Codepool

Senior-only engineering · AI-accelerated

The build your team won’t have to rewrite.

Funded product teams hire us for greenfield builds when speed matters — and the architecture has to hold up two years later.

Sanjin ČabaravdićDžemal BijedićHaris Porobić

Led by hands-on principals with 15+ years shipping production software.

Engineering partner to teams at

  • Havas logo
  • DB Schenker logo
  • Gardena logo
  • CARIAD logo
  • Rotary International logo
$50M+
Processed on a Series A fintech we shipped
6× faster
E-commerce performance, 8-week rebuild
90 days
Stalled fintech to launched platform

Selected work

Four engagements where “good enough” would have been expensive.

One platform we built for ourselves. Three for funded product teams who couldn’t afford to ship the wrong thing. Each one documented end-to-end — outcome metrics, the architecture choices that made them stick, and the failure modes we now design every new build against.

If something’s broken, stalled, or due to ship — the engineer who’d lead it is one call away.

Get a 30-min architecture review

Engagements under NDA

Trust posture
  • CARIAD logo Automotive software 18 months
  • DB Schenker logo Logistics & supply chain 3 years
  • Gardena logo Consumer products Ongoing
  • Havas logo Advertising 6 months
  • Rotary International logo Global non-profit 2 years

Who we’re for

Founders and CTOs hire us at three specific moments.

Series A through growth-stage product companies in the US, UK, and Western Europe. The trigger is different each time. The shape of the engagement isn’t — one senior team, no junior delivery layer underneath.

  1. Moment 01

    You're three to six months from a launch or major release, and the architecture decisions made this quarter will define year three.

    Greenfield build

    Start the greenfield conversation

    One senior team owns delivery from architecture through QA.

  2. Moment 02

    You're shipping in volume — multiple releases a week — and the architecture review can't keep up with the feature pipeline.

    High-velocity delivery

    Start the velocity conversation

    A senior team carrying release cadence through the bottleneck without dropping the architectural bar.

  3. Moment 03

    A funded build is stalled, over-engineered, or behind a deadline that can't move.

    Project rescue

    Start the rescue conversation

    A structured Assess → Stabilize → Accelerate engagement led by hands-on technical leadership.

Probably not a fit

Hourly staff augmentation, sub-$100K one-shot builds, or RFPs scored primarily on rate.

Unsure on either side of the line?

Email a quick fit check

What we do

Greenfield first. High-velocity delivery when the bar can’t drop. Rescue when the build came before us.

Three engagement shapes, in the order we prefer. Mobile, embedded technical leadership, and architecture-only work live inside any of them — not as separate pillars.

  • 01 Greenfield builds

    Greenfield builds the architecture team will defend in year three.

    You're building from zero. The architecture and patterns chosen this quarter are either still in production three years from now — or they're the next team's rewrite.

    What we ship

    A full senior team — architecture, product, design, full-stack, mobile, QA. We own delivery, document the patterns, and hand back a codebase your team can keep extending without us.

    Best with

    • Fintech & regulated platforms
    • B2B SaaS
    • Mobile (iOS + Android)
    • Series A → growth-stage
  • 02 High-velocity delivery

    Volume delivery that doesn’t quietly mortgage year three.

    You're shipping in volume — sometimes too fast. Features land but the architecture review can't keep up, and each shortcut taken under the deadline becomes the next quarter's rewrite.

    What we ship

    A senior team carrying release cadence through the bottleneck — architecture, full-stack, QA — with ScrumGlide running the delivery surface so planning, review, and stakeholder comms stay tight without slowing the ship.

    Best with

    • Post-PMF scaling
    • Multi-team release coordination
    • Continuous release cadence
  • 03 Rescue & acceleration

    Structured rescue when a build has run out of schedule, budget, or both.

    Most rescue work comes from teams that hired the wrong shape of partner for the wrong moment. We've taken over enough of these to know the failure modes by name — the same pattern recognition is what keeps the other two pillars honest.

    What we ship

    A structured Assess → Stabilize → Accelerate engagement. Hands-on technical leadership, architecture reset, and the team to ship the version that should have shipped the first time.

