Product Engineering Studio · Timișoara, EU

Software with the finish of couture.

ABAR Service is an EU-based product engineering studio. Since 2015 we have designed and built the platforms behind ambitious European companies — with the rigour of engineers and the eye of a design house.

Scroll — selected work below Est. 2015 · 40+ engineers · 120+ projects Calea Lugojului 34, Giroda

Trusted by discerning teams across twelve countries

The Studio

We are not an outsourcing shop. We are a forty-person atelier of engineers, designers and architects in Timișoara who believe enterprise software deserves the same obsessive craft as a Milanese tailor gives a suit — measured twice, cut once, finished by hand, built to last a decade.

What we practise

Six disciplines, one standard.

Every engagement is led by a principal engineer and a design director. Nothing ships without both signatures.

  1. ( 01 )

    Custom Software Development

    Ground-up systems for problems off-the-shelf software cannot touch: trading engines, underwriting platforms, industrial control panels. Architected for a ten-year life.

    Domain-drivenEvent sourcing99.99% SLAs
  2. ( 02 )

    Web Platforms & SaaS

    Multi-tenant SaaS from first commit to first thousand customers — billing, roles, audit trails, white-labelling — engineered so your margins survive scale.

    Multi-tenantUsage billingSSO / SCIM
  3. ( 03 )

    E-commerce Engineering

    Headless storefronts and replatformings for brands where conversion is measured in millions. Sub-second pages, six-market catalogues, zero-downtime cutovers.

    HeadlessCore Web VitalsPIM / ERP
  4. ( 04 )

    Cloud & DevOps

    Kubernetes estates, infrastructure as code, observability that answers questions before they are asked. We have cut client cloud bills by 40% while doubling traffic.

    KubernetesTerraformFinOps
  5. ( 05 )

    AI Integration & Automation

    LLM-powered document pipelines, retrieval systems and decision support — deployed inside your compliance boundary, evaluated like any other production system.

    RAG pipelinesEvalsOn-prem LLMs
  6. ( 06 )

    UI/UX Design

    Research, product design and design systems from our in-house studio. Interfaces your operators can use for eight hours without fatigue — and your board will show off.

    Design systemsResearchPrototyping

Selected work

Three engagements, told honestly.

Names shown with permission. Numbers audited by the clients' own analytics teams — we publish nothing we cannot defend.

Case 01Fintech · Frankfurt

NordBank Kapital — real-time treasury & risk platform

A German private bank replaced overnight batch reporting with a live risk dashboard used by 300 traders and auditors. Event-sourced core, BaFin-ready audit trail, first release in 14 weeks.

3M+daily requests
184msp95 latency
99.99%uptime, 3 years
Case 02Logistics SaaS · Zürich

Helvetia Cargo — fleet orchestration for 2,400 vehicles

We built the routing and dispatch SaaS a Swiss freight operator now licenses to its own partners. A constraint-solver core plans 11,000 daily stops and re-plans in under two seconds when a truck breaks down.

−31%empty kilometres
2,400vehicles orchestrated
1.8sfull re-plan
Case 03E-commerce · Paris

Maison Claire — headless replatforming in six markets

A Parisian fashion house moved off a decade-old monolith without losing a single order. Headless storefront, 40,000-SKU catalogue, zero-downtime cutover on a Tuesday morning nobody noticed.

+38%conversion rate
0.9smedian LCP
6markets, one stack

Your project, the fourth case.

We take on a maximum of eight engagements per year. Two seats remain for 2026.

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Methodology

Four movements, no improvisation.

A fixed cadence refined over 120 projects. You always know what happens next, what it costs, and who is accountable.

  1. DiscoverWeeks 1–2 · Fixed fee

    Principal-led workshops with your operators, not just your executives. We map the domain, interrogate the data, and leave with a written thesis of what the system must do — and what it must refuse to do.

  2. DesignWeeks 3–5 · Architecture + UI

    Architecture decision records, threat model, clickable prototype and a costed delivery plan. You could take this dossier to any other studio — clients never do, but the option keeps us honest.

  3. BuildWeeks 6–18 · Shipping weekly

    A dedicated senior team ships to a production-grade staging environment every Friday. Demos are live software, never slides. Code review, tests and observability are not line items — they are the work.

  4. Run & EvolveOngoing · SLA-backed

    We operate what we build: 24/7 monitoring, quarterly architecture reviews, and a standing roadmap. Or we hand it to your team with documentation they will actually read — your choice, contractually.

The instruments

A deliberately boring stack.

We choose technology the way a tailor chooses cloth: proven, maintainable, appropriate. Novelty is for our lab, not your production.

Languages

TypeScriptPythonPHPGoSQL

Frontend

ReactNext.jsVueDesign tokensWebGL

Backend

Node.jsLaravelNestJSgRPCEvent sourcing

Data

PostgreSQLRedisClickHouseKafkaOpenSearch

Cloud & Operations

AWSKubernetesTerraformDockerGrafanaGitHub Actions

AI & Automation

LLM integrationRAG / pgvectorEvals & guardrailsOCR pipelinesOn-prem inference

The studio in numbers

0Founded in Timișoara
0+Engineers & designers
0+Projects delivered
0Client countries
“Quiet numbers, loudly audited.” Retention: 87% of clients return with a second project · Zero security incidents since founding

In their words

Spoken by the people who pay the invoices.

ABAR think like owners. They argued us out of features twice — and both times the roadmap was better for it. In eleven years of vendor management I have never written that sentence before.
Dr. Markus EhrlichChief Technology Officer, NordBank Kapital — Frankfurt
The replatforming was scheduled like a couture fitting: precise, unhurried, flawless on the day. We migrated six markets and our customers noticed nothing except that everything was suddenly faster.
Amélie RousseauDigital Director, Maison Claire — Paris
Three vendors told us real-time re-planning for 2,400 vehicles was impossible at our budget. ABAR shipped it in a season and now we sell it to our competitors.
Jonas WidmerChief Executive, Helvetia Cargo — Zürich

Commissions · 2026

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