# A small studio, deliberately.

oxlabs.dev is new. We’d rather tell you that up front than pad this page with a history we don’t have. What we can point at is the code, the stack, and how we work.

## A small philosophy, repeated daily.

The shortest path to good software is *engineers who care, in small groups, on real problems, long enough to see the work through.* Everything else follows from that.

We stay small on purpose. That puts a ceiling on how much we can take on at once, and we’d rather be straight about it than overcommit and hand your project to someone you’ve never met.

We pick technology the way you’d pick tools for a workshop, for the job, not for the brand. PostgreSQL is unfashionable; we’ll keep using it. Rust is fashionable; we use it where it earns its complexity. The hard part isn’t choosing the stack. It’s the next ten thousand decisions.

We write things down. The discovery doc, the architecture spec, the post-mortem, the runbook. Code is a means; the system that produced it has to outlive whoever wrote it.

## Six commitments, in priority order.

01

### Production as default.

We don't write throwaway code. A "prototype" lands in your repo, behind a feature flag, on the same CI as everything else.

02

### The boring choice, usually.

Postgres before SQLite cloud, monoliths before microservices, server-rendered before SPAs. We default to the option you can still hire for in five years.

03

### Types at every boundary.

Between client and server, between services, between modules. The compiler is a colleague who never gets tired of reading diffs.

04

### Performance is a feature.

Budgets in CI, traces in production. If a page takes a second to load, that's a defect, not a "follow-up."

05

### Async by default.

Long-form writing over standups. Considered comments over reactions. The work happens in the writing, not the meeting.

06

### Leave it better.

Every engagement ends with the codebase healthier than we found it, even the parts we didn't touch. The campsite rule, applied to systems.

## What we work in.

not a menu, the tools we use daily

Front end

React Next.js Svelte TypeScript Tailwind

Back end

Rust Node Postgres SQLite Cloudflare

Mobile

React Native Expo Flutter

Desktop

Tauri Electron Rust

If your project needs something outside this list, we’ll say so rather than learn it on your budget, and where we can, point you at someone who does it well.

## Named, accountable, reachable.

oxlabs is run by hmziqrs, a Senior Software Engineer with 9 years across the stack. The engineer in your kickoff is the one writing the code, reading the diffs, and on the other end of every reply — not a project manager and not a subcontractor.

See [the code we’ve shipped](/work), or read the long-form version on the [CV](https://cv.hmziq.rs).

## Tell us what you’re building.

Every email gets a real reply from someone who writes code, not a sales inbox.

[Start a project ](/contact)