ICE Felix
Engineering studio · Bucharest

Software, built by seniors. Amplified by AI. Operated 24/7.

Anyone can generate a demo now. Far fewer can own the judgment behind it — or keep it running in production at 3am. ICE Felix is senior engineers only: we ship your product, then we stay on to run and improve it — automated monitoring around the clock, a senior who actually answers. AI makes us faster; a senior signs off on every line that ships.

App Store + Google Play · Verified pub.dev publisher · Production AI on our own GPU
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Senior-only

Built by people who've shipped to the stores. Founder-led, no junior bench, no hand-offs.

02

AI as leverage

Senior judgment at AI speed — on our own GPU, not a cloud wrapper. We know where AI helps and where it must never be trusted. No slop.

03

Always-on

Automated 24/7 monitoring on owned infra. When something breaks, a senior responds — not a ticket queue. We operate your product, we don't abandon it.

04

Always evolving

A living roadmap: new capabilities and AI features as your product and the tech move forward.

8 products
built — mobile · hardware · AI · edu
2 stores
App Store + Google Play
~1,600
clinics mapped (UrgentPet)
pub.dev
verified publisher · 3 platforms
Owned GPU
on-prem AI · DGX Spark
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When anyone can generate code, judgment is the scarce resource.

AI made writing code cheap. It made writing the wrong code cheaper still. The bottleneck moved from typing to judgment — what to build, how it behaves under load, where AI can't be trusted. That's exactly what you can't buy from a junior bench or a prompt.

The 2026 reality

Generation is solved. Judgment isn't.

Generated demos are everywhere; generated production systems become someone's on-call incident. We build for the maintenance window, not the demo.

Our guarantee

A senior owns every decision

Every decision is made by someone who has shipped and operated production before. A senior owns the architecture, reviews every line AI helps write, and is accountable for what ships — and what keeps running.

02

AI in the loop — honestly.

Every agency says "AI" now. So here's the honest version — where it earns its place, where we refuse to trust it, and the owned infrastructure that proves it isn't a cloud wrapper.

In how we build

Senior speed, AI coverage

Senior engineers amplified by AI tooling — more test coverage, fewer bugs, faster iteration. Not vibe-coding: a senior reviews every line that ships.

In what we build

Real AI features

AI capabilities inside your product — with an on-prem option on our own GPU (DGX Spark) when your data can't leave the building.

In how we operate

24/7 AI monitoring

AI-assisted monitoring and triage running around the clock on owned infrastructure — issues caught and often fixed before you notice.

Credibility

We teach this, not just sell it

The founder runs the “Productive with AI” community and trains engineering teams on the same methods we build with. The practice comes before the pitch.

03

Capabilities.

The full stack, delivered by the same senior people — so the hard, cross-boundary work never falls through the gaps between vendors.

01

Product engineering

Flutter apps shipped to both stores, web apps, design-to-ship. From MVP to a product you operate.

FlutterDartiOS · AndroidWeb
02

Backend & cloud

Laravel and NestJS / Node APIs — payments, auth, integrations, real-time. Self-hosted or cloud: your choice, your data.

LaravelNestJS · NodePostgreSQLStripe
03

Data & AI

Production AI on owned GPU — on-prem LLM inference, RAG, ASR (Whisper), and autonomous AI agents (we built UrgentPet's ~1,600-clinic dataset with them). On-prem when data can't leave.

DGX / CUDAon-prem LLMRAGAI agentsWhisper
04

Hardware & embedded

Embedded systems end to end — custom PCB design and manufacturing, firmware, kiosks and totems. We design the electronics and write the software that runs on them.

PCB designPCB manufacturingFirmwareAndroid kioskRaspberry Pi
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Quality & delivery

CI/CD, automated testing, headless release to App Store / Play, and PCB fabrication. Shipped means shipped — not “code complete.”

CI/CDTestingFastlaneStore submission
06

Maintain & evolve

Automated 24/7 monitoring on owned infra, support with a defined response target, and a monthly innovation budget — the Care model.

MonitoringResponse targetOTARoadmap
04

Domains we've shipped in.

Domains where we've already shipped a real, verifiable product — not a wishlist of logos.

Consumer apps & marketplaces

Two-sided products, real-time dispatch, billing, push — built to hold up under real traffic.

→ UrgentPet · live on both stores

HoReCa & loyalty

Retention products: signed-QR loyalty, analytics, push campaigns, self-hosted.

→ Kafre · digital loyalty

Automotive & events

Interactive kiosks & totems that run unattended on a live show floor.

→ WLC Rent a Car · tbi Grand Auto Expo

Education & e-learning

Learning platforms and engineering education — co-founded and built.

→ Early Alpha Engineering · eaea.ro

Developer tooling

Native-API Flutter packages, published and maintained for the community.

→ pub.dev · verified publisher

Fintech & new domains

Senior judgment transfers — fintech and beyond. Bring us a domain we haven't shipped in yet; it can be next.

