About.
We're not an agency. We're not consultants. We're programmers who build things for money. That's it.
The Philosophy
Mercenary Programmers exists because the software industry has a problem: too much talking, not enough building.
Agencies want to "partner" with you. Consultants want to advise you. Vendors want to lock you in. Everyone wants a relationship.
We want a transaction. You have a problem. We solve it. You pay us. Done. No quarterly business reviews. No account managers. No upsells.
This isn't about being cold—it's about being honest. You're not hiring us for our company culture or our values deck. You're hiring us because you need something built and you need it to work.
Operating Principles
Results Over Process
We don't bill by the hour. We don't schedule meetings to discuss meetings. We quote a price, set a deadline, and deliver. The process is our problem, not yours.
No Technology Religion
We don't care if it's React or Vue, AWS or GCP, MongoDB or PostgreSQL. We care about what solves your problem. Dogma is for people with something to sell.
Brutal Honesty
If your idea won't work, we'll tell you. If your timeline is unrealistic, we'll tell you. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you. We'd rather lose a deal than set you up to fail.
Clean Handoffs
When we're done, you own everything. No vendor lock-in, no proprietary dependencies, no hostage situations. Our code is documented and transferable.
Scope Is Sacred
We build what we agreed to build. No 'while we're in there' extras that balloon your budget. Want more? That's a new scope, a new quote, a new agreement.
Privacy by Default
We don't name-drop clients. We don't post about your project on LinkedIn. Your business is your business. Discretion isn't an add-on, it's standard.
The Background
We've shipped code for startups, enterprises, and everything in between. Financial services, healthcare, e-commerce, logistics, media—the industry matters less than the problem.
Before this, we were engineers at companies you've heard of. We've built systems that handle millions of transactions. We've rescued projects that were declared dead. We've worked under every methodology imaginable and learned which parts actually matter.
Now we do this on our terms: clear scope, clear price, clear outcome. No overhead. No politics. Just code.