About us
A consultancy built by engineers, for outcomes
Aurene LLC is a team of senior technologists who help companies turn ambitious ideas into software that ships and scales.
We build the opposite of the slideware consultancy: senior engineers, honest trade-offs, and software you actually own.
Aurene began with a simple frustration: too many software projects are staffed by juniors, managed by slideware, and measured by how many tickets close rather than whether the business actually moves. Every engagement here is led by senior engineers who have shipped and operated real systems, and who stay accountable from the first architecture call to the last production incident.
We care about outcomes, not output. That means telling you when a feature isn’t worth building, choosing the boring technology that will still run in five years, and writing down the trade-offs we made so no one has to reverse-engineer them later. Honest engineering sometimes means shorter invoices and harder conversations; we would rather keep the relationship than pad the scope.
We build software to hand it over. Your team should be able to read the code, run it, extend it, and sleep through the night without us on call. When we leave, you should feel that you own something solid, not that you inherited a black box only its authors understand.
What we value
Principles we don't compromise on
Four commitments that shape every engagement — the reasons clients bring us back.
Senior hands on the keyboard
The people who design your system are the ones who write and operate it. We do not sell a senior pitch and staff the delivery with juniors learning on your budget.
Say the hard thing early
If scope is wrong, a deadline is unrealistic, or a feature won't earn its keep, we tell you before the work starts, not in the retrospective. Bad news does not age well.
You own everything we make
Code, infrastructure, documentation, and decisions are yours from day one. We write for the engineer who inherits this after us, so nothing important lives only in our heads.
Boring technology on purpose
We choose tools for how they behave at 3 a.m. two years from now, not for how they look in a conference talk. Novelty has to earn its place against the cost of maintaining it.
The team
Senior people, on the keyboard
The people who scope your work are the ones who build it. Here's who you'd be working with.
Adrian Gray
Founder & CEO
Sets the vision and leads client strategy across the firm's engagements.
Nadia Hoffmann
Head of Engineering
Owns delivery and engineering standards across every project.
Rahul Menon
Head of AI & Data
Leads the firm's applied AI and data practice.
Sofia Marchetti
Head of Design
Shapes product and brand experience for clients.
How we engage
Ways to work with us
Pick the shape that fits your stage — we'll tell you honestly which one we'd choose.
Embedded team
Senior engineers join your team and ship inside your process, stack, and cadence.
- Scales up or down
- Your stack, your standards
- Knowledge stays in-house
Fixed-scope project
A defined outcome, owned end to end, delivered on a clear timeline and budget.
- Explicit scope & trade-offs
- Milestone delivery
- Handover built in
Advisory
Architecture reviews, technical due diligence, and a senior second opinion when it counts.
- Architecture & code audits
- Roadmap & risk review
- Fractional tech leadership
Have a project in mind?
Tell us where you’re headed. We’ll tell you the fastest, soundest way to get there.