two builders,
one studio

We're a two-person shop in Toronto. Both of us write code, both of us care about how it looks. Shahbaz leans systems, Donia leans product. No third hire planned.

Shahbaz Siddiqui

senior full-stack engineer, react, go, typescript, node

Senior full-stack engineer who builds his own tools. Custom split keyboards, a home server stack, niche little apps that solve his own problems. Open source champion. Blacksmiths on weekends, because some things should still be made with your hands.

Donia Amer

senior software engineer, builds & designs for web

Senior software engineer who builds and designs for the web. The design lives in Figma. The code lives in the repo. She lives in both, which is why nothing gets lost between them. Occasionally moonlights at events and on film sets, which turns out to be useful training for shipping things on a deadline.

a short, honest process

Four weeks is the modal engagement, long enough to ship, short enough to be honest about it.

01, day 1–2

scoping call

60 min, free

We read whatever you send us before the call. We leave with a one-page brief or politely decline.

02, week 1

research & sketch

5 days

We look at your data, your stack, and your nearest competitors. Sketch until something clicks.

03, week 2+

build in the open

depends on your build

Daily commits, weekly demos. You have access to the repo and Figma from day one. Nothing's a surprise.

04, week 4+

handoff & tail

5 days + 14d tail

Ship, document, then two weeks of bug-fix support. After that we're an email away!

/now, updated may 2026

what we're actually doing right now

shahbaz
Building out the design system for a startup, and adding a new service to the home server. The kind that quietly becomes essential.
donia
Designing the brand for an under-wraps startup, and reading another dystopian novel.
us
A few pair sessions a month and one long build with an AI SEO client. Booking new work for June & onward.