We embed senior engineers who rebuild legacy architecture and data infrastructure from the inside out — so your organization can scale, adopt AI, and ship without fighting its own systems.
We focus on the structural problems that limit what engineering teams can build and how fast they can build it.
Re-architect aging codebases and monolithic systems into modular, extensible architecture your team can ship against with confidence. Phased, with no service interruption.
Replace systems that cannot go down. Zero-loss data migration, shadow-traffic validation, dual-write windows, rollback paths at every step. We've done this at national scale.
Integrate ML, LLMs, and agent systems into platforms that already serve real customers and real regulators. Production-grade reliability, observability, and cost control — not pilots that don't ship.
HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI, FDA, GxP — we've shipped under all of them. Architecture, audit trails, and process documentation are built in from day one, not bolted on for review week.
We work in parallel with your existing roadmap — so modernization happens continuously, without halting delivery.
We embed with your engineering leadership to understand the architecture, the roadmap, and where delivery is stuck. Your vision and priorities set the plan; we bring the senior capacity to execute it.
We re-architect core systems and pipelines incrementally, alongside your team's existing commitments, under your tech leadership.
We bring your data infrastructure to a standard that supports real-time decisioning, AI workloads, and your next stage of growth.
We remain embedded to harden, validate, and fully document every system we touch — ensuring your team inherits something they can own and extend independently.
No disruptive rewrites. No delivery gaps. No institutional knowledge lost at handoff.
Continuous operation since 2015. Founders still leading the firm.
Mostly mid-market and enterprise. References available under NDA.
Clients keep us around because outcomes compound. Renewal, not turnover.
Senior-only network. We can staff a 5-engineer team in your stack inside a month.
Every engineer assigned to your account is L5+ with 7+ years of production experience and a track record at known names. Selected profiles from our current bench:
We've architected, shipped, and operated systems under every framework below. None of these are first-time territory for us.
PCI-DSS, SOX, real-time fraud and risk systems. Multi-region failover and audit-grade observability.
HIPAA, federated ML at national scale, trusted execution environments. Millions of patient records secured in production.
FDA, GxP, data sovereignty across multi-site research. Genomic pipelines unifying three geographically distributed labs.
$31B TVL governance protocols, audited smart contracts, multi-chain operations. Real money on the line, real consequences for downtime.
Anonymised where we have to, named where we can. Full references available under NDA during evaluation.
Modernized legacy Java system and implemented federated learning with trusted execution environments at national scale.
Built scalable data processing architecture unifying workflows across three geographically distributed sites.
Built full programmatic accountability layer from zero — data pipeline, attribution model, audit system.
Built and maintained full governance protocol — smart contracts, interface, testing, and system support at scale.
Agency delivered nothing. We built full campaign, mechanics, smart contracts, and UI from scratch in 3 weeks.
I started Magic Powered in 2015 after years around the big outsourcing shops, watching senior engineers drown in process built for juniors. The whole company came out of one argument: what's cheaper — ten juniors or one senior? A decade and 200+ clients later, the answer hasn't changed once. It's the senior. And with Claude Code and Cursor in the loop, one senior now does what used to take a team of twelve.
So that's all we hire. A small bench of seniors, stack- and task-agnostic, held to three things we don't compromise on: ownership, hard work, and no BS. We're not trying to be your strategy partner or your next co-founder — not everyone needs to be a founder. We're proud to be high-class contractors who plug into your team and ship. And we're Eastern European, so you'll get the honest answer whether you asked for it or not.
I'm a product person by trade — design-minded, with enough architecture depth to know when an engineer is being straight with me. That's usually the whole job.
Our engineers are based in Central and Eastern Europe. You get 4–6 hours of overlap with US Eastern every working day — standups, architecture reviews, and pairing happen in your morning. The rest of the day runs async, with everything in your tools and your repositories.
Yes. We routinely work under HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI, and GxP controls: your identity provider, your VPN, your device policy, background checks where required. We sign your NDA and DPA before any access is granted.
You do. All work is committed to your repositories under your accounts from day one, and our agreement assigns IP to you. Architecture records, runbooks, and documentation live in your systems, not ours.
We work in parallel with your roadmap, not instead of it. Modernization is phased: incremental migration, dual-write windows, shadow traffic, and rollback paths at every step — so nothing goes dark and your team's existing commitments stay on schedule.
We stay embedded long enough to document, harden, and hand off properly. Architecture decision records, runbooks, and pairing with your engineers are part of every engagement from the start — not a deliverable rushed at the end.
A flat monthly fee scaled to team size — no hourly billing, no change-order surprises. Typical modernization engagements run 12–36 months. We scope at 9 months minimum with a 1-month trial period up front, and there are no exit penalties if it isn't working.
Yes. Most clients start with a team of two on a scoped piece of work, reporting to your VP of Engineering or CTO — the plan and priorities are yours, execution is ours. If it's working, scale the team. If you need a formal architecture assessment first, we can run one, but most clients skip straight to embedding.
Yes, under NDA during evaluation. We'll connect you with engineering leaders at comparable organizations who've worked with the same engineers you'd be getting.