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We’re a services company, not a product vendor. We don’t sell off-the-shelf software. Everything we build is custom, developed for and owned by you. Engagements are scoped around your requirements, your roadmap drives priorities, and the intellectual property we produce belongs to you. We operate as an external engineering arm, not a licensor.
We operate on Agile principles, which means you get regular sprint demos, written progress updates, and access to project management tooling throughout the engagement. You’re never waiting on a monthly report to find out where things stand. Our goal is to give you enough visibility to make informed decisions, without pulling you into day-to-day execution.
Both. You can engage us for a defined project scope with agreed deliverables, or bring on a dedicated team on an ongoing basis that integrates directly into your organization. The dedicated team model suits clients who need sustained development capacity, while fixed-scope engagements work well for well-defined products or specific build-outs with clear endpoints.
We’re a mid-sized private technology firm, which makes us a strong fit for startups scaling their engineering capacity and mid-market companies that need a capable external team without the overhead of building one in-house. Our team composition — developers, designers, QA engineers, DevOps, and product specialists — covers the full delivery stack, so you’re not stitching together multiple vendors.
We’re headquartered in Chisinau, Moldova, with a US office in Brooklyn, NY. The dual setup is deliberate. Our Moldova office is the engineering hub, while our US entity facilitates smoother commercial engagement with North American clients. Our primary client base is in Western Europe, the US, and the UK, and our teams are structured to operate across time zones without requiring clients to adjust their working hours significantly.
Learn more about XSoft and our approach to Software Development
Custom AI Solutions. From Data to Deployed Models
As AI becomes central to business, organizations need full control across the entire stack, from infrastructure and data to models, agents, and applications. We help you build, scale, and own.
Healthcare Solutions
Absolutely. Not every situation calls for a complete rebuild. XSoft provides strategic consulting and hands-on development support for modernizing legacy systems, whether that means migrating to the cloud, refactoring outdated codebases, improving performance, or adding new integrations. We assess your existing infrastructure first and recommend the most cost-effective path forward.
Yes. XSoft builds interoperability into every solution by design. Whether you use legacy hospital management software, third-party diagnostic tools, or external pharmacy systems, we ensure smooth data exchange and system connectivity, minimizing disruption to your existing operations.
Yes. XSoft integrates IoT devices into healthcare ecosystems to enable real-time patient monitoring, remote diagnostics, and proactive interventions. We handle everything from device connectivity and data transmission to secure storage and analytics dashboards, ensuring the full pipeline works reliably.
XSoft offers a variety of collaboration models to suit different client needs. Whether you prefer a fixed-price contract for a well-defined project, a dedicated team model for ongoing development, or a time-and-materials approach for evolving requirements, we adapt to your preferred way of working. Our goal is to make the partnership as seamless and predictable as possible.
Beyond regulatory compliance, XSoft implements multiple layers of security, including end-to-end encryption, role-based access controls, regular security audits, and penetration testing. Our development practices follow a security-first approach, meaning vulnerabilities are identified and addressed at every stage of the build.
E-commerce
Both! We specialize in fully custom e-commerce development tailored to your unique needs, and we also customize and integrate popular platforms like Shopify, Magento, BigCommerce, and WooCommerce, whichever approach fits your business best.
Simply reach out via our contact form or request a quote by sharing a few details about your project. We’ll respond with a personalized estimate tailored to your specific requirements.
Scalability is built into our development process from day one. We design and engineer e-commerce systems to handle increased traffic without compromising performance, so your store stays fast and reliable even during high-demand promotional events.
We integrate a wide range of secure, widely-used payment gateways, including Stripe and Skrill, ensuring smooth transactions and building customer trust throughout the purchasing process.
Mobile Applications
Yes, these are all capabilities we regularly implement for our clients. From real-time data synchronization and GPS-based features to in-app purchase flows and third-party payment gateway integration, we have hands-on experience building complex, feature-rich mobile applications across a wide range of industries.
We develop both native (Swift/Kotlin) and cross-platform (React Native, Flutter) applications. The right choice depends on factors like your target audience, performance requirements, and how much platform-specific functionality you need. During our initial discovery phase, we assess these factors together and recommend the architecture that delivers the best balance of performance, cost, and time to market for your specific project.
Security is embedded into every stage of our development process. We implement end-to-end encryption, secure authentication protocols, and role-based access controls as standard practice. For clients operating in regulated markets, we also ensure the app architecture and data handling practices are aligned with relevant compliance frameworks, including GDPR, giving both you and your users confidence that sensitive data is properly protected.
Post-launch support is a key part of our service. We offer structured maintenance plans that cover bug fixes, OS compatibility updates, performance monitoring, and feature enhancements as your business evolves. We don’t just hand off the finished product; we stay involved to make sure your app continues to perform reliably as mobile operating systems and user expectations change over time.
