About
We build the software you cannot get wrong.
AYA is a software engineering company. We take on the systems a business cannot afford to get wrong and build them by method, not by deadline: precise, reviewed, and accountable from the first commit.
The essentials
- Founded
- 2025
- Based in
- Cluj-Napoca, Romania (EU)
- Disciplines
- Mobile, desktop, and web software
- Specialty
- Rust and systems engineering
Track record
Built for names you would recognise.
AYA and the engineers behind it have shipped production software for global companies across finance, consumer goods, education, and clean energy, from customer-facing platforms to distributed infrastructure, working through leading international agencies. Client names sit under NDA. The standard we held for them is the standard we hold now.
How an engagement runs
From idea to scale.
A clear, repeatable path that turns ambition into shipped, reliable software.
- 01
Discovery
We pressure-test the idea, map the problem, and define what success looks like, before a line of code.
- 02
Design
Product and interface design that turns scope into something tangible and testable before engineering begins.
- 03
Engineering
We build in focused iterations. Tested, reviewed, and shippable at every step.
- 04
Scale
Performance tuning, reliability work, and new capability, delivered alongside you as the product matures.
How we engineer
Standards, not slogans.
We would rather show you how the work gets built than tell you it's good. These practices run on every engagement, the same on the first commit and the thousandth.
- 01
Reviewed before it ships
Every change is read by a second engineer before it merges. Nothing reaches your users that only one person has seen.
- 02
Tested where it counts
We test the logic that would hurt most if it broke and keep the pipeline honest, so a green build actually means something.
- 03
Decisions on the record
Architecture decisions are written down with their trade-offs. A year on, anyone can see why the system works the way it does.
- 04
Dependencies on a short leash
We add third-party code deliberately and keep it current. Fewer moving parts means fewer surprises and a smaller attack surface.
- 05
Security as routine
Threat modelling and review belong in the cycle, not in a checklist at the end. Your data and your users are treated as the priority they are.
- 06
Yours on delivery
You own the code, the infrastructure, and the knowledge to run it. We document so your team is never locked in, to us or to anyone.
- 07
Rust where it earns its place
We reach for Rust when reliability and performance are not negotiable, and we say so plainly when a simpler tool is the better call.
Engineers, not a factory.
We take on a small number of engagements and give each our full attention. If you are building something that has to be right, we should talk.
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