About

Built by engineers, for engineers.

We started XcodeFactory because we were tired of software that almost worked. A decade later, we're still fixing that.

Our Story

A decade of shipping hard things.

XcodeFactory was founded by a small team of engineers who had spent years watching good ideas fail because of bad software. Not bad ideas — bad execution. Templates that didn't fit. Agencies that overpromised. Developers who disappeared after launch.

We built XcodeFactory to be the team we always wanted to hire. One that asks hard questions before writing a line of code. One that treats your problem like their own. One that ships — and stays accountable after.

Today we work with startups, scale-ups, and enterprise teams across three continents. The problems change. The standard doesn't.

What We Stand For

How we operate.

First principles, always

We don't reach for the nearest framework. We understand the problem, then choose the right tool.

Transparency over comfort

We tell you what we think, not what you want to hear. That's how trust gets built.

Ownership, not excuses

When something breaks, we fix it. No finger-pointing, no scope debates — we own the outcome.

Ship, then improve

Perfect is the enemy of shipped. We deliver working software, then iterate with real feedback.

The Team

Small team. High standards.

We stay deliberately small so every client gets senior attention — not a junior assigned after the pitch.

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Alex Mercer

Founder & Lead Engineer

15 years building production systems. Previously led engineering at two YC-backed startups. Obsessed with distributed systems and AI architecture.

AI/MLSystems DesignPythonGo
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Sara Okonkwo

Head of Product Engineering

Full-stack engineer with a product mindset. Spent 8 years shipping consumer and B2B products before joining XcodeFactory.

ReactTypeScriptNode.jsUX
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Dmitri Volkov

Infrastructure & DevOps Lead

Former SRE at a Fortune 500. Keeps everything running at scale — Kubernetes, CI/CD, cloud architecture.

AWSKubernetesTerraformDocker
Our Stack

Tools we trust.

We pick the right tool for the job — not the trendiest one. These are the technologies we've shipped to production, repeatedly.

Frontend

ReactTypeScriptNext.jsTailwind CSSVite

Backend

Node.jsPythonGoFastAPIExpress

AI / ML

OpenAIAnthropicLangChainPyTorchTensorFlowPinecone

Infrastructure

AWSDockerKubernetesTerraformGitHub Actions

Data

PostgreSQLRedisMongoDBKafkaAirflow
Work with us

Want to work with us?

We take on a limited number of projects at a time. If you have something worth building, let's talk.

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