The team that ran engineering at Lamudi.
Now building yours.
Senior engineers who design, build and run serious software for founders who have outgrown their MVP and established businesses with no tech team of their own. You talk to the people who build it.
30 minutes with Dan and the people who would do the work
- Former Lamudi CTO & B2B Lead
- Embedded Team of 7 (German Healthcare SaaS)
- Builders of LISTD & Ceremo
Work You Can Check
Named products and embedded client teams, built by the people you would work with.
Lamudi
Global property marketplace for emerging markets.
- Dan rose from Senior Software Developer in 2014 to CTO on the leadership team in 2017
- Dan's team built Lamudi's core platform, the products and systems Lamudi ran on
- Jarn was technical lead for PropertyPro and LamudiConnect, Lamudi's B2B products
- Roles
- CTO (Dan) & B2B Tech Lead (Jarn)
- Scope
- Core platform & B2B products
LISTD
A live Philippine property platform. Brainstorm IT built it and still works on it today.
- Draw-on-the-map search and AI property valuation
- PRC license verification for agents
- AI-written listing titles, descriptions and virtual staging
- Role
- End-to-end product & engineering
- Stack
- Next.js, TypeScript API, PostgreSQL, OpenAI
German Healthcare SaaS
An embedded engineering team of seven for a live German healthcare SaaS, since December 2024.
- Dedicated senior engineers, QA and product coordination working as one unit
- Embedded directly inside the client's workflow, tools and release cadence
- Led by Dan and Jarn on an ongoing monthly retainer
- Team Shape
- 7 embedded specialists
- Engagement
- Monthly retainer since Dec 2024
Ceremo
Our own product: digital wedding invitations and RSVP for couples in the Philippines.
- Live with paying couples across the Philippines
- Invitations, guest lists and RSVP tracking in one place
- We run all of it end to end: product, payments, hosting on AWS and support
- Ownership
- Built & operated by Brainstorm IT
- Infrastructure
- Payments, support & AWS hosting
The People You Talk To Are The People Who Build
Dan and Jarn worked together at Lamudi, and they lead every Brainstorm IT engagement themselves. No sales layer, no handoff to a junior bench. The senior people in the first call are the people who write your code.
What You Get With a Senior-Led Team
Three things that stay constant:
Senior-Led, Always
A senior engineer leads every project, owning architecture, code review, and client communication. You'll never be handed off to someone learning on the job.
Architecture That Scales
The architecture discipline behind our work at Lamudi and LISTD, applied to your product.
You Stay in Control
Weekly syncs with the senior people doing the work, a clear roadmap, and engineers working inside your own tools. You keep full ownership of the code.
How an Engagement Works
Every engagement starts with a 30-minute fit check and a fixed-price Deep Dive before any monthly retainer begins.
Intro Call with Dan
A conversation to understand your situation and see if we're a fit.
You get: Honest fit assessment · Clear next steps
Paid Deep Dive
A paid engagement that scopes the work before any retainer starts.
You get: Technical spec · Architecture · Roadmap · Team shape
Dedicated Team
A senior team embedded with yours, running day to day.
You get: Working software, shipped continuously · Documentation · Knowledge transfer
What We Build
Digital Products
- Marketplace platforms
- SaaS applications
- Mobile apps
- Customer platforms
Business Solutions
- Process automation systems
- Internal tools
- Data management platforms
- Integration solutions
- Legacy system modernization
Field Notes for Serious Operators
Hard-won thinking on marketplace architecture, legacy modernization and buying a senior engineering team, from our work at Lamudi and LISTD.
What a Senior Engineering Team Costs vs Hiring In-House in Manila
A 2026 cost and risk breakdown for Philippine and regional operators: what hiring an in-house engineering team in Manila actually costs versus retaining a dedicated senior team.
Read articleThe Equity-for-Services Playbook: Trading Equity for a Senior Build Partner
A practical framework for operators deciding whether to trade equity for a senior engineering team. Cash retainer vs fractional CTO vs equity build partner, how to structure a fair deal, and when the model does not make sense.
Read articleBuilding a Two-Sided Property Marketplace: The Architecture Decisions That Matter
A senior team's guide to two-sided property marketplace architecture: the data model, search, supply-side tooling, and monolith decisions that matter.
Read articleCash Retainer, Equity by Exception
Engagements run as a monthly cash retainer with a dedicated senior team. In unique situations we will consider taking part of our fee in equity instead. It is an exception, not the model, and we decide it case by case.
Let's See If We're a Fit
We're selective about the engagements we take on. A 30-minute call with Dan and the people who would do the work tells us both whether there's a match.
- Meet the senior people who would run your engineering
- Get honest feedback on your technical approach
- Walk away with clarity, even if we're not a fit
30 minutes with Dan and the people who would do the work
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