About Us — Bangladesh-built. Globally trusted.

Origin → Today

How a side project
became a studio.

We're not the agency that pivoted to AI last quarter. We're the engineers who've been quietly shipping production software since 2023 — one milestone, one client, one good night's sleep at a time.

FOUNDER NOTE

“Most dev shops sell hours. We sell shipped products. That single switch — from billing time to billing outcomes — is what makes Octidev feel different.”

— Shahamar · CO-FOUNDER

2023 · Q1

Two engineers, one rented desk.

Octidev started as a side gig between two senior engineers tired of watching offshore agencies ship Wordpress duct-tape to YC founders. First client signed in week three, paid in week four, still shipping with us.

01

2023 · Q3

First Shopify app on the App Store.

A subscription engine for a DTC coffee brand. Five-week build. Approved on the first review pass — apparently rare. We made a list of the gotchas. That list is now our App Store playbook.

02

2024 · Q2

First dedicated pod for a US SaaS.

A four-engineer pod embedded with a Series-A team in Austin. Same Slack, same Linear, same standups. They renewed at month six. They're still with us.

03

2024 · Q4

AI practice spun up.

Built our first production RAG system before everyone's LinkedIn went AI-native. Wrote our internal evals harness. Three AI features now run through it before any client deploy.

04

2025 · Q3

Team of 18. Still no sales people.

Every engineer here interviews every new engineer. Every PR gets reviewed by a tech lead. Every Friday we ship a working build to every client. The boring rules — kept religiously.

05

2026 · Today

120+ products shipped. 94% retention.

Founders keep us on speed-dial because we don't treat the post-launch as someone else's problem. Most clients are still on month 18+ retainers. The same engineers, the same Slack channels.

06

★ STILL SHIPPING ★

The honest version

Why we don't feel
like an agency.

We've worked with founders who came to us after firing two, three, sometimes five other shops. Here's the pattern they keep describing — and how Octidev runs the other way.

MOST AGENCIES

OCTIDEV

Who codes

Senior on the call · juniors on the keyboard

The engineer on the call writes the code

How we plan

8-week discovery doc · zero shipped

Sprint zero ships infra in week one

Comms cadence

Monthly status report PDF

Daily Slack · Friday Loom · weekly demo

When you push back

“Out of scope” change order

We push back on you, too — that's the job

Code quality

Whatever ships before invoice

Tests, types, CI, code review — non-negotiable

After launch

“That's a separate engagement.”

60-day SLA included · most stay 18+ months

Pricing

T&M · meter spinning

Fixed scope · weekly retainer · or pod

IP & code ownership

Yours at the end · maybe

Yours from day one. Repo, infra, deploys.

Built local · shipped global

Bangladesh in the source.
The world in the changelog.

We're a Dhaka studio that ships into US, EU, MENA, and APAC production. Same Slack you use. Same Linear board. Same code review standards. Different timezone, no different expectations.

OCTIDEV.NET / LIVE-DEPLOYS● 7 REGIONS · LIVE

SAN FRANCISCO · 13h 45mNEW YORK · 10h 02mLONDON · 5h 18mBERLIN · 4h 12m

ENGINEERING DEPTH

Senior talent — at scale.

Bangladesh has 1.6M software engineers, 200+ CS programs, and a daily English-speaking devops culture. We hire from the top 4%.

COMMUNICATION

USA-friendly defaults.

Slack-first. Linear-native. Loom over long meetings. Async-by-default with a guaranteed live overlap window every working day.

ECONOMICS

Cost without the “cheap”.

Senior US engineering rates flatten margins for early-stage founders. We match the quality, not the price tag — and cap pod budgets monthly.

Engineering Culture

We're not consultants.
We're engineers.

Real engineering: tests, types, CI, code review, observability. Boring rules followed religiously, so the surprises stay in your product roadmap and not in your incident channel.

git log · main● synced

SRab12c4ffeat: stripe webhook handlerHEAD

SHd9e3f1afix: race in subscription renewal

NK7c81b2eperf: index orders by tenant_id

SR30f4a99refactor: extract billing service

SHb6d22c1chore: bump next to 16.2.5

FAe0a78f3test: cover dunning edge cases

DAILY SHIP LOOPruns every weekday · 09:30 — 18:00 BDT

plan

build

review

ship

120+deploys / month

98.4%PR pass rate

<9mCI runtime

Principles we don't skip.

01

Tests, types & CI from day one

No PR merges without a green pipeline. The next dev who reads the repo doesn't inherit a graveyard.

02

Code review by a tech lead, always

Every PR. Every time. Even the one-line fix. Especially the one-line fix.

03

Observability is not optional

Sentry, structured logs, dashboards. We'd rather find the bug than read about it on Twitter.

