HIRE DEVELOPERS / OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPERS
Understanding a codebase well enough to fork it, extend it, fix it, and keep it maintained when the community moves on is what open source development actually means — not just using free software. Our open source developers work inside projects like Chromium, Linux, PostgreSQL, and dozens of frameworks, customising, contributing, and self-hosting for businesses that need more than the default.
Reading source code, patching bugs upstream, forking projects when customisation is needed, and maintaining those forks through version upgrades — that's the open source development our developers actually do, not just installing packages. Open source licensing (MIT, Apache, GPL, AGPL), community contribution workflows, and the operational reality of self-hosting software your business depends on.
Source-level debugging, patch management, upstream contribution workflows, fork maintenance strategy, and real experience running self-hosted open source infrastructure in production — vetted for real open source work.
Developers who use open source tools are everyone. Developers who can read a 500K-line codebase, write a clean patch, rebase it across upstream releases, and self-host the result with monitoring are a rare combination. We keep them ready.
A dedicated developer for long-term fork maintenance or a self-hosted platform. A part-time specialist for upstream rebasing and security patching. An hourly consultant for a licensing audit or a fork feasibility assessment. Sized to fit.
Someone to fork and maintain a project, self-host an open source platform, or contribute patches upstream — get on a discovery call and we'll match the right engineer to your open source development needs.
One open source developer, embedded full-time, maintaining forks, managing upstream rebases, self-hosting infrastructure, and contributing patches. Right for organisations that depend on customised open source software.
Twenty hours a week of focused open source work — enough for regular upstream rebasing, security patch application, version upgrade testing, or self-hosted platform maintenance.
A fork feasibility assessment, a licensing compliance audit (GPL, AGPL, Apache), an upstream contribution review, or a self-hosting architecture evaluation — targeted open source consulting, scoped and delivered.
Match this to how your team already runs open source work, or tell us and we'll suggest one.
Fork management, patch maintenance, upstream tracking, and self-hosted deployment — all ours end to end. You review weekly and direct what gets customised.
Your engineering lead sets priorities. Our open source developer joins your Slack, your GitHub, your standups. They maintain the fork, apply patches — you direct the roadmap.
Product features and business logic stay with your team. The upstream relationship — rebasing, patching, security updates, and build system maintenance — becomes ours.
Deep open source ecosystem expertise across languages and platforms — what our engineers actually work with, daily.
Libraries, tooling, and automation around OSS stacks.
Node ecosystems and frontend frameworks.
Forked UIs and upstream component patches.
Self-hosted services and npm dependency audits.
Chromium-scale codebases and native tooling.
Performance-critical OSS and CLI tools.
Cloud-native OSS and operator-style services.
Typed patches across large monorepos.
Adjacent services we often ship alongside open source work — same bench, same standard.
Seven questions we get on every first call about hiring open source developers. If yours isn't here, we'll cover it first.
Tell us what open source project you're working with, and we'll walk you through what maintaining it properly — forked, patched, self-hosted — actually takes.
