firendev/
est. 2020 · patagonia · deep in the woods

software/ design/ strategy

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to orbit
[02]/systems

many rooms,
one discipline.

system01

trading systems

low-latency execution, market data pipelines, and the unsexy plumbing that makes a strategy survive contact with production.

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system02

ai tooling

internal evals, tracing, and the interfaces engineers actually want — not the demo. we build for the people debugging at 3am, not the ones giving the keynote.

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system03

creative engineering

prototypes, design tools, and small interfaces that have personality without being precious. one-off software for problems that don't have a category yet.

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system04

incoming

a fourth room is being built. shape unclear, rules being written. the brief that arrives next chooses what it becomes.

// q4 · 2026// open
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[03]/approach

a forest. a brief.
one standard.

a multidisciplinary crew working from a patagonian forest, under whichever tree gets the best light that morning. the trades travel. the workplace moves. the standard does not.

  1. 01

    // the forest is the office

    open-plan offices were a mistake. open canopy is not. our ceiling is whatever the trees give us, and so far it has not missed a deadline.

  2. 02

    // discipline, not routine

    fixed hours are a love letter to people who don't trust themselves. we trust the work to tell us when it's done. when it doesn't, we walk until it does.

  3. 03

    // mission-shaped

    we form around the problem, not the org chart. the right people meet the work, ship it, then disband. nothing permanent except the standard.

  4. 04

    // bring us the strange one

    the brief that scared the room. the broken category. the project nobody answered the email on. that one. that's the one we want.

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[04]/contact

have a hard
problem?

$ echo "let's talk"

drop files or briefs, refs, screenshots — anything that helps

    opens your mail client with the brief pre-filled. attach files there if mailto skipped them.

    // availability
    q3 2026 — taking 1 project
    // based
    deep in the woods, patagonia
    // timezone
    cet · fully remote
    // elsewhere
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