A boutique for the work AI can't finish.

Senior engineering for what has to ship.

Generated code is the easy part. We bring the architecture, integration and production ownership a model can't hold — for several DAX 40 companies and the SMEs who move the DACH economy.

PROOF.

SME to DAX 40 — range is the proof, not size.

Four durable facts about how we work — not a case-study reel. The details live in NDAs; the posture lives here.
  • RANGE

    DAX 40 + SME

    Engineering partner for several DAX 40 companies and SMEs across DACH. We fit both ends of the market, not just one.

  • STACK

    OPC-UA · MQTT · Kafka

    One coherent pipeline from sensor to event stream. Scala, Rust, Go, and Python for data science — cloud-native on Kubernetes.

  • TRUST

    BSI IT-Grundschutz

    Certified by Germany's Federal Office for Information Security — full-company scope, based on ISO 27001. AWS Select Partner. EU-hosted.

  • UPTIME

    9-5 → 24/7

    SLAs that match the severity of the system. Many of our builds are still in production years later — operated by us, or handed over to the customer.

Industrial · Automotive · Energy · Logistics · Manufacturing

THESIS.

Why Core exists

We started Core Technologies because the problems we wanted to work on fell into a gap — too ambitious for generic dev shops, too integrated for industrial integrators, and now too consequential to hand to a model. The AI era hasn't made judgment less valuable. It's made it the whole game. We built the team that brings it: senior engineers who ship production systems, and who can sit in a room with a CFO, a plant manager, or a board and talk about the business in its own language — then go write the code that moves those numbers.

PRINCIPLES · 4 things we hold to

  • 01.

    Judgment, not code.

    We use AI to go faster. We ship decisions, not generated output.

  • 02.

    Seniors ship.

    Every engineer has 8+ years behind them. No pyramid, nowhere to hide, nowhere to coast.

  • 03.

    Build to harden.

    Demos are easy. Second-year systems are hard. We build for the second year.

  • 04.

    Fluent in the business.

    Unit economics, OEE, platform risk — whatever your language, our engineers speak it. Then they write the code.

THE TEAM.

Small by design. Senior by default.

  • 8+.

    years, every senior — no juniors on the line

  • Europe.

    remote-first, HQ Essen, EU data residency

  • End-to-end.

    edge → cloud → LLM in production

CAPABILITIES · what we ship, not how many of us ship it

  • 01.

    Edge & Gateway

    Fleet, OTA, device identity, offline-first.

  • 02.

    Platform & SaaS

    Multi-tenant, billing, auth, observability from day one.

  • 03.

    Industrial Data

    OT ↔ IT bridges, time-series at scale, sensor fusion.

  • 04.

    LLM in Production

    RAG and tool-use integration for existing platforms. Evals, cost controls, guard-rails.

  • 05.

    Observability & SRE

    SLOs, tracing, incident discipline, post-mortems that change code.

  • 06.

    Cloud-Native Architecture

    Event-driven on Kafka, microservices on Kubernetes — our bread and butter, from the first commit.

  • 07.

    Own Edge Hardware

    We build our own intelligent edge gateway for industrial data ingestion — separate landing page follows.

  • 08.

    Regulated Delivery

    GDPR, ISO-aligned change control, audit-ready from the first commit.

No names, no photos, no AI-generated faces. The count on screen is capabilities — not engineers. See /privacy.

TRACK RECORD.

Where the work has gone.

Engagement-level proof without NDAs in the way. No client names, no logos — if you want references, we will broker an introduction.
  • ENERGY

    Trading-floor automation inside several major European energy traders.

  • INDUSTRIAL

    Asset-optimization systems across industrial, manufacturing, and energy operations.

  • DAX 40

    Customer-facing products shipped for DAX 40 companies.

We ship greenfield builds — and we rescue stalled ones. Systems we've built are still in production years later, whether we operate them or the customer took over.

WORK WITH US · Speculative-only.

We're selective about when we hire.

If you're a senior engineer who ships — edge, platform, or production AI — we want to hear from you, even when we're not actively recruiting.

CONTACT.

Put us in a room with your hardest system.

Send a line, or book 30 minutes. Either way you get an engineer, not an account manager.