    Best with

    • Pre-launch crunches
    • Performance & scaling rebuilds
    • Vendor handovers gone sideways

Also in scope

Mobile · iOS + Android
Native mobile delivered alongside web by the same senior team. App Store and Play Store clean on day one.
Embedded technical leadership
A senior architect or fractional CTO embedded in your team for the build — not a delivery manager managing one.
Architecture-only engagements
A structured architecture review or a multi-month architecture lead, without taking over delivery.

Investment & timeline

Full engagement
$200K–$1.5M  ·  8–24 weeks

Calibrated to the engagement shape during the architecture review.

Architecture-only
$25K+  ·  2–4 weeks

Written diagnostic + roadmap. No delivery commitment. Often the first step before a full engagement.

Not sure which pillar your engagement falls under?

Talk through fit

How we work

How a Codepool engagement actually runs.

The operational shape behind the positioning — timeline, team, cadence, and what week one looks like on your side of the table.

Typical duration
8–24 weeks

Decided in the architecture review. Shorter for performance rebuilds, longer for greenfield platforms.

Team size
4–7 seniors

Calibrated to the engagement shape. Same people from week one to handoff — no rotation.

Sprint cadence
Two weeks

Standing review every Friday. Sprint planning every other Monday. Daily standups asynchronous on ScrumGlide.

Architecture review
Monthly

Joint review with your CTO. Decisions, trade-offs, and the next 30 days of risk surfaced on one document.

Team composition by engagement

01

Greenfield build

  • Architect
  • Full-stack
  • UX / UI
  • Product / SCRUM
  • QA
Total seniors 6–7

02

High-velocity delivery

  • Architect
  • Full-stack
  • QA
  • Product / SCRUM
Total seniors 4–5

03

Project rescue

  • Technical leadership (embedded)
  • Architect
  • Full-stack
  • QA
Total seniors 5–6

Cadence & communication

  • Two-week sprints, Monday planning, Friday review

    You're in the planning. You're in the review. No filtered status decks — your CTO sees the same backlog the team ships from.

  • Shared Slack channel with response-time commitment

    One channel, your team and ours. Designated owner replies inside one business hour during overlap; async outside it.

  • ScrumGlide as the single delivery surface

    Backlog, sprint board, code review, stakeholder updates — one source of truth, the same one our team operates on.

  • Monthly architecture review with your CTO

    Joint review of the decisions made, the risk taken, and the trade-offs deferred. One document, one hour, no slide theatre.

Week one

  1. Mon

    Kickoff with the full team

    Your CTO, the seven seniors who’d ship this build, and a shared whiteboard. Two hours, not four.

  2. Tue–Wed

    Architecture deep dive

    Codebase walkthrough for rescue / velocity work; whiteboard for greenfield. We surface the failure modes we’d design against, in writing, before anyone writes code.

  3. Thu

    Sprint 0 planning

    Risks, dependencies, observability requirements, week-by-week deliverables for the first sprint. Backlog enters ScrumGlide before the day ends.

  4. Fri

    Working environment live

    CI, observability, and a deploy pipeline running by Friday afternoon. First demo against your acceptance criteria the following Friday.

Handoff — the last four weeks

  • Weeks N−4 to N−2

    Pair on every PR

    Your engineers review every Codepool PR. Code ownership starts shifting back before the calendar says it does.

  • Weeks N−2 to N−1

    Documentation freeze, runbook walkthrough

    Architecture decision records, runbooks, on-call rotation, deployment checklist — walked through with your team, not handed over in a folder.

  • Week N

    Final architecture review + 30-day retainer

    Closing review of patterns, debt taken, and roadmap risks. 30 days of on-call retainer included — your team owns the build, we stay one Slack message away.

The framework

Assess Architect Ship

The greenfield shape. Rescue work runs a parallel framework — Assess → Stabilize → Accelerate, with the same discipline calibrated to the failure mode.

Want to walk through this against your engagement?

Book a 30-min architecture review

The team

The seven seniors who’d be on your build.

Every engineer is senior. The CEO, COO, and CTO are still ICs — what you see in proposal is who ships.

