We rescue troubled software projects

When your system is slow, your codebase is a mess, or your team is stuck, we get you unstuck.
Deep technical expertise. No hand-waving. Real fixes.

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What we fix

We specialize in diagnosing and fixing complex technical problems that keep your engineering team stuck. From performance bottlenecks to architectural debt, we've seen it before—and we know how to fix it.

🔍 Your website crashes during peak traffic

We've diagnosed Azure infrastructure with Redis caching that was misconfigured—thread pool settings caused requests to queue even though Redis responded in microseconds. After tuning, the system handled 5x the load.

🐛 Bugs deep in third-party libraries

We've tracked down race conditions three libraries deep in dependency chains. By adding defensive copying and thread-safety at library boundaries, we eliminated intermittent production failures.

🗄️ Database queries taking minutes

Nine times out of ten, it's not the database—it's missing indexes, bad join order, or N+1 queries. We've turned 2-3 minute queries into sub-100ms responses by rewriting query logic and adding strategic indexes.

⚙️ Legacy application servers causing pain

We've migrated complex JBoss clusters to lightweight Tomcat, cutting deployment times by 75%, memory footprint by 40%, and eliminating countless operational headaches.

🏗️ Over-engineered architectures

We work with your codebase first, then tell you the truth: Is your microservices architecture actually serving your scale, or just adding complexity? We show you what to simplify and how much you can save.

📚 Unmaintainable codebases

When nobody knows how the system works anymore, we do the archaeology—documenting behavior, adding characterization tests, and refactoring incrementally so you can move forward safely.

How we work

1. Diagnostic

We dive deep into your system to identify the root causes. No guessing—we gather data, analyze performance, and pinpoint exactly what's breaking.

2. Implement fixes

We write the code, optimize the queries, massage the architecture, or migrate the infrastructure. Real engineering work that solves the actual problem.

3. Stabilize & hand over

We ensure the fixes hold under load, document what we changed, and transfer knowledge to your team so they can maintain it going forward.

Our clients

What our clients say

While working with bitGloss I was pleasantly surprised by their good work ethics and by their ability to adapt and learn the complex process of the company. They are outcome focused and develop scalable and clean code that always has an eye towards the future.

Alexandru Merdan, Delivery Manager at Betfair Romania Development

Dan is a professional in the true sense of the word: in the way he gets to the need of a product or a product owner, in the clarity and simplicity of his technical solutions, in the way he communicates and approaches peers, in the way he inspires and develops talent around him.

Adina Pascalau, Team Lead at Fortech

We worked with Dan and his team for 4+ years. Always the epitome of professionalism, hard working, engaged and super strong colleagues. I would wholeheartedly recommend if you need deep software engineering capability.

Mike Nuttall, Chief Technology Officer at MyTutor.co.uk

About the company

Dan Nicolici - Founder of bitGloss
Dan Nicolici
Founder & Lead Developer
Why we specialize in rescue work

After spending over 20 years in the software industry, working across telecommunications, fintech, e-learning, and sports timing systems, I've seen the same patterns repeat: teams get stuck on hard technical problems that nobody really ever solves properly.

Most software companies avoid the difficult diagnostic work. They prefer greenfield projects where everything is new and clean. But the real value—and the real challenge—is in fixing what's broken. Finding that race condition three libraries deep. Diagnosing why your infrastructure falls over under load. Understanding why queries that should take milliseconds are taking minutes.

I founded bitGloss to do the work that most developers don't want to do: diving deep into complex systems, understanding how they actually work (not how they're supposed to work), and fixing them properly. No hand-waving. No architecture astronauts. Just deep technical work that gets your team unstuck.

Our products

We also build our own products