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Drupal Engineering
Complex Drupal platforms built to last: migrations, custom modules, content architecture, performance tuning, and modern headless builds.
WEB & APP WORKSHOP • DENVER, CO
We design, build, and maintain production-ready web and mobile products.
ColibriCode is a hands-on engineering workshop based in Denver, Colorado. We build complete web and mobile products from scratch—and we improve existing platforms when the stakes are high. Our core stack includes Drupal, Symfony, Laravel, React/Next.js, mobile, Python services, Go microservices, and DevOps. The goal is production-ready systems your team can own and evolve.
HOW WE THINK
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From discovery to production: architecture, build, launch, and long-term evolution.
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You own the code and IP. We own the engineering execution and delivery quality.
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Senior engineers only: small teams, direct collaboration, no junior handoffs.
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Success is measurable: shipped features, stable releases, and systems that scale.
SERVICES
Senior-led engineering for production web and app products.
We build from scratch and modernize existing systems using a focused stack. Expect strong architecture, clear milestones, and production-first delivery: reliable backends, fast frontends, services that scale, and DevOps practices that keep everything healthy after launch.
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Symfony & Laravel Backends
Production backends from scratch: APIs, workflows, multi-tenant SaaS, admin dashboards, RBAC, and integrations tailored to real operations.
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Python APIs & Automation
Python services that keep systems moving: APIs, workers, ETL pipelines, integrations, and automation designed for reliability and traceability.
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Web Applications (React / Next.js)
Modern web products built for speed and clarity: SSR/SEO, dashboards, design systems, performance, and maintainable front-end architecture.
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Mobile Apps
Cross-platform apps connected to real backends: authentication, sync strategies, analytics, notifications, and release pipelines.
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Go Microservices & Workers
High-throughput services and workers: event-driven processing, background pipelines, profiling-led performance, and clean service boundaries.
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DevOps, CI/CD & Observability
Production readiness end-to-end: CI/CD, environments, monitoring, logging, alerting, hardening, and operational playbooks.
STACK & CAPABILITIES
The stack we lead with.
Your product deserves proven tools. Dive deeper into the parts of the stack we use the most, and how we apply them in real projects.
Drupal Engineering
Custom modules, headless, migrations, performance.
Read moreSymfony & Laravel
APIs, SaaS backends, auth and RBAC.
Read moreNext.js & React
SSR, design systems, dashboards, SEO.
Read moreMobile Apps
Cross-platform, offline-first, push & analytics.
Read moreGo Services
High-throughput services, workers, pipelines.
Read moreDevOps & Cloud
CI/CD, containers, observability, hardening.
Read moreWHO WE WORK WITH
Teams that get the most value from ColibriCode.
We’re a great fit when there is real product work to do, ownership to share, and a stack that needs senior attention—whether that’s Drupal, Python, Go, or all of the above.
Scale-ups • Mid-market • Enterprise units
Product & Marketing Teams
You own a product that needs to ship faster without breaking quality.
- You have real user-facing work that must land reliably.
- You want a senior team that can own features end-to-end.
- You care about performance, SEO, and long-term maintainability.
Heads of Eng • CTOs • Tech Leads
Engineering Leaders
You have a roadmap, but need more senior execution capacity.
- You want extra capacity without lowering the quality bar.
- You need engineers who can read existing systems and improve them safely.
- You value partners who challenge assumptions and reduce risk early.
Seed to Series B • New business lines
Founders & Operators
You need a real product in production, not just a prototype.
- You want to build from scratch with senior technical leadership.
- You prefer clear milestones, transparent delivery, and predictable progress.
- You want to own your code, infrastructure, and IP from day one.
CAPABILITIES
What we actually do inside your stack.
Beyond buzzwords, here is what ColibriCode teams build and maintain day-to-day across CMS, backend, Python data work, frontend, and infrastructure.
◆Drupal
- Custom modules & distributions
- Headless / decoupled builds
- Migration from legacy CMS
- Caching & performance tuning
◆Symfony & Laravel
- REST & GraphQL APIs
- Multi-tenant SaaS platforms
- Complex authorization models
- Background jobs & queues
◆Python & Data
- Fast REST APIs with modern Python frameworks
- ETL pipelines and data ingestion workflows
- Automation scripts, integrations, and glue code
- Reporting backends and data quality checks
◆Web Apps
- Next.js & React interfaces
- Design systems & component libraries
- SEO-friendly and fast
- Role-based dashboards
◆Mobile Apps
- Cross-platform app development
- Offline-first and sync strategies
- Push notifications & in-app messaging
- App store deployment support
◆Go Services
- High-performance APIs
- Event-driven pipelines
- Workers and schedulers
- Monitoring & profiling
◆DevOps & Cloud
- CI/CD pipelines
- Containerization & orchestration
- Observability & alerting
- Security and hardening
WHY COLIBRICODE
A workshop mindset with long-term ownership.
We’re not here to throw code over the wall. We make sure what we build can be owned and extended by your team later.
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A workshop model built for ownership.
We operate as a small, senior team that shares responsibility for outcomes—architecture, delivery, and long-term maintainability—not just tickets.
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Depth over breadth in the stack.
We stay focused: Drupal, Symfony, Laravel, modern React/Next.js, Python, Go, and DevOps. If it’s not a stack we can lead confidently, we say no.
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Production-first engineering.
We design for real traffic, real users, and real failures. Performance, security, observability, and operability are part of the build—not an afterthought.
ENGAGEMENT MODELS
Ways we plug into your product work.
Different stages need different shapes of collaboration. We keep our models simple and transparent.
Project-based delivery
A defined phase with clear scope, milestones, and deliverables—ideal for building from scratch or shipping a major release with senior ownership.
