About XDevLabs
Independent thinking. Direct engineering responsibility.
XDevLabs is an independent software engineering business founded and led by Alex Hovy. The work starts with understanding the business, then choosing the right technical approach.
Alex Hovy
Founder & software engineer
Close to the problem.
Close to the work.
Founder-led means direct involvement in discovery, architecture and engineering decisions. It helps keep the business context connected to what is actually being designed and built.
Engagements can range from a focused review or professional website to a custom application, integration or longer-term product collaboration. The scope and available capacity are agreed around the requirement.
Additional engineering, UX, design and other specialist involvement can be arranged where appropriate. Those roles and responsibilities are established per engagement.
Engineering principles
Practical decisions.
Software you can work with.
Understand the business
Start with the people, processes and outcomes that make the work worthwhile.
Choose technology deliberately
Use an approach that fits the requirements, constraints and people who will maintain it.
Reuse with judgement
Use shared groundwork where it helps. Build bespoke capabilities where the business needs them.
Make responsibilities explicit
Clarify deliverables, source and licence rights, operations, support and handover before they become assumptions.
Let’s talk about it
What would you like to build or improve?
Tell us about the problem, the idea or the system you have today. We’ll work out a useful next step together.