→ Book a discovery call
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Build. Operate. Evolve.

Most studios ship and disappear. We stay — one senior partner across the entire life of your product. Most clients begin with a single build, then keep us on to operate and grow it. Care is how the relationship continues, not how it begins.

Phase 01

Build

  • Discovery → hi-fi design you approve
  • Senior, AI-amplified delivery
  • Mobile · backend · hardware · AI
  • Store submission / fab — we finish
Phase 02 · recurring

Operate

  • Automated 24/7 monitoring on owned infra
  • Response target: same business day — a senior who knows your system, not a ticket queue
  • Proactive fixes, security & dependency upkeep
  • Crash-free & uptime watched, not assumed
ICE Felix Care · fixed monthly fee
Phase 03 · recurring

Evolve

  • A monthly innovation budget
  • New features & AI capabilities
  • Performance & UX improvements
  • Your product gets better while it runs
One partner, three phases — recurring care & innovation, not “shipped and gone.”
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Three ways to work with us.

Pick the commitment that fits where you are — and move up only once we've shipped together.

Project

Build Sprint

One product, fixed scope, fixed price. Senior, AI-amplified delivery — shipped to the stores or fab. The de-risked first engagement.

Fixed scopeFixed priceYou own the IP
Augment

Senior augmentation

Bring senior capacity onto your team — the founder plus a vetted bench of senior collaborators, in your stack and process. Mobile, backend or AI capacity without a hiring cycle.

Team augmentationSenior-onlyYour tooling
Recurring

ICE Felix Care

We operate and evolve what we built — automated 24/7 monitoring, a response target, and a monthly innovation budget. The natural next step once we've shipped together.

OperateEvolveMonthly
We engineer for production.Not for the demo. We engineer for production.Not for the demo.
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Proof — products we built and run.

Real, verifiable work — apps in the stores, hardware on event floors, AI on our own GPU. Click any one for the full story.

Tech & platforms we build on
FlutterDartLaravelPythonPostgreSQLNVIDIA DGX · CUDAAWS · HetznerStripeFirebase · FCMKiCadpub.dev publisherApple DeveloperGoogle Play
Alex BordeiFounder · Senior Full-Stack Developer · AI & Productivity
The studio
You talk to the person who builds it — and who teaches the AI methods we build with.
Senior full-stack developer and maker, building since 2013. 60+ conference talks (DevTalks, Codecamp, FlutterCon Berlin, WordCamp Europe), founder of Flutter Bucharest and the Claude Community Bucharest meetups, and co-founder of the Early Alpha Engineering academy. Runs ICE Felix's own infrastructure — including an NVIDIA DGX Spark for on-prem AI. Senior judgment + genuine AI depth + owned infra — the combination most agencies can't claim.
Senior full-stack · since 2013AI & productivity · speaker & trainerFlutter Bucharest · founderClaude Community · founderpub.dev publisherDGX Spark
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ICE Felix Care — we operate what we build.

Once we've built it together, we keep it alive and make it better. Three ways to keep us on. Founder-led capacity is limited — we take a few at a time.

Care · Watch

We keep it alive.

  • 24/7 monitoring on our owned GPU
  • Crash, uptime & security alerting
  • Dependency & patch upkeep
  • Response target: next business day
  • Monthly health report
Fixed monthly · scoped on the call
Care · Operate

We run it like it's ours.

  • Everything in Watch, plus —
  • Priority response target: same business day
  • Proactive fixes shipped, not just flagged
  • Release & store management
  • Small change requests included
  • Monthly working call
Our recommended tier
Care · Evolve

It gets better every month.

  • Everything in Operate, plus —
  • A monthly innovation budget (senior-days)
  • New features & real AI capabilities
  • Performance & UX work
  • Quarterly strategy session
by application · limited slots
Not sure which fits? That's the discovery call's job. See if Care fits →
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Talks & open source.

We'd rather show the work than mill content — real talks, a community we run, and code anyone can inspect.

Open source

icefelix.com on pub.dev

Verified publisher of native-API Flutter packages for Android, iOS and Linux — public, inspectable proof.

View on pub.dev →
Community

Productive with AI

The meetup the founder runs on getting real engineering leverage from AI — the same methods we build with.

Join the meetup →
Speaking

Conference & meetup talks

Dozens of talks — DevTalks, Codecamp, FlutterCon Berlin, WordCamp Europe — on shipping real products.

See talks →
Let's talk

Start with one build —
keep us as long as it's earning.

Senior-built, operated 24/7. Founder-led, no sales funnel — usually a reply within a day. We take a few projects at a time, so a 2-line brief helps us say yes fast.

You own the code & IP Leave any month — no lock-in Talk to the builder, not a funnel
Founder-led · usually a reply within a day · hello@icefelix.com · +40 721 114 056
Or send a brief right here
Two lines is enough — what you're building and where it's stuck. It lands straight in our inbox; usually a reply within a day.