Dan Volkov
Founder & Lead Engineer
10+ years building products people actually use. Former CTO shipping fintech and edtech platforms to over 100K users. I care about clean architecture, pixel-perfect UI, and shipping on time.
A London dev studio founded by an engineer who's shipped fintech apps, edtech platforms, and messaging products to hundreds of thousands of users.
We're a small, senior team that actually ships. No account managers, no handoffs to juniors — the people you talk to are the people writing the code. We obsess over clean architecture and pixel-perfect UI because your users will notice the difference.
Dan has taken products from zero to App Store, reaching over 100,000 users across fintech apps, edtech platforms, and messaging products. That experience is now behind every Cradle Labs build.
Services
Native iOS and cross-platform apps — Swift when performance matters, React Native when speed-to-market does.
Full-stack web platforms that handle real traffic. Next.js, SPAs, SSR — we pick the stack that fits your product, not the other way around.
Robust APIs and data pipelines. Observability from day one — structured logging, health checks, and alerts that page us before they page you.
We prototype in Figma to validate ideas fast. Clean interfaces informed by engineering constraints — because the best UI is one that actually gets built.
“A decade of shipping products at scale. We build awesome things.”
Cradle Labs — Founded on a decade of shipping at scale
Got an idea, a rough spec, or just a hunch? We'd love to talk it through over coffee (virtual or otherwise).
Get in touchProcess
60 minutes, no sales pitch. We'll tell you if your idea needs rethinking — honestly. You leave with a scope doc and a "build vs. buy" verdict.
Clickable Figma prototype, tested with real users. We prototype fast and cut ruthlessly — when building Holders.io, this stage eliminated features that would have doubled the timeline.
Two-week sprints, working software every Friday. No slide decks, no "it's almost done." If it doesn't run on your phone, we haven't shipped it.
We deploy, set up monitoring, and stay on retainer for month one. We've maintained production infrastructure at 99.99% uptime. Production reliability is muscle memory.
10+ years building products people actually use. Former CTO shipping fintech and edtech platforms to over 100K users. I care about clean architecture, pixel-perfect UI, and shipping on time.
Whether you have a project in mind or just want to explore what's possible, drop us a line. We'll get back to you within one business day.
Get in touch
Tell us about your project and we'll get back within a day.