SERVICESPRODUCT + ENGINEERING STUDIO

Senior engineering,
without the overhead.

Lemonberry Labs is a small studio of highly experienced engineers and product people, led by founder Ran Magen. We build software, automate business workflows with AI, and coach engineers. Senior people do the work, start to finish.

ran@lemonberrylabs.com
WRITING AND RUNNING PRODUCTION SOFTWARE
25+ years
FOUNDED OR CO-FOUNDED: LEMONBERRY LABS AND ALTYS
2 companies
THE SCALE WE HAVE BUILT PRODUCTION SYSTEMS FOR
100M+ users
DESIGNED, BUILT AND RUN BY THIS STUDIO
6 products
01 / WHAT WE DOTHREE SERVICES. ONE SENIOR TEAM.

Build it. Automate it.
Grow the people.

Each service draws on the same 25 years of building production systems and leading the engineers who run them.

01 / SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Software development

Your product, built end to end.

Backend systems, cloud infrastructure, web front ends, AI integrations, Mac apps and mobile apps, designed and built by a small senior team.

See how projects work
02 / AI WORKFLOWS & AUTOMATION

AI workflows & automation

The repetitive work, done for you.

AI workflows that sort, extract, draft and file, connected to the tools you already use. A person approves what needs judgment, and every run is logged.

See what can be automated
03 / COACHING

Coaching

For engineers and the people who lead them.

Interview preparation for senior, staff and principal roles, and technical leadership coaching, from people who have held those roles and made those hiring decisions.

See how coaching works
02 / WHO LEADS THE WORK RAN MAGEN · FOUNDER

Where the
experience comes from.

I’m Ran Magen, the founder, and I lead every project we take on. I spent 25 years on the systems other engineers build on, at companies where a mistake reaches millions of people, and I hold our work to that standard.

Altys

CO-FOUNDER

An AI learning app for kids. I run the technical side of the company: the Go backend, the cloud infrastructure, and how we ship.

Lemonberry Labs

FOUNDER & CEO

I build, launch and support products with paying customers, Lemonvite among them, and I lead every client project. It taught me what engineering work a business needs.

Coinbase

TECH LEAD, BACKEND PRODUCTIVITY

I was the technical lead for backend engineering productivity. I led the migration to GraphQL Federation, set Protobuf standards across more than 700 repositories, and founded the Server Foundations Guild.

Apollo GraphQL

ENGINEER, FEDERATION & INFRASTRUCTURE

I worked on backend infrastructure and Federation, and wrote the next-generation Federation gateway in Rust.

Amazon Web Services

ENGINEER, MEDIACONNECT

I built AWS Elemental MediaConnect, a live video transport service, from its first line of code.

Twitter

TECH LEAD, TIMELINES INFRASTRUCTURE

I was the tech lead for Timelines infrastructure: Home, Profile and Notifications. I owned tweet fanout, the system that writes each new tweet into its followers’ timelines, for hundreds of millions of users.

Startups

ENGINEER

I built distributed systems at Dapper (acquired by Yahoo), my6sense, and Worklight (acquired by IBM), after eight years building for the web.

More about the studio
03 / HOW WE WORKTHE SAME FOR EVERY ENGAGEMENT.

Small studio.
Clear terms.

Three things you can count on, whichever service you need.

01 /

Senior people do the work.

There is no account manager and no junior team behind the pitch. The people on the first call are the people who build.

A SMALL SENIOR TEAM
02 /

You see progress every week.

Working software, a running workflow, or written feedback. You never wait a month to find out how it is going.

SHORT FEEDBACK LOOPS
03 /

You know the price first.

Every engagement starts with a written proposal: scope, milestones and price, in a document you can share.

WRITTEN PROPOSALS
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04 / NEXT STEP

Tell us what
you need.

A paragraph is enough to start. A senior engineer reads every message.
Or write to ran@lemonberrylabs.com.