We're three people in Berlin who like quiet software.
Nightfox Lab is the trading name of Nightfox Lab UG (haftungsbeschränkt), a small engineering studio registered in Berlin in 2022. We take a few engagements a year — usually around networking, backend systems, or developer experience — and try to leave each codebase smaller and calmer than we found it.
How we work
- Fixed-scope projects, typically four to twelve weeks. No retainers.
- Two of us on any given engagement; the third is reading, breaking things, or on a train.
- We don't sign NDAs that prevent us from referencing a problem class (we'll always anonymise specifics).
- If something we ship turns out to be wrong, we come back and fix it. We've been doing this long enough that it does happen.
Who we are
Henrike S. — networking and systems. Previously at a CDN, then an ISP-side observability tooling team. Likes Wireshark and slow trains.
Jonas R. — backend and data. Came out of a quant team. Believes most of distributed systems is just one box that's been split badly.
Mira L. — developer experience and frontend. Worked at an editor company that you've probably used. Two cats.
Where we are
Helmholtzstraße 2-9, 10587 Berlin. A small studio above a print shop. We don't take walk-ins — please write first.