Aphid Systems Corporation

Software engineering consultancy

Software for when
every millisecond counts.

Aphid Systems designs and builds high-performance, low-latency software for clients working in real-time 3D graphics, audio, high-speed networking, and spatial and artificial intelligence.

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Clients

Trusted by teams from stealth-mode startups to industry leaders in aerospace.

Client work is confidential and covered by NDA.

Capabilities

Specialist engineering where performance is the spec.

Performance & Latency

Profiling, optimization and architecture for systems where throughput and tail latency are requirements, not nice-to-haves. Cache-aware design, lock-free data paths, SIMD and GPU offload.

  • Profiling
  • Concurrency
  • SIMD

Distributed Systems & Networking

Systems that span many machines and still keep up with the wire: low-latency messaging, kernel-bypass and zero-copy I/O, RDMA and custom protocols, from the NIC to the cluster.

  • Distributed
  • RDMA
  • Kernel bypass

Graphics & GPU Compute

Getting everything out of the GPU, whether it's drawing pixels or crunching numbers: real-time rendering engines, shaders and visualization, compute kernels, and streaming large-scale 3D data on desktop, mobile and the web.

  • Rendering
  • GPU compute
  • Shaders

Audio & DSP

Real-time audio engines and signal processing with glitch-free, deadline-driven performance: noise suppression, effects, spatial audio and plug-in development.

  • DSP
  • Real-time audio
  • Plug-ins

Spatial & Applied AI

Machine learning that ships inside real products, including systems that perceive and reason about 3D space: model optimization, quantization, on-device and edge inference, and the fast data pipelines around them.

  • Spatial AI
  • Inference
  • Edge AI

Not sure where your problem fits?

If it needs to be faster, leaner or real-time, it's worth a conversation.

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Approach

Senior engineering, with a direct line.

Hard performance problems don't need a bigger team. They need the right expertise applied carefully, with clear communication throughout.

  1. You talk to the engineer

    The person scoping your project is the person writing the code. No hand-offs, no account managers, nothing lost in translation.

  2. Measure first

    Work starts with profiles, traces and benchmarks. Decisions are made on data, and results are reported in it.

  3. Built to hand over

    Clean, documented, tested code your team can own. Knowledge transfer is part of the deliverable.

  4. Discreet by default

    NDAs welcome. Client work and code stay confidential.

Engagements

Flexible ways to work together.

Fixed scope

Performance Audit

A focused review of an existing system. You receive a prioritized report of bottlenecks, measurements and concrete fixes, with optional implementation.

Milestone based

Project Delivery

Design and build of a component, prototype or complete system against clear goals, milestones and performance targets.

Ongoing

Specialist Retainer

Reserved engineering time for teams that need deep graphics, audio, AI or optimization expertise on call.

  1. 01

    Intro call

    Talk through the system, the goals and the constraints.

  2. 02

    Proposal

    Scope, approach, timeline and cost in writing.

  3. 03

    Build & measure

    Regular check-ins with demos and benchmarks.

  4. 04

    Handoff

    Code, documentation and a walkthrough.

Contact

Have a hard performance problem?

A few sentences about your system and what you need it to do is plenty to get started.

business@aphidsystems.com