SF ★ NYC ★ Berlin — engineering studio

We do the
hard parts.

Backend systems. Algorithms. Low-level code. Mobile apps. AI. The work that has to be correct and fast — no excuses, no handoffs.

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01

AI & LLM systems

Agent loops, RAG, prompt pipelines, evals — AI workflows that replace real manual work, measured before they ship.

DSPy · agents · RAG · evals

02

Mobile apps

Native iOS & macOS in Swift/SwiftUI — or React Native when it fits. Shipped to the store.

Swift · SwiftUI · React Native

03

Backend & distributed systems

APIs, data pipelines, event systems, storage — designed for load and failure, owned from schema to deploy.

Python · FastAPI · Postgres · AWS

04

Algorithms & performance

Profiling, latency budgets, algorithmic design. We took a distributed trading system to #1 globally on speed.

C++ · Rust · low-latency

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Low-level & systems

Win32/WinAPI internals, embedded down to 4 KB of RAM, real-time RF, hardware wallets.

C · C++ · Rust · WinAPI

Numbers

20+YEARS OF C/C++ IN PRODUCTION

#1GLOBAL EXECUTION SPEED FOR ITS STRATEGY

½THE WORLD'S BUSES TRACKED BY OUR ALGORITHMS

4KBSMALLEST PRODUCTION RAM TARGET

Selected work

chat4000.comNative iOS/macOS/CLI messaging client for self-hosted AI agents — our own product.Product

monday.comBackend engineering for monday.com's platform.Backend

Magic.devLarge-scale GitHub crawler for a frontier AI code-gen lab.Data

Nustom · YCDSPy few-shot optimization pipeline for code-gen performance.LLM

MoovitReal-time algorithms tracking half the world's buses, every minute.Algorithms

Elbit SystemsReal-time RF receiver controllers in C++ for military-grade comms.Embedded

dWalletZero-knowledge-proof research for WebAssembly in the wallet stack.Crypto

VisionMapAirborne imaging systems in C++ across a multi-million-line codebase.C++

In-houseDistributed crypto trading system, #1 globally on execution speed.Low-latency

Studio

p99.studio is a senior engineering studio out of San Francisco, New York & Berlin, founded by an ex-Unit 8200 engineer. No account managers, no juniors, no handoffs — the people you talk to write the code.

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