Creative Destruction in Software Engineering.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects. — Robert A. Heinlein

Boutique engineering, global scale

100% practitoner-led expertise

Our leadership mantra: Coding and coaching on a daily basis. Management and business are functions, not roles. Everyone is a technical contributor. Our overheads are ~0.
Ethos of open-source

F/OSS is creative license to tinker, take apart and put things back. Evidently the best form of capitalism. We care deeply enough to contribute, evangelize and organize communities.
SWAT team is the default topology

Punch above the collective weight of headcount. The post AI age signals the rise of a new class of artisanal guilds, quite unlike system integrators or software factories.
For the love of real-world customer problems

We could all be doing almost anything else, but solving real-life business problems gives us a high.