Software development · Los Angeles, CA
Software development for Los Angeles companies
The launch date is fixed, a premiere, a product drop or a holiday surge, and the engineers who'd get your platform ready for it are still on the hiring plan. The senior engineers you meet join your team, build the platform and load-test it against that day's traffic, then stay to keep it running after launch. In Los Angeles that's a streaming service in Burbank, a drayage operator off San Pedro Bay, or a Fashion District apparel brand.
Founded
2017, and still independent
Bench
115+ engineers, 80 Databricks-certified
Experience
Fifteen years average, per engineer
Serving
Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Pasadena, Long Beach
Entertainment and the media infrastructure underneath it, aerospace in the South Bay, and the largest port complex in the western hemisphere. If you're in any of them, you hold audience, rights or logistics data at a scale where provenance is part of the answer.
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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.
App development in Los Angeles
Streaming, audience and logistics apps here are judged on the day the load arrives, never on the average day. We build the app and the backend to hold up under a launch, with staged rollout so a bad build reaches hundreds of people rather than millions.
Mobile app developmentDynamics 365 consultants in Los Angeles
Fashion District apparel brands, importers using the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and Burbank production companies run Dynamics 365 Business Central for inventory, landed cost and project accounting. We implement it with Dynamics 365 CRM and connect it to warehouses, customs brokers and ecommerce platforms.
Rights follow the content
Los Angeles is where SAG-AFTRA bargains and the studios in Burbank and Culver City keep their catalogues, where a licence is rarely a yes or no. Rights differ by territory, window and medium. Under California's AB 2602, a clause allowing a performer's digital replica can be unenforceable when it doesn't describe the use specifically and the performer had no lawyer or union negotiating for them. Retrieval that can't name its source contract can't show it stayed inside any of that.
The usual mistake is treating rights as a filter applied after retrieval, a list of blocked titles checked at the end. It misses the partial cases, such as the clip cleared for promotion in the US and nowhere else. We'd put the licence terms in the index beside each asset, so retrieval only ever sees what the person asking may use, and the citation is the proof.
So the first two weeks go on the rights data before anyone chooses a model. We take one catalogue, find where its terms really live, usually a rights system, a spreadsheet and the contracts themselves, and agree with your rights team what a correct answer has to cite. Retrieval gets built for that catalogue alone and scored against their questions before a second one joins.
Clients we have done this for
BZZR is a sports-only platform where live games, creator content and podcasts sit under team and talent control, and a pipeline indexes thousands of hours of partner video into a sports graph. Anyone holding a catalogue of owned and partner content has that indexing problem, and Databricks there also carries the analytics that tell a club who watched.
Sports media
BZZR
BZZR needed one platform for live games, creator video and podcasts, with analytics on Databricks that tell a club who actually watched, and our senior engineers built it through to production. When the Texas Rangers moved their streaming to it part-way through the 2026 season, existing subscribers came across without signing up again.
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 Los Angeles
Open source week in Pasadena
SCALE, the community-run Southern California Linux Expo, fills the Pasadena Convention Center from 1 to 4 April 2027 for its 24th edition, and DevOpsDays LA, the sixteenth in the city, runs inside it on 2 April. Before that, DevFest Los Angeles brings Firebase, Google Cloud and web workshops to the Braille Institute in East Hollywood on 12 December.
A platform built for a premiere night or a surge of containers off the San Pedro Bay terminals is judged on its worst hour. Four days of SCALE hallway talk in Pasadena will tell you which Postgres, Kubernetes and observability choices engineers here came to regret under load, and those regrets make a better requirements list than any benchmark. We load-test platforms against the day you're worried about.
The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro area. California: Los Angeles and Orange counties.
Lighter shape: the city itself. Dot: downtown. County boundaries from the US Census Bureau, 2023.
Conference · 1 to 4 April 2027
SCALE 24x (Southern California Linux Expo)
Four days of community-run open source talks in Pasadena reveal which Postgres, Kubernetes and observability choices held up under real load.
Volunteer organisers (LinuxFests). Pasadena Convention Center, 300 E Green St, Pasadena.
Conference · 2 April 2027
DevOpsDays Los Angeles 2027 (DevOpsDayLA 16x)
Platform engineering sits on this one-day programme beside AI guardrails, and hallway stories about failed releases make a better requirements list than benchmarks do.
SoCal DevOps community volunteers. Pasadena Convention Center, 300 E Green St, Pasadena.
User group · Several events a year
GDG Los Angeles (Google Developer Group)
Codelabs here are hands-on, so engineers can try Android, cloud and web tooling before your platform commits to any of it.
Google Developer Groups volunteers. Venues vary, often around Venice.
Conference · 12 December 2026
DevFest Los Angeles 2026
Firebase and Google Cloud workshops at the Braille Institute suit a team deciding how much backend to build itself and how much to rent.
GDG Cloud San Fernando Valley, with GDG Los Angeles. Braille Institute, 741 N Vermont Ave, East Hollywood.
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 Los Angeles: common questions
Do you work with Los Angeles companies?
Yes, and with companies across the United States. Arizona does not observe daylight saving, so from March to November we are on the same clock as you and from November to March we are an hour ahead. Either way the working day overlaps almost completely.
Do you have an office in Los Angeles?
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.
Can retrieval respect per-asset licensing?
Yes, and it has to. Every answer carries the documents behind it, so demonstrating that a system stayed inside its rights is a matter of reading the citation rather than reconstructing what the model saw. For media that is a rights requirement before it is a quality one.
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 Los Angeles
What else we build for Los Angeles companies.
AI consulting and development in Los Angeles
Your rights team won't let the AI pilot into production until every answer names the asset or licence behind it, and nobody on staff has time to build that.
Databricks consulting in Los Angeles
Your migration has stalled on the question licensors, customs brokers and finance all ask, which asset, record or shipment a figure came from.
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