Busy Beaver Software

Busy Beaver Software is an independent engineering consultancy that helps product companies build new software and keep mature code moving. A senior engineer leads each engagement and writes the code personally, calling in a small group of other developers when a project needs extra capacity, so clients are not dealing with a large agency.

What Busy Beaver Software offers

• Legacy modernisation — step-by-step refactoring of difficult areas in long-lived codebases, easing build and release pain while the product stays in use.
• Complex feature and new product work — architecture choices and first versions where requirements are unclear or the code is performance-sensitive.
• Windows and cross-platform desktop applications — native work in Modern C++ and WinAPI covering UI behaviour, installers, licensing and crash handling.
• Backend services — licensing, DRM, crash reporting, support workflows and online processing that commercial software depends on.
• Code audits — reviews of existing C and C++ code for quality, architecture and security weaknesses.

Who it works with

It serves product companies, including those with graphics-heavy or image-processing software. Published work includes taking over and modernising Scan2CAD, a long-running commercial C++ desktop application, alongside a human presence detection platform and an interactive streaming platform.

Key facts

• Technologies: Modern C++, WinAPI, wxWidgets, OpenGL, OpenCV, Qt and Electron
• Specialist areas: image processing, 3D graphics, CAD, DRM and Windows driver software