04

Boring tech for the boring parts

Postgres before NoSQL. Server-rendered before SPA. We pick the framework that ships, not the one that's hot.

The stack we ship.

FRONTEND

Next.js 15+

FRONTEND

React · TS

BACKEND

Node · Bun

DATA

Postgres

ECOMMERCE

Shopify

AI

Anthropic

AI

OpenAI

PAYMENTS

Stripe

DEPLOY

Vercel · Fly

OBSERVABILITY

Sentry

WORKFLOW

Linear

TESTING

Playwright

The humans

The engineers
actually shipping.

No stock headshots. No “account managers”. The names below are the names that show up in your repo's git log.

SR

Shahamar

Co-founder / Tech Lead

CURRENTLY BUILDING

Multi-tenant billing for a SaaS in NYC

FAVORITE TOOLS

Next.jsPostgresStripe

★ Reads system-design papers in cabs

KM

Kabir

Senior Frontend

CURRENTLY BUILDING

Dashboard for a Series-A dev tool

FAVORITE TOOLS

ReactTSTailwind

★ Has opinions about button border-radius

NK

Nazmul

Senior Backend

CURRENTLY BUILDING

Webhook processor at 12k req/sec

FAVORITE TOOLS

BunPostgresRedis

★ Wrote the company's SQL style guide

MZ

Mehzab

Product Designer

CURRENTLY BUILDING

Onboarding flow that converts

FAVORITE TOOLS

FigmaFramerRive

★ Once shipped a Figma plugin in 36hrs

TI

Tanvir

Project Lead

CURRENTLY BUILDING

Three pods, weekly demos, zero drift

FAVORITE TOOLS

LinearNotionLoom

★ Ends every standup in under 9 minutes

FA

Faria

QA Lead

CURRENTLY BUILDING

Playwright suite for a Shopify app

FAVORITE TOOLS

PlaywrightVitestCypress

★ Caught a $40k bug a week before launch

RS

Rakib

DevOps

CURRENTLY BUILDING

Multi-region failover playbook

FAVORITE TOOLS

Fly.ioTerraformGrafana

★ Treats yaml the way poets treat haiku

JM

Junaid

AI Engineer

CURRENTLY BUILDING

RAG agent with prompt-eval gates

FAVORITE TOOLS

AnthropicVector DBLangChain

★ Owns the internal evals harness

And 10 more engineers, designers, and PMs you'll meet in your kickoff Slack.

Three years in numbers

Receipts,
not promises.

Every number below is a real engagement, a real deploy, a real dollar saved. Audited by the only people who matter — the founders still on retainer.

0+

Products shipped

Apps · SaaS · AI features

0+

Active clients

USA · EU · MENA · APAC

0

Engineers in-house

Hired top 4% of applicants

0%

Client retention

Most stay 18+ months

0

Countries deployed in

From SF to Singapore

0+

Hours saved

By automations we shipped

★ HIRING Q3 — Q4 2026

Want to build
cool stuff?

We hire engineers who'd be running their own startup if they weren't doing this. Senior-only. No bootcamp pipeline, no staffing agency middlemen. You'll ship to production in week one.

OPEN ROLES · 4● HIRING

Built bybuilders.Not a sales team.

How a side project
became a studio.

Two engineers, one rented desk.

First Shopify app on the App Store.

First dedicated pod for a US SaaS.

AI practice spun up.

Team of 18. Still no sales people.

120+ products shipped. 94% retention.

Why we don't feel
like an agency.

Bangladesh in the source.
The world in the changelog.

Senior talent — at scale.

USA-friendly defaults.

Cost without the “cheap”.

We're not consultants.
We're engineers.

Principles we don't skip.

The stack we ship.

The engineers
actually shipping.

Six rules.
Every project.

Receipts,
not promises.

Want to build
cool stuff?

Need a team that
actually ships?

Built bybuilders.Not a sales team.

How a side projectbecame a studio.

Two engineers, one rented desk.

First Shopify app on the App Store.

First dedicated pod for a US SaaS.

AI practice spun up.

Team of 18. Still no sales people.

120+ products shipped. 94% retention.

Why we don't feellike an agency.

Bangladesh in the source.The world in the changelog.

Senior talent — at scale.

USA-friendly defaults.

Cost without the “cheap”.

We're not consultants.We're engineers.

Principles we don't skip.

The stack we ship.

The engineersactually shipping.

Six rules.Every project.

Receipts,not promises.

Want to buildcool stuff?

Need a team thatactually ships?

How a side project
became a studio.

Why we don't feel
like an agency.

Bangladesh in the source.
The world in the changelog.

We're not consultants.
We're engineers.

The engineers
actually shipping.

Six rules.
Every project.

Receipts,
not promises.

Want to build
cool stuff?

Need a team that
actually ships?