About · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

A small Vancouver firm that takes production seriously

DigiCoyote builds software for companies that have outgrown whatever got them here. Usually that means a system that works but will not scale, a team that is shipping slower every quarter, or a project that has to land and cannot slip.

We are based in Vancouver and work with clients across Canada and the US. Being on Pacific time means we overlap with the whole continent - and when a project involves hardware, we can be in the room with the device.

We are deliberately small. Every engagement gets people who have run systems in production and have opinions about why they break - because the hard part was never writing the code.

How we operate

Four things we do not compromise on

Senior people do the work

The engineers in the kickoff call are the engineers writing the code. We do not staff a pitch with principals and deliver with juniors.

Boring technology, deliberately

We reach for Postgres, a typed language, and a proven framework before anything novel. Novelty gets spent where it earns you something.

Write it down

Decisions get recorded with their tradeoffs. When someone asks in eighteen months why the system works this way, there is an answer.

Leave people better off

Your team should be more capable at the end than at the start. We pair, review, and hand over - the goal is that you do not need us next time.

Who you work with

The people leading the work

Ben leads the front end and Aaron the back end, though the line between them moves depending on the project. They head a small senior team - and they are on your project rather than supervising it from a distance.

Aaron Wylie

Founder & Principal Engineer

Aaron started DigiCoyote in 2000 and has spent over twenty-five years on the server side: relational data models, typed APIs, and the infrastructure that keeps them running. Mostly TypeScript and Postgres now, Python where there is hardware in the loop, deployed in containers behind nginx on cloud he runs himself.

With Ben he co-invented APPIX, a patented Bluetooth Low Energy broadcast platform that reaches a venue full of phones with no network at all. He is opinionated about observability, and about the difference between a system that works and a system you can diagnose when it stops.

Back end & APIs
Real-time systems
Observability

Ben Wylie

Senior Frontend Engineer

Ben is a senior frontend engineer and co-invented APPIX with Aaron. His work is component architecture, state and rendering behaviour - the parts that decide whether an interface stays fast once real data arrives instead of the seed data it was built against.

He designs the architecture and the interface against each other, so the data model and the screens agree from the start instead of being reconciled at integration. He works fast with AI tooling and reviews everything it produces. And he is the one who finds the edge case - the empty state nobody designed, the error path nobody handled, the race that only shows up on a slow connection.

Front end
Usability
Software architecture

Working with us

What an engagement actually looks like

No surprises in the contract, and none in the delivery either.

Based in Vancouver, BC - Pacific time, overlapping the whole continent
On site for hardware, kiosk and installation work in the Lower Mainland
Small senior team, no offshore delivery layer
Fixed-scope discovery before any build commitment
Code in your repos and infrastructure in your accounts from day one
Weekly demos against a written plan, not status decks
Documented handover and a support window on every engagement

Ready to build something that lasts?

Tell us what you are trying to ship. We will tell you how we would approach it - scope, stack, and timeline - before you commit to anything.

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