Software engineering
you can count on
Specialist software engineering services across backend development, build and packaging, deployment automation, API integrations, security and more.
Powering your engineers,
so you can drive your business
We take care of the critical parts of your software infrastructure, helping your team build more securely, ship faster and reduce the errors that can lead to downtime, disruption and lost revenue.
Services
Deployment Automation
Make deployments predictable.
We design CI/CD pipelines that automate building, testing and releasing software — replacing fragile manual processes with reliable, repeatable deployments.
Development & Integration
The systems your product depends on.
Build robust backend systems and integrations that connect applications, platforms and legacy technology, without replacing software that already works.
System Administration
Keep your infrastructure running.
We provide deep Linux and UNIX expertise across infrastructure, performance, monitoring, hardening and difficult production problems.
Build & Packaging
Make software build and ship reliably.
We create and fix packaging and build processes across RPM, DEB, NPM, PIP, Maven and more — making releases repeatable and maintainable.
Security Consulting
Find vulnerabilities. Fix them properly.
From CVE research and vulnerability validation to patch backporting and security reviews, we bring practical, hands-on security expertise to your codebase.
Porting & Migrations
Move legacy software forward.
We port and modernise software across Linux, AIX, FreeBSD, Solaris, Darwin and other platforms — including codebases that have been around for decades.
Our Work
Ansible Playbooks
Production-ready playbooks to automate the configuration and management of Linux infrastructure.
Trackz - Usage Analytics
Automatically capture application, process and window activity, recording what was in focus and when.
Integrated payment solution
A mobile-first ordering platform that integrates payment solutions directly into the ordering journey.
Why Us
Engineering expertise where things actually break. Most DevOps consultancies are built around cloud-native infrastructure and modern tooling. We bring something different: two decades of hands-on engineering experience in packaging, build systems, deployment and automation — working at the level where software meets the operating system.
We understand what happens when a spec file is wrong, a patch doesn't apply cleanly, a dependency isn't where the installer expects it, or software that works perfectly in development fails when it reaches production.
That depth matters when the problem isn't simply "does the code work?", but "can we build it, ship it, deploy it and keep it running reliably?" That's our territory.
Meet the Founders
Zoë Fiddes
Zoë Fiddes is CEO and co-founder of SOLWORK with 20 years of experience building businesses, leading teams and helping customers get value from technology.
Her career spans technology and financial markets, with experience across project management, product strategy and operations. She has worked with organisations ranging from fast-growing technology companies to large global enterprises, helping translate complex products and problems into practical solutions for customers.
At SOLWORK, Zoë brings the commercial and customer perspective to the engineering team — making sure the technology we build solves the right problems, delivers real value and works for the people who actually use it.
Jesse Portnoy
Jesse Portnoy is CTO and co-founder of SOLWORK and a software engineer with more than two decades of experience building and running complex software systems.
His expertise spans backend engineering, Linux and UNIX, build and packaging systems, deployment automation, security and software modernisation. He has worked across open-source projects, large-scale production systems and enterprise environments, with a particular talent for untangling difficult problems at the intersection of software and infrastructure.
Jesse brings that depth of experience to teams that need pragmatic, senior engineering expertise — whether that means solving a stubborn technical problem, modernising legacy systems or building something new.