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about us

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.

Our story

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.

Mission

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.

Vision

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.

core values

The rules we don't break

01

Ship like owners

We treat your product like our equity depends on it — because our reputation does.

02

Senior by default

No bait-and-switch staffing. The engineers you meet are the engineers who build.

03

Measure everything

Performance budgets, eval harnesses, SLOs. If it matters, it has a number.

04

Security is table stakes

Threat modeling and least-privilege from the first commit, not the last sprint.

05

Radical transparency

You see our boards, our PRs, and our burn-down. No black boxes.

06

Built to hand over

Documentation and clean architecture so any team — including yours — can take the keys.

methodology

How we make launch day boring

A five-phase delivery system refined across 240+ products. Predictable on purpose.

01

Discover

Week 0–1

Domain workshops, success metrics, risk register. We learn your business before we touch the code.

02

Design

Week 1–3

System architecture, data models, and high-fidelity UI — reviewed together, signed off before build.

03

Build

Sprints of 2

Demo-able increments every two weeks. You see our boards, PRs, and burn-down in real time.

04

Harden

Pre-launch

Load testing, security review, observability wiring, and runbooks. Launch is boring by design.

05

Evolve

Ongoing

SLA-backed support, quarterly architecture reviews, and a roadmap that compounds.

leadership

The people who answer for the work

No account managers between you and the people building. These are the names on the door.

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Marcus Adeyemi

CEO & Co-founder

Ex-Stripe payments infrastructure. Led teams scaling to 100M+ users.

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Elena Kovacs

CTO & Co-founder

Distributed systems PhD. Previously principal engineer at a top-3 cloud provider.

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James Whitfield

VP of Engineering

Shipped 40+ products across fintech and health tech. Reliability obsessive.

PR

Priya Raman

Head of AI

Former ML research lead. Builds LLM systems that survive contact with users.

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Tomás Ferreira

Head of Design

Award-winning product designer. Believes motion is a feature, not decoration.

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Aisha Bello

Head of Delivery

Engagement lead for our largest enterprise programs. Zero missed launches.

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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.

SoliditySmart Contract AuditingEVM / FoundryHardhatDeFi ProtocolsTokenizationZero-Knowledge ProofsRustTypeScriptReact / Next.jsNode.jsGoPostgreSQLDistributed SystemsCloud (AWS / GCP)
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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.

Product StrategyRoadmappingAgile / ScrumDiscovery & ResearchStakeholder ManagementAnalytics & KPIsGo-to-MarketBacklog Prioritization

Work with a team that signs its name to the result.

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