Software development · Washington, DC
Software development for Washington, DC companies
Your new platform is late because the engineers who could build it are keeping the current one running, and it can't go live until an assessor sees where its data goes. We add senior engineers to your team who build it with least privilege, every change through one pipeline and evidence an assessor can read unaided. Around DC that's a contractor in Reston or Tysons, a K Street association's member system, or a law firm's case platform.
Founded
2017, and still independent
Bench
115+ engineers, 80 Databricks-certified
Experience
Fifteen years average, per engineer
Serving
Washington, Arlington, Alexandria, Bethesda
The federal government and the contractors, associations and law firms arranged around it, a cybersecurity concentration in Northern Virginia, and a biotech corridor up the Maryland side answering to the same agencies. If your work touches any of that, the assessor will ask for the authorisation boundary and the decision trail, and the system has to be built with 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 Washington, DC
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 developmentDynamics 365 consultants in Washington, DC
Contractors in Reston and Tysons, downtown associations and Dupont Circle nonprofits use Dynamics 365 Business Central for project and grant accounting, and Dynamics 365 CRM for members and donors. We implement both and build the cost reporting a contracting officer or a board expects.
The authorisation boundary decides the architecture
In DC, nothing reaches an agency's users without an authority to operate. FedRAMP, run by GSA from 1800 F Street, NIST SP 800-53 and, for defence contractors along the Dulles corridor, CMMC all ask the same three things. Where is the boundary, what crosses it, and who approved the crossing? A contractor in Reston or Tysons can't deliver until an assessor has those answers in writing.
Most teams draw the boundary last, around whatever got built, and then spend months writing a system security plan that explains a diagram nobody chose. We draw it on day one, because a design that keeps the model endpoint, the vector index and the logs inside the boundary is far cheaper to authorise than one that sends a prompt to a service the package never mentions.
The data flow comes first, with every external service listed and marked by which side of the boundary it sits on. Then we map the 800-53 controls the platform can produce its own evidence for, such as AC-2 for accounts and AU-2 for event logging. The build starts after that, and the audit record is written by the same code that makes the change.
Clients we have done this for
The SmartCert study is for anyone whose assessor or members ask where a document went and who handled it on the way. Its system replaced emailed attachments with a traceable exchange of certificates and quality documents between manufacturers, distributors and their customers.
Supply chain
SmartCert
Aerospace distributors were scrapping good parts because the certificates proving what they were got lost in email attachments. With Aramid, our senior engineers built SmartCert on Azure and took it into production. A QR code on each package opens the documents for that exact shipment, and links to Epicor Prophet 21 and Dynamics 365 Business Central mean nobody retypes a certificate. Since launch, none have been lost.
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 Washington, DC
Kubernetes on E Street
KCD Washington DC, the region's Kubernetes Community Days, moved from September to 13 April 2027 and will be held at the American Red Cross Hall of Service on E Street, alongside DC State of the Stack, the event that used to be DevOpsDays DC. DevFest DC comes round each late summer, and its fourteenth edition took George Mason's FUSE Center in Arlington with an AI build-a-thon beside the talks.
If your software has to pass an authorisation review, how a change reaches production matters as much as what the change does. An assessor will want a record for every deploy, and a pipeline that writes that record by itself costs far less than a document assembled the week before the review, and it's still accurate the week after.
The Washington-Arlington-Alexandria metro area. District of Columbia: District of Columbia. Maryland: Charles, Frederick, Montgomery and Prince George's counties. Virginia: Alexandria city, Arlington County, Clarke County, Culpeper County, Fairfax city, Fairfax County, Falls Church city, Fauquier County, Fredericksburg city, Loudoun County, Manassas city, Manassas Park city, Prince William County, Rappahannock County, Spotsylvania County, Stafford County and Warren County. West Virginia: Jefferson County.
Lighter shape: the city itself. Dot: downtown. County boundaries from the US Census Bureau, 2023.
Conference · 13 April 2027, date to be confirmed
KCD Washington DC (Kubernetes Community Days)
Held with DC State of the Stack, the old DevOpsDays DC, so delivery pipelines and how a change reaches production get as much time as clusters.
Volunteer organisers, part of CNCF's Kubernetes Community Days. American Red Cross Hall of Service, 1730 E St NW.
Conference · Annual, usually late June or early July
AWS Summit Washington, DC
The public sector is the whole audience, so a day there shows which AWS services an agency can lean on and which need extra paperwork.
Amazon Web Services. Washington DC, venue announced to registrants.
Conference · Annual, usually late August
DevFest DC
Code labs and an AI build-a-thon run side by side at George Mason's Arlington campus, a good look at the tools local developers pick up first.
GDG Washington DC volunteers. FUSE Center, George Mason University, 3351 Fairfax Dr, Arlington (2026).
User group · Several events a year, plus DevFest DC each summer
GDG Washington DC
Between DevFests, the smaller events let you ask developers what they use day to day, without a vendor booth in earshot.
Google Developer Groups volunteers. Washington DC area, venues vary, sometimes GWU.
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 Washington, DC: common questions
Do you work with Washington, DC 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, DC?
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.
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 Washington, DC
What else we build for Washington, DC companies.
AI consulting and development in Washington, DC
The agent your team piloted on agency data is stuck short of production, because nobody has time to show an assessor where its data goes.
Databricks consulting in Washington, DC
When an assessor asks where a figure in an agency-facing report came from and who could read it, the answer is scattered across SQL Server, Oracle and whatever was added later.
Software development elsewhere
The same work, in other metros. The full list is here.
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