7
senior
3
full-stack
1
UX / UI
1
product / SCRUM
2
QA
3
still ICs

Leadership

  • Sanjin Čabaravdić

    Sanjin Čabaravdić

    CEO & Founder

    Also an IC

    Senior Full-Stack Engineer

    LinkedIn
  • Džemal Bijedić

    Džemal Bijedić

    COO & Founder

    Also an IC

    UX / UI Lead

    LinkedIn
  • Haris Porobić

    Haris Porobić

    CTO

    Also an IC

    Senior Full-Stack Engineer

    LinkedIn

Senior engineering

  • Anđelko Cvjetković Senior Full-Stack Engineer
  • Darija Fajković Čabaravdić Senior Product / SCRUM Master
  • Emir Fetahović Senior QA Engineer
  • Mirza Zerdo Senior QA Engineer

Talk through your build with the team that would ship it. No SDR, no qualification call.

Get a 30-min architecture review

What clients say

On time. Precise. Built to last.

The three signals every client keeps coming back to — across web, native mobile, fintech, e-commerce, and enterprise systems.

  • “What made Codepool stand out was their ability to understand our industry deeply enough to anticipate issues before they surfaced. They never over-promise, they deliver exactly what was agreed, on time and at consistently high quality. A reliable, thoughtful, and creative engineering partner.”
    Erol Orahovac

    Erol Orahovac

    CEO · Zyox

  • “I've worked with Codepool across several web and mobile projects, and they consistently bring together strong engineering talent and excellent project leadership. They adapt to our timelines, collaborate seamlessly with our team, and deliver dependable results every time.”
    Rosita Wong

    Rosita Wong

    CEO · HealthJay

  • “The Codepool team impressed us with how quickly they understood our business and how their UX decisions supported our strategic goals. From early discovery to final design, they added real expertise and delivered results that exceeded expectations.”
    Corentin Cremet

    Corentin Cremet

    CEO · ORKA

  • “We chose Codepool for complex mobile development work, and they delivered flawlessly, on schedule, on spec, and without surprises. Their engineers work in perfect sync, which is incredibly rare. Both iOS and Android apps launched smoothly and passed review without issues.”

    Fawaad Welch

    CEO · Slipstream Creative

  • “Codepool plans and executes with a level of precision that's rare. They build for the long term with clean architecture, no throwaway work, and no expensive redesigns down the road. If you value technical integrity and sustainable growth, they're the partner you want.”
    Matt Di Giorgio

    Matt Di Giorgio

    Private Consultant

  • “Codepool didn't just meet expectations, they set a new standard for what we expect from an engineering partner. They understood our business case, designed the right technical approach, and delivered the entire project on time and cost-effectively.”
    May Ling Lai

    May Ling Lai

    Private Consultant

Our products

Two products. Both ours. Both in production.

Consultancies that ship their own software hold themselves to a different bar. ScrumGlide runs every Codepool engagement. TableTap is live with paying restaurants.

  • ScrumGlide sprint board and sprint health dashboard, showing tickets, burndown chart, forecast, and team workload
    ScrumGlide Engineering teams

    AI-augmented Scrum delivery

    The Scrum-native delivery platform we built for our own team — AI assistance for tickets, planning, and stakeholder communication, with sprint health tracking and deviation alerts. Used by other senior engineering teams who want AI inside the delivery loop, not bolted on top of the product.

    • AI ticket generation
    • AI-assisted code review
    • Sprint health tracking
    • Stakeholder updates
  • TableTap restaurant operations interface, showing the server order management view, live kitchen tickets, and the guest-side mobile menu
    TableTap Hospitality

    Real-time restaurant operations

    Guests browse, order, and pay from the table. Staff manage the floor through a fast service interface. Live in production with paying restaurants today — built for hospitality where speed and accuracy directly drive revenue.

    • Guest table ordering
    • Server floor management
    • Live kitchen tickets
    • Multi-currency

Talk to a principal

Tell us what you’re building.

One message reaches Sanjin directly. He reads every inbound and replies within one business day — no SDR, no qualification call.

What happens next

  1. Reply within one business day

    Sanjin reads every inbound and responds personally. No SDR, no qualification call.

  2. 30-minute architecture review

    Schedule a call with Sanjin and Haris. We tell you whether we are the right fit before discussing scope.

  3. Fixed-shape written proposal

    Scope, team composition, timeline, price. One document, before any commitment.

Sanjin Čabaravdić

Sanjin Čabaravdić

CEO & Founder ·Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Sarajevo HQ · CET. Comfortable with US, UK and EU schedules.

We treat every inbound as confidential. No mailing list. No follow-up sequence.

The build that doesn’t need to be rebuilt.