Calgary, Alberta · Software engineering consultancy
ByteHound designs, builds, and maintains custom software for teams that cannot afford it to break. Fourteen years of engineering across startups and Fortune 500 operations — delivered with thorough testing, real documentation, and automation that keeps working long after we hand it over.
$ ship --tested --documented
✓ system ready for handover
14+
years engineering
95%
coverage delivered
2
open-source tools
Our engineers bring experience from
What we do
Most engagements start with one of these and grow into the others. We're comfortable owning a project end to end, or dropping into an existing codebase and making it better.
We map the problem, weigh the trade-offs, and produce a plan you can actually budget and staff.
Good fit if: You have a decision to make and want an outside engineer's read before committing budget to it.
We build production software and hand it over in a state you would be comfortable inheriting.
Good fit if: You need something built, and you would like it to still be maintainable in three years.
We set up the automation that keeps a system healthy and stay available when it needs a human.
Good fit if: Your team spends more time on releases and firefighting than on building.
Why ByteHound
Plenty of shops can get something working. The difference shows up eighteen months later, when somebody new has to change it.
95%
test coverage
Automated test coverage is part of the deliverable, not a phase that gets cut when the schedule tightens. On a recent engagement we brought a C# .NET automation library to 95% coverage and cut reported defects by roughly a third.
1 source
of truth
Every project leaves behind readable documentation — architecture notes, setup instructions, and command references generated directly from the code so they cannot drift out of date.
50%
faster deploys
Builds, tests, and deployments run without anyone remembering to trigger them. We have halved deployment times by replacing manual release steps with proper pipelines.
2
open-source projects
Two of our engineering projects are open source under AGPL and MIT licences. You can read the code, the tests, and the commit history before you hire us.
Open source
We release tools we'd want to use ourselves. Both projects below are developed in the open — real code, real CI, real test coverage.
Industrial automation
An open-source, cross-platform PID loop auto-tuner for industrial control systems.
Industrial automation
A Rust gateway that makes legacy OPC DA servers reachable from any operating system.
Next step
Tell us what you're working on and what's in the way. If we're a good fit we'll say so — and if we're not, we'll usually know someone who is.
