Software development · Washington, DC
Software development for Washington companies
Washington runs on the federal government and the contractors, associations and law firms arranged around it, with a cybersecurity concentration in Northern Virginia and a biotech corridor up the Maryland side that both answer to the same agencies.
Founded
2017, and still independent
Bench
115+ people, 80 Databricks-certified
Experience
Fifteen years average, per engineer
Serving
Washington, Arlington, Alexandria, Bethesda
Platforms for contractors and associations where the audit is not a phase at the end but the shape of the system: least privilege by default, every change through one pipeline, and evidence an assessor can read without a walkthrough.
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.
App development in Washington
Apps here are internal tools for contractors and member portals for associations, each with a security review before launch and a re-authorisation after every material change. We build them so the review reads the platform's own evidence rather than a document written the week before.
Mobile app developmentClients we have done this for
Fabric is our own governed platform: every mutation policy-gated, auditable and replayable. It is the control model federal work asks for, running in production.
AI systems · Our own product
Fabric
Fabric is a context store, memory and agent runtime built on Databricks, and it is the clearest evidence of what we build: across our clientele, work that took a team of ten now takes three.
The authorisation boundary decides the architecture
FedRAMP, NIST 800-53 and CMMC each want to know where the boundary is, what crosses it, and who approved the crossing. A system designed with the boundary drawn first is cheaper to authorise than one where it is drawn around whatever got built.
None of that is unusual for Washington, and none of it is a reason to build slowly. It is a reason to decide where the evidence comes from before the first handler is written, because the alternative is reconstructing it later from logs that were not designed to answer the question.
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.
Headquarters
1530 E Williams Field Rd, Ste 201Gilbert, AZ 85295
Phone
+1 (480) 681-6806Also
Amsterdam, Dnipro, Hyderabad
Working hours
Washington business hours, most days
FAQ
Software development in Washington: common questions
Do you work with Washington companies?
Yes, and with companies across the United States. Arizona does not observe daylight saving, so we are two hours behind you from November to March and three hours behind from March to November. That leaves most of your afternoon overlapping our morning, which is usually enough.
Do you have an office in Washington?
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 you build inside a FedRAMP or CMMC environment?
We build inside authorised boundaries and design so the evidence an assessor wants is produced by the platform: least privilege, an event trail on every change, grants that resolve at read time. The authorisation itself is yours and your assessor's, and we do not claim it on your behalf. What we do is make the package easy to assemble.
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.
Software development elsewhere
Other metros we publish this for. The full list is here.
New York, NY
New York, Brooklyn, Queens
Boston, MA
Boston, Cambridge, Somerville
Atlanta, GA
Atlanta, Alpharetta, Marietta
Miami, FL
Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Coral Gables
Charlotte, NC
Charlotte, Concord, Gastonia
Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia, King of Prussia, Wilmington
Detroit, MI
Detroit, Ann Arbor, Dearborn
Tampa, FL
Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater
Chicago, IL
Chicago, Naperville, Evanston