Founded by engineers who were
tired of agencies.
TopDev exists because the founders kept inheriting codebases that agencies had abandoned — under-tested, under-documented, and built by whoever was available. We decided to be the opposite of that.
From rescue missions to first choices
We started in 2019 rescuing failed projects — rewriting fragile systems under pressure. Word spread. Today, 240+ products later, companies come to us first instead of after the fire.
Make great software the default
Every company deserves software that's secure, fast, and built to evolve — not a liability they're afraid to deploy on Fridays. We exist to make that the norm, not the exception.
The engineering partner of record
We want to be to software what a great law firm is to legal: the partner ambitious companies keep on speed dial for the decisions that can't go wrong.
The rules we don't break
Ship like owners
We treat your product like our equity depends on it — because our reputation does.
Senior by default
No bait-and-switch staffing. The engineers you meet are the engineers who build.
Measure everything
Performance budgets, eval harnesses, SLOs. If it matters, it has a number.
Security is table stakes
Threat modeling and least-privilege from the first commit, not the last sprint.
Radical transparency
You see our boards, our PRs, and our burn-down. No black boxes.
Built to hand over
Documentation and clean architecture so any team — including yours — can take the keys.
How we make launch day boring
A five-phase delivery system refined across 240+ products. Predictable on purpose.
Discover
Week 0–1
Domain workshops, success metrics, risk register. We learn your business before we touch the code.
Design
Week 1–3
System architecture, data models, and high-fidelity UI — reviewed together, signed off before build.
Build
Sprints of 2
Demo-able increments every two weeks. You see our boards, PRs, and burn-down in real time.
Harden
Pre-launch
Load testing, security review, observability wiring, and runbooks. Launch is boring by design.
Evolve
Ongoing
SLA-backed support, quarterly architecture reviews, and a roadmap that compounds.
The people who answer for the work
No account managers between you and the people building. These are the names on the door.
Marcus Adeyemi
CEO & Co-founder
Ex-Stripe payments infrastructure. Led teams scaling to 100M+ users.
Elena Kovacs
CTO & Co-founder
Distributed systems PhD. Previously principal engineer at a top-3 cloud provider.
James Whitfield
VP of Engineering
Shipped 40+ products across fintech and health tech. Reliability obsessive.
Priya Raman
Head of AI
Former ML research lead. Builds LLM systems that survive contact with users.
Tomás Ferreira
Head of Design
Award-winning product designer. Believes motion is a feature, not decoration.
Aisha Bello
Head of Delivery
Engagement lead for our largest enterprise programs. Zero missed launches.
Engr. Ogban Ogban
Software Engineer & Blockchain Developer
Full-stack engineer and Web3 specialist who designs, builds, and audits production-grade smart contracts and the dApps around them. Ships secure, observable systems end to end — from EVM bytecode to pixel-perfect frontends — with zero exploits across deployed protocols.
Mr. Temple Ben Ewa
Product Manager
Turns ambiguous business goals into shippable roadmaps. Runs discovery, prioritization, and delivery across cross-functional teams — keeping engineering pointed at outcomes, not output, and stakeholders aligned from kickoff to launch.