickly and kept running, and the district's calendar lists the meetups where their engineers gather.
Rice University. The Ion, Midtown Houston.
Conference · 2 to 6 November 2026
AfroTech Conference 2026
Tracks on engineering and professional development across several stages make it a practical place to meet developers you might later hire.
AfroTech, part of Blavity. George R. Brown Convention Center, Downtown Houston.
Each listing was checked on its organiser's own page on 12 October 2026. Dates and venues move, so the link is the source.
FAQ
Software development in Houston: common questions
Do you work with Houston companies?
Yes, and with companies across the United States. Arizona does not observe daylight saving, so we are one hour behind you from November to March and two hours behind from March to November. A morning standup on your clock is still early afternoon on ours.
Do you have an office in Houston?
The office is in Gilbert, Arizona, with teams in Amsterdam, Dnipro and Hyderabad. Delivery is remote or hybrid, and we travel for discovery, workshops and the opening weeks of a build.
We have both energy operations and clinical research. One platform?
Yes, and without a fork. Policy is evaluated per action rather than per application, so two regimes with different rules run on the same runtime with different checkpoints enforced. Maintaining two platforms to satisfy two regulators is the expensive way to solve this.
What kinds of custom software do you build?
Web applications, mobile applications, APIs and the data platforms underneath them. The work we do best is the sort that has to be governed and auditable, where a wrong write is expensive and somebody has to be able to explain afterwards what changed and why.
Do you take over an existing codebase?
Often, yes. A good part of the work arrives as something already built that has become hard to change. We would rather read it and tell you honestly whether it is worth keeping than sell you a rewrite you may not need.
Where to go deeper
Web application development
Applications that hold up on the thousandth day
Mobile application development
iOS and Android, built to be maintained
Ecommerce development
The storefront and the ERP behind it
APIs and integration
The seams between systems, done once
Published work
Named clients and checkable outcomes
Also in Houston
What else we build for Houston companies.
AI consulting and development in Houston
Your AI pilot gives answers nobody on the plant floor or the ward will act on, because it can't show the sensor reading or record behind them.
Databricks consulting in Houston
Instrumented data at volume breaks a warehouse's cost model long before it breaks its schema.
App development in Houston
Your app has a launch date and no team to build it, and the version from the pilot slows down once real users and live sensor data arrive.
Software development elsewhere
The same work, in other metros. The full list is here.
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