Built by an engineer who stayed an engineer.
Copser is deliberately small: a consultancy formed around one senior practitioner rather than a bench of interchangeable staff. That's not a limitation to grow out of — it's the offer.
The founder is a backend-specialized software engineer with roughly five years on enterprise and public-sector platforms — the large-scale, compliance-heavy, security-conscious kind, where a data model outlives three governments' worth of requirements changes and an auth mistake is a headline, not a bug ticket. That environment shapes an engineer in specific ways: you learn to design before you build, to document as you go, and to treat "it works on my machine" as the beginning of the conversation rather than the end.
The depth of that work sits in the Java and Spring ecosystem — Spring Boot, Spring Security, REST APIs, JPA/Hibernate, PostgreSQL — and in the architecture around it: microservices, OAuth2 and single sign-on, JWT-based session design, secure API gateways. The range extends across the full system: frontend integration, cloud deployment, and complete design-to-production delivery, including for international clients.
Copser exists because that combination — deep security-conscious backend craft plus full-delivery capability — is usually only available inside large firms, wrapped in account management and delivered by whoever happens to be on the bench. Here, the person you talk to is the person who does the work.
- Discipline
- Backend & security-conscious systems engineering — with full-stack and delivery range
- Formation
- ~5 years on enterprise & public-sector platforms — large-scale, compliance-heavy, security-critical
- Domains
- Identity & access, API platforms, data-intensive services, operational systems
- Core stack
- Java · Spring Boot · Spring Security · JPA/Hibernate · PostgreSQL · OAuth2/SSO · JWT · Microservices
- Engagements
- Advisory and end-to-end delivery — remote-first, international clients welcome
A boutique engineering partner
Senior-level design and delivery with a single accountable engineer, honest scoping, and documentation you own. Small engagements done well over large engagements done adequately.
A body shop or a buzzword vendor
No junior bench billed at senior rates, no "AI-powered digital transformation" packaging, no claiming expertise we don't have. When a problem needs a specialist we aren't, we say so and help you find one.
Out of respect for prior obligations, this site names no former employers, clients or projects. The work speaks in its methods — ask us anything in conversation. — Disclosure note