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// 03 · how we work

Small on purpose. It's the whole advantage.

OPERACK is a tight studio of senior engineers who do DevOps, cloud infrastructure and custom software — and run our own SaaS on the side. No sales layer, no offshore hand-off, no junior learning on your budget. You talk to the person doing the work.

~/operack — whoami
$ whoami
OPERACK — a senior-only engineering studio
based ....... Brașov, Romania · working remote-first
since ....... shipping infra since long before it was a job title
runs ........ dkim.pro · req.is · rediray · boabe
$ we build what we can operate — nothing we can't
the pitch

The senior-only bet

One fewer layer than you're used to.

You talk to the engineer doing the work — not an account manager. No layers, no hand-offs, no junior surprises. Senior people, end to end, who care whether it still works at 3am. We'd rather turn down work than staff it with someone who's learning on your dime.

01
Senior-only
The person scoping it is the person building it.
02
Operable by design
Monitoring, runbooks and ownership from day one.
03
No buzzword bloat
We pick the boring tool that fits the workload.
04
We eat our own cooking
We run real products on the same practices.
05
Honest scoping
If we're not the right team, we'll tell you — free.
06
No lock-in
Clean handover whenever you want it. Stay because it works.
domains

Where we go deep

Generalist engineers, with a few places we know cold.

// agriculture

Agriculture

Digital twins, sensor data and farm operations — see BOABE.

// earth-obs

Earth Observation

Satellite & sensor data — Sentinel, Copernicus — turned into pipelines and products.

// startups

Tech Startups

Zero to production for teams who need to move fast without cutting the corners that page you later.

// hq · brașov, romania

Built in Transylvania.

Our HQ sits in Brașov, tucked under the Carpathians in the heart of Transylvania — misty peaks, medieval streets, and a certain famous count a short drive up the hill. We work remote-first with clients anywhere; the on-call rotation just happens to run on mountain air and good coffee.

45.5690° N
25.5677° E
the loop

Consulting ↔ products

Each side keeps the other honest.

// in

Client work sharpens products

Real systems at real scale surface the patterns and failure modes we then bake into our own SaaS.

// out

Products prove the advice

Running live services means every practice we recommend has survived our own on-call, not just a slide.

// both

We pay our own bills

Cost and reliability aren't abstractions — they're this month's invoice, felt by the same people advising you.

research

Research & EU consortia

We also partner on bigger, funded R&I work.

Beyond direct engagements, OPERACK takes part in larger collaborative projects as a consortium partner across the IT stack — the funded research-and-innovation work where several organisations build something none of them could alone.

// r&i

EU-funded R&I

Experience contributing as a partner within European research & innovation frameworks.

// agri

Agri-innovation

Cooperation and innovation programmes in agriculture — a natural fit with our earth-observation work.

// partner

Open to consortia

Available as a technical partner for publicly-funded research programmes, at both European and national level.

the fit

Are we a fit?

Honest about who we're for — and who we're not.

good-fit.txt
✓ teams who need infra that just works
✓ founders shipping a product to production
✓ orgs with a cloud bill nobody can explain
✓ anyone drowning in webhooks, redirects or DMARC
✓ mission-driven non-profits (pro bono)
not-us.txt
✗ staff-augmentation by the seat
✗ "resend the RFP to 40 vendors"
✗ chasing the newest framework for its own sake
✗ work we couldn't operate ourselves
— we'll happily refer you elsewhere

Talk to the engineer, not the funnel.

Tell us what you're working on. First reply comes from someone who could actually build it.