Developer Box

[ North Vancouver, BC ] · Architecture · DevOps · Security readiness

Engineeringfor businesses that don'thave an engineering team.

Developer Box designs, ships and secures software for small and mid-sized businesses — fixed-fee scopes, documented decisions, and infrastructure you'll still understand after the engagement ends.

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Sound familiar?

Deploys are manual, and nobody wants to be the one who touches production.

A customer sent a security questionnaire and half the answers are "we think so."

The person who built your app is gone, and so is the documentation.

Three ways in. One standard of work.

Every engagement is scoped against one outcome you can measure — and ends with documentation your next hire can pick up.

01Start here

Security & compliance readiness

For teams fielding security questionnaires or heading toward an audit. A gap assessment of what you have, a prioritized remediation plan, and controls you can actually operate.

  • — Access control, backups & logging review
  • — Questionnaire answers you can stand behind
  • — Written policies sized to your team
02

Architecture & DevOps

For products that work but are hard to change. Automated deploys, separate dev and prod environments, monitoring that tells you before customers do, and a cloud bill you understand.

  • — CI/CD and environment setup
  • — Error tracking, logging & alerting
  • — Architecture review & roadmap
03

Product builds

For founders who need a working first version, not a prototype to throw away. Fixed-scope MVPs on a proven, documented stack — production-ready from the first deploy.

  • — Web apps & customer portals
  • — Auth, payments & integrations
  • — Hand-off with runbooks & training

Ongoing support and team training are available for anything delivered.

How an engagement runs

Requirements first. Code second. No surprises on the invoice.

Tell us the bottleneck

A short form covering your stack, the one problem slowing you down, and what it costs you if it is not fixed in the next 90 days.

→About 5 minutes

Standards

Boring, proven, written down.

New builds start on a standard stack so you aren't paying for experiments. Already have a stack? We work in yours.

01

Separate development and production

Every project gets its own environments, so testing never touches real customers.

02

Every change is traceable

Issue → branch → pull request → deploy. You can always answer "what changed, and why?"

03

Secrets never live in the repo

Credentials sit in a managed secret store, not in code or a shared doc.

04

You own everything

Code, cloud accounts and documentation are yours from day one — no lock-in.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Firebase
  • Cloud Functions
  • Firestore
  • Sentry
  • Playwright
  • GitHub
  • Cloudflare
  • AWS

Built and run in-house

Our own products run on the same stack and standards we deliver to clients. Hover to scroll through.

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About

You work directly with the engineers who build it.

Developer Box Inc. is a North Vancouver team of engineers with backgrounds in compliance software, cloud infrastructure and full-stack product work. We partner with businesses that need experienced engineering judgement without building an engineering department of their own.

Our approach is simple: understand the real problem before writing code, write down every decision, and leave systems in better shape than they were found.

What's the one thing slowing you down?

Tell us in a few minutes. You'll hear back within 48 hours — with a clear next step or an honest "we're not the right fit."