WATAJIS exists because we believe consultancies should deliver what they promise.
If something takes six months, we'll tell you it takes six months. If we're not the right fit for your project, we'll say so immediately. If a rewrite isn't necessary (it usually isn't), we'll tell you that too.
We're a distributed team of staff engineers, senior engineers, architects, and designers. We're good at what we do, we're honest about what we don't know, and we think that makes us pretty good to work with.
HOW WE WORK
We work alongside your team.
Not as external consultants who parachute in with recommendations and disappear. Your team knows the business constraints and domain logic. We know the technical solutions and architectural patterns. Together, we figure out what actually works for your situation.
We're remote by default but flexible about when being on-site adds value.
Some conversations work better face-to-face, so we'll suggest it when it helps.
At the end of a project, we're proud of what we built together.
That shows in the code, the documentation, and the knowledge transfer. We leave things better than we found them.
WHAT IT'S LIKE TO WORK WITH US
Straight Talk. No corporate speak.
If we disagree with your approach, we'll tell you why. If we run into an unexpected problem, you'll hear about it the same day, not three weeks later when it's become a crisis.
Collaborative Problem-Solving
We don't show up with a pre-packaged solution. We listen, we ask questions, we understand your constraints (technical, business, budget, timeline). Your team's expertise plus our technical depth equals better solutions than either of us could create alone.
Work That Lasts
Our people know the difference between a quick fix that creates technical debt and a real solution your team can build on. When we finish a project, you get architecture that can evolve as your business grows and code your team can actually maintain.
People You Want to Work With
We hire for both talent and personality. Smart people who listen, communicate clearly, and actually enjoy collaboration. The kind who'll admit when they're wrong and change course instead of defending a bad decision.
OUR TEAM
Perl Experts
Authors, core contributors, CPAN maintainers. They know Perl inside out, and they're still active in the community. Their knowledge is current, not frozen in time.
Enterprise Architects
Our architects have built platforms handling billions of records daily across telecommunications, payments, and healthcare. They write code. They understand what it takes to implement what they're designing.
Staff & Senior Engineers
Experts in performance optimization, systems programming, database architecture, and complex platforms. The kind of engineers who dive into profiling data and find bottlenecks nobody else spotted.
UX/UI Designers
Accessibility standards specialists who believe that compliance and aesthetic excellence aren't mutually exclusive. Interfaces that are accessible in the real sense, usable by actual people.
Frontend Developers
React and Vue.js, with accessibility built in from the start. Type safety, state management, and automated tests that verify accessibility stays intact as the codebase evolves.
AI Practitioners
Engineers first. They bring their experience to AI, hold it to the same standards as their own code, and push back when it isn't the right tool. That's what we teach.