Fintech & Banking
We specialize in integration-first approaches; rebuilding from scratch is rarely the right answer. Our engineers have worked with legacy core banking systems (including mainframe-era architectures) and can build modern API layers, middleware, and microservices that sit on top of your existing infrastructure. This lets you ship new products to customers without touching the core, reducing downtime risk to near zero. A full migration roadmap is something we can plan in parallel, at your pace.
We engineer compliance in from day one, not as an afterthought. Our architecture decisions, tokenization of card data, encrypted data-at-rest, network segmentation, and audit logging are made with PCI DSS requirements as a hard constraint. We deliver systems that are audit-ready. What we don’t do is act as your Qualified Security Assessor (QSA). You’ll still need one for formal certification.
The 14-day figure refers to the time from contract signing to a fully onboarded senior engineering team writing production code for your project. It includes candidate selection from our pre-vetted bench, technical alignment sessions, environment setup, and access provisioning. It does not include your internal procurement or legal review cycles, so if you have a hard launch date, it’s worth starting the conversation before you’re ready to sign.
This is one of the most important questions to ask any AI vendor in lending. Regulators in the EU increasingly require that automated credit decisions be explainable to applicants. Black-box models don’t cut it under the GDPR’s right to explanation provisions. We build scoring models using interpretable approaches (gradient boosting with SHAP explanations, logistic regression hybrids) rather than opaque deep learning architectures, and we document decision logic in a format your compliance and legal teams can actually use in an audit.
Most nearshore agencies will take a fintech project and staff it with generalist developers who learn your domain on your budget. We maintain a dedicated fintech bench, developers who have shipped payment gateways, lending platforms, and compliance-regulated products before. They don’t need to be taught what a settlement cycle is, or why idempotency matters in payment processing. That domain fluency typically saves 4–8 weeks of ramp-up time on a standard engagement.
DevOps
Absolutely. Our DevOps as a Service is designed to scale according to your project needs. Whether you’re expanding your operations or require additional resources for a temporary surge in workload, our service can adjust dynamically. We manage scalability through advanced orchestration tools and infrastructure management practices that ensure your environment can handle increased loads efficiently.
Yes, XSoft is equipped to handle DevOps for all types of environments, including cloud, on-premises, and hybrid setups. We have experience with major cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, as well as on-premises and hybrid infrastructures, ensuring that our DevOps solutions are versatile and comprehensive.
Our DevOps service enhances your time-to-market by implementing efficient CI/CD pipelines that automate the building, testing, and deployment of your software. By reducing manual efforts and introducing consistent workflows, we help you achieve faster iterations and quicker releases, significantly cutting down the time from development to deployment.
Security is paramount in all our DevOps practices. We implement secure development life cycle methodologies that integrate security measures from the outset. Our tools and platforms are configured to comply with industry-standard security protocols, and we continuously monitor and audit our environments to detect and mitigate risks promptly. Additionally, we educate and train our teams in security best practices to safeguard your operations.
At XSoft, we integrate security directly into the DevOps pipeline—a practice often referred to as DevSecOps. We incorporate security audits, compliance checks, and vulnerability scans at each stage of development to ensure that security is a continuous focus, not an afterthought. We also use encrypted channels for deployment and enforce strict access controls to protect your data throughout the process.
Global Talent
Our engineers are expected to adapt to your tooling, not the other way around. During onboarding, they are integrated into your version control, CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD), and observability stack. They follow your branching strategies, code review processes, and release cadence, minimizing disruption and maintaining consistency across your engineering workflows.
We go beyond keyword-based matching. Each engagement starts with a deep technical brief covering architecture patterns (e.g., microservices vs monolith), scalability requirements, and existing constraints (cloud provider, CI/CD tooling, data layer). Candidates are filtered based on hands-on experience with similar system designs.
We prioritize documentation and system visibility from the start. Engineers contribute to internal docs, maintain clear commit histories, and follow structured handoff processes. When scaling down, we ensure proper knowledge transfer through recorded walkthroughs, updated documentation, and overlap periods if needed, so your team retains full operational continuity.
Vetting includes practical, scenario-based assessments rather than theoretical tests. For DevOps roles, this may involve designing CI/CD pipelines or debugging infrastructure issues. For AI/ML, candidates are evaluated on data pipeline design, model deployment, and production constraints (latency, scaling, monitoring). This ensures engineers can operate effectively in real production environments, not just in controlled test scenarios.
We enforce alignment through shared engineering standards, regular architecture reviews, and optional technical leadership (for extended teams). Engineers adhere to your coding guidelines, testing strategies, and documentation practices. For larger engagements, we introduce structured checkpoints, design reviews, PR audits, and performance benchmarks to ensure long-term maintainability and consistency.
