Black Dog Labs

Your Deployment Partners.

Providing specialist teams to Fintech, Investment Banks and Government Organisations since 2012.

What we do

Built for the real world

We embed specialist engineers directly into your organisation, bringing the tools and techniques that modern financial and government systems demand.

Measure Everything

Use traces and metrics to track everything in your system. We build open-source observability stacks with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and Grafana — so you own your data.

Cutting Edge

Scalable and responsive architecture. We use cutting-edge techniques to gain insight — Kubernetes, event-driven patterns, and cloud-native tooling at production scale.

Professional

Get the right people at the right time to manage your technical requirements. Our engineers have delivered across Fintech, Investment Banking, and UK Government programmes.

Selected work

Clients we've served

From government digital transformation to fintech product delivery, we've shipped systems that matter.

Home Office — Passport Exemplar

Delivered specialist engineering to the UK Home Office Passport Exemplar programme, one of the flagship Government Digital Service projects modernising passport processing infrastructure.

Pixie — Crypto Payments

Built the technical backbone for Pixie's mobile crypto payments platform, enabling fast, compliant digital asset transactions for retail consumers.

The people

Some of our team

Our team of experts are there to help you deploy and support your systems, letting you take advantage of best-in-class software.

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Jim Collins

Lead Technical Architect

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Andrey Kozichev

Lead DevOps Engineer (Kubernetes)

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Nicholas Smith

Application Architect

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Romain Gallet

Streaming & Event Driven Architecture

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Prashanth Kumar

Software Engineer (Java/Clojure)

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Priya Patel

UX Researcher

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Lee Provoost

Senior Software Engineer (Go/Rust)

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Andy Gray

Senior DevOps Engineer (Kubernetes)

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Rohit Gokhale

Senior DevOps Engineer (Kubernetes)

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