About Broken by Design
We're Broken by Design — a software consulting firm that finds beauty in complexity and clarity in chaos.
We specialize in the infrastructure and developer experience work that makes or breaks modern engineering teams: cloud architecture, DevOps pipelines, and the tooling that helps developers move fast without breaking things (more than necessary).
But we have a second obsession: documents. Specifically, the surprisingly hard problem of generating them reliably. Whether it's producing pixel-perfect PDFs at scale, automating document workflows, or wrangling the edge cases that every PDF library seems to forget, we've built the expertise so you don't have to.
What We Do
- Document Generation & PDF Handling — Our product specialty. From templated report generation to complex, data-driven PDFs, we build robust, production-grade document pipelines.
- Cloud & DevOps — Infrastructure design, CI/CD pipelines, platform engineering, and cloud migrations that actually stick.
- Developer Experience — Internal tooling, developer portals, and the kind of thoughtful DX improvements that make your team's days less frustrating.
Why "Broken by Design"?
Because the systems you inherit are rarely clean. The specs are incomplete, the edge cases are everywhere, and the PDFs never render the same way twice. We named ourselves after that reality — and we built our practice around navigating it.
We don't pretend software is simple. We just know how to make it work anyway.
Based wherever the work is. Built for teams who care about doing it right.