AI & DATA INTELLIGENCE
We don’t assume one approach fits all. Foundation models (like LLMs) are leveraged where they provide strong baseline capabilities, but we layer domain-specific fine-tuning, retrieval systems (RAG), or even fully custom models when necessary. The decision is driven by data sensitivity, performance requirements, latency constraints, and cost, not by vendor preference or trends.
Integration is treated as a core engineering problem, not an afterthought. We design API-first architectures with clear contracts, ensuring compatibility with ERP, CRM, and internal tools. Where necessary, we use middleware layers or event-driven architectures to decouple AI components from legacy systems, minimizing risk while allowing incremental adoption instead of large, disruptive migrations.
We implement continuous evaluation pipelines that monitor model performance against real-world data, not just static benchmarks. This includes drift detection, automated retraining triggers, and human-in-the-loop validation where needed. The goal is to prevent silent degradation, a common failure point in production AI systems, by maintaining alignment between model outputs and evolving business conditions.
Common risks include underestimating the complexity of data preparation, a lack of reproducibility in training pipelines, and fragile deployment setups that fail at scale. We address these by designing structured data pipelines (ETL + feature stores), enforcing MLOps best practices (versioning, CI/CD, monitoring), and stress-testing systems under realistic workloads before production rollout.
Full ownership extends beyond trained models. It includes the underlying datasets (where applicable), feature engineering logic, training pipelines, model weights, and deployment infrastructure configurations. You retain the ability to modify, retrain, or migrate everything without dependency on proprietary platforms or licensing constraints—something many AI vendors do not offer by default.
Cloud & DevSecOps
Audit readiness is achieved through automated compliance gates and immutable audit trails. Every pipeline action—code changes, approvals, deployments—is logged with cryptographic integrity and tied to identity and policy context. Instead of manual approvals, policy-based controls enforce compliance automatically, allowing pipelines to remain fully automated while still satisfying audit requirements.
We use a layered scanning strategy with parallel execution and context-aware policies. Lightweight SAST and dependency checks run early in the pipeline (“fail fast”), while deeper scans (DAST, container, infra) run asynchronously or at later stages with risk-based gating. Caching, incremental scans, and severity thresholds ensure that only meaningful issues block deployments, avoiding unnecessary pipeline latency.
Policy enforcement is centralized using engines like OPA or Sentinel, integrated directly into CI/CD workflows and infrastructure provisioning (e.g., Terraform). Policies are version-controlled, tested, and applied at multiple control points—commit, build, and deploy—ensuring consistent enforcement regardless of environment. Kubernetes admission controllers further enforce runtime compliance before workloads are scheduled.
Runtime telemetry from logs, metrics, and traces is aggregated into centralized SIEM or observability platforms. Detection rules are aligned with deployment context (e.g., new release, config change) to reduce false positives. Alerts are automatically mapped to incident response playbooks, enabling rapid containment actions such as rollback via GitOps or policy enforcement updates directly from the CI/CD system.
Secrets are dynamically injected at runtime using tools like HashiCorp Vault or cloud-native secret managers, never stored in code or CI variables in plaintext. We use short-lived credentials, OIDC-based workload identity, and strict access policies to eliminate static secrets. Additionally, secret scanning is enforced in repositories to detect accidental leaks before they propagate.
Logistics & FMCG
Yes, and this is common in FMCG environments. Our forecasting models are built to handle sparse datasets by combining available internal sales data with external signals such as seasonality indices, promotional calendars, and market trends. We use ensemble ML methods that degrade gracefully with limited data rather than producing unreliable outputs, and the models improve continuously as more data flows in.
We begin every engagement with a legacy dependency mapping phase before any code is written. Our engineers assess your current system landscape — whether that’s SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, or a custom-built WMS — and design the integration layer around your live operational constraints. We use API abstraction and event-driven architecture to ensure new modules connect without requiring system-wide cutover or downtime.
Our retail execution platforms are built offline-first. Field reps can complete audits, capture photos, and submit visit reports without an active connection. Data is queued locally on the device and synced automatically once connectivity is restored, with conflict resolution logic handling cases where central data has changed in the interim. This is especially relevant for field teams operating in rural or large-format retail environments.
Our logistics bench is pre-trained in the operational concepts specific to this industry — 3PL coordination, carrier API structures, EDI transaction sets (EDIFACT/ANSI X12), SKU and UOM hierarchies, and lead time variability management. This means the onboarding curve is significantly shorter than with a generalist team. In practice, we aim for a fully embedded, productive delivery cycle within two weeks of engagement start.
