Aldo Russo
Co-founder · Engineering & architecture
Designs the systems and writes the boring parts that keep them running. Background in distributed backends, Postgres, observability, and getting cloud infrastructure to behave under real traffic.
About
Two engineers, two decades, one studio.
development.quest is the studio Aldo Russo and Carlos Canelon founded after nineteen years of building production software for other people. Now we build it for our own clients, on our own terms.
Background
Nineteen years of shipping. One year as a studio.
We started writing software for production in 2006. Since then we have shipped enterprise platforms, internal tools, mobile apps, and AI integrations across half a dozen industries. In 2024 we stopped doing it under other people's names and started doing it under ours.
The studio is intentionally small. We staff every project with the people who will actually do the work, and we do not subcontract.
- Founded
- 2024, by two engineers writing production code since 2006.
- Team
- Senior-only. No juniors on client codebases.
- Working hours
- Remote, overlap with EU and US East Coast business hours.
Founders
Who you actually work with.
Carlos Canelon
Co-founder · Product & frontend
Translates messy requirements into interfaces engineers can actually build and users can actually use. Background in product engineering, design systems, and the long tail of mobile and web frontend work.
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