A studio built on the belief that good software is mostly judgment.
Optimat Stone&Glass exists to do serious engineering work for organizations that need their technology to be quietly excellent. We are not a body shop and not a brand-led agency. We are a small group of practitioners who care deeply about what we ship.
Our mission
Help organizations build technology they can rely on for years, not quarters.
Most of the software that runs the world is unglamorous. It moves orders through warehouses, balances accounts at the end of the day, keeps schedules straight and turns raw data into the numbers a manager needs at 9am. Our mission is to build that software well — and to leave behind systems your team can confidently maintain on their own.
Values
Five working principles we do not negotiate on.
01
Craft
Care about the work because the work matters.
02
Clarity
Write things down. Say what you mean.
03
Honesty
Tell clients what is true, not what is comfortable.
04
Restraint
Use the smallest tool that solves the problem.
05
Stewardship
Leave the system better than we found it.
How we work
A practice, not a process diagram.
We treat every engagement as a relationship. We talk to the people who run the systems we are touching. We read the code that is already there before proposing to change it. We write the smallest possible thing that can be reviewed, deployed and observed — and then we do it again. Over a project, that adds up to something that holds together.
We work in regular cadence, share access to our notes and tickets, and treat the hand-over as a deliverable in its own right.
Technical mindset
Boring technology, applied with care.
We are skeptical of trends and friendly to fundamentals. The technologies we reach for first are the ones with two decades of production scars and a healthy community of maintainers behind them.
- Read first
- We read the existing code and infrastructure before recommending changes.
- Document always
- Every decision is captured in writing, in plain language.
- Test what matters
- Tests are written for the behaviour that would hurt to lose.
- Operate what we ship
- If we build it, we set up the monitoring and the runbook.
Experience
A long track record of shipping real systems.
Between us we have shipped warehouse and logistics platforms, financial back-office automations, education portals serving tens of thousands of users, internal data platforms for industrial operations, and identity systems used by employees and partners alike. Different domains, the same underlying instincts.
12+
Years of senior engineering
40+
Production systems delivered
6
Core disciplines practiced
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