BEST FOR
Best for greenfield builds, redesigns, platform launches, and time-boxed modernization.
Embedded squad
A senior ColibriCode team working alongside your engineers, sharing tools and rituals, and owning complete features end-to-end.
BEST FOR
Best for ongoing roadmaps where you need more senior capacity without lowering standards.
Rescue & stabilization
We inherit a struggling codebase, stabilize production, reduce operational noise, and put delivery back on a predictable track.
BEST FOR
Best for legacy platforms, missed deadlines, reliability issues, and high-impact incidents.
HOW WE WORK
A clear, opinionated delivery process.
Whether we’re tuning a Drupal site, building a Python API, or splitting a Go service out of a monolith, we follow the same rhythm: learn fast, ship small, and leave things better than we found them.
01 • Discovery & audit
Get clarity on goals, constraints, and risk.
We align on outcomes, review constraints, and map the system. If there’s existing code, we run a targeted audit to identify risk, performance bottlenecks, and the fastest path to a safe first milestone.
02 • Shaping the work
Define a first milestone that ships real value.
We translate goals into a shippable slice, define scope and success metrics, and agree on delivery rhythm. You leave with a plan that makes trade-offs explicit and keeps delivery predictable.
03 • Build & iterate
Ship in small increments with visible progress.
We deliver demo-able increments across backend, frontend, services, and infrastructure. You always know what’s done, what’s next, and what decisions were made and why.
04 • Stabilize & handover
Operational readiness and a clean exit path.
We harden for production, add monitoring and alerts, document the critical paths, and ensure your team can run and extend the system confidently after the milestone is complete.
CASE STUDIES
Selected work and measurable outcomes.
We focus on outcomes: fewer manual steps, faster releases, stable operations, and systems that teams can own long-term. The details vary—Drupal platforms, SaaS backends, infrastructure, or data services—but the goal is always production readiness and measurable improvement.
SaaS / DevOps
MonkeysCloud Platform
Web agencies & dev teams (MonkeysCloud)
9 months to v1 • ongoing evolution
TECHNOLOGY STACK
Symfony APIs + Next.js app + Python workers + Drupal 10 site + Terraform
THE CHALLENGE
Agencies were juggling separate tools for tasks, Git, deployments, and server management. Spinning up a new project meant repeating the same manual setup on snowflake servers, with no single place to see project health.
OUR SOLUTION
We built MonkeysCloud as a multi-tenant control plane: Symfony APIs as the core brain, a Next.js app as the main dashboard, Python workers for backups and health checks, a Drupal 10 site for the marketing layer, and Terraform to codify all infrastructure for repeatable, safe provisioning.
Project Setup Time
Hours → Minutes
Manual Server Work
↓ ~70%
Deployment Consistency
Standardized via Terraform
Managed Projects Capacity
↑ ~30% per team
SaaS / Infrastructure
MonkeysMail Email Infrastructure
Product teams using MonkeysMail
12 months to stable v1 • ongoing
TECHNOLOGY STACK
PHP mail APIs + hardened mail servers + Next.js dashboard + Terraform
THE CHALLENGE
Teams needed reliable transactional email (SMTP and HTTP APIs) but didn’t want to own Postfix configs, DNS, deliverability tuning, and queue monitoring. There was no unified place to manage domains, credentials, and webhooks.
OUR SOLUTION
We designed a PHP-based API layer for sending, routing, and tracking messages, with a Next.js dashboard for domains, DNS, API keys, and webhooks. A hardened mail server cluster powers delivery, while Terraform provisions and scales the infrastructure reproducibly across environments and regions.
Domain Onboarding
Days → < 1 hour
Manual Server Tweaks
↓ ~80%
Deliverability
Improved vs. prior ad-hoc setup
Incidents / Month
Significant reduction
Aerospace / Deep Tech
ColibriV Digital Platform
ColibriV (internal product)
3 months initial build • ongoing brand work
TECHNOLOGY STACK
Next.js site + Drupal 11 content hub
THE CHALLENGE
ColibriV needed a serious public face for a hydrogen-combustion aircraft program—technology roadmap, certification path, and climate impact—while keeping updates easy for a small team and credible for investors and institutions.
OUR SOLUTION
We used Drupal 11 as the structured content hub for technology pages, roadmaps, and updates, and built a fast, polished Next.js frontend optimized for SEO and storytelling. The site is tuned for investor traffic, with clear flows to learn about the aircraft, the engine program, and funding needs.
SEO Technical Score
≈ 98 / 100
Page Performance
↑ ~45% vs. initial prototype
Content Publishing
Weekly → Same-day updates
Investor Readiness
Stronger first impression & clarity
DENVER • REMOTE-FIRST
Aligned with US timezones, comfortable with global teams.
We’re based in Denver, Colorado and work remote-first, primarily in US hours with reliable overlap for both coasts and parts of Europe. You can expect direct communication, documented decisions, and delivery that stays predictable as scope and systems evolve.
Clear written communication with a bias toward visible progress.
Architecture and engineering decisions explained in plain language.
Documentation that helps your team operate and extend the system confidently.
FAQ
Questions teams usually ask before we start.
If you don’t see your situation here, that’s okay. Share context in your first email and we’ll be honest about fit.
ColibriCode is based in Denver, Colorado, USA. We work remote-first with clients across North America and Europe, keeping reliable overlap with your core hours and strong written communication.
START A PROJECT
Ready to build from scratch or modernize an existing platform?
Send a short brief with your context, current stack (if any), timeline, and what success looks like. We’ll reply with concrete next steps and a recommended first milestone—no sales scripts, just a clear plan.