Australian companies come to DavinLabs when hiring locally has become the bottleneck. We are a Colombo-based engineering firm with a working day that already overlaps yours, so you get senior developers on your standups, not overnight handoffs and a 24-hour question latency.
You work with the same named engineers every sprint. No rotating bench, no junior swapped in after the pitch, no account manager between you and the people writing the code.
A senior full-stack developer in Sydney runs well past AUD 160k plus super, recruitment, and desk. Our rates land a fraction of that — which usually buys an Australian startup two to three times the runway per feature shipped.
Roughly four hours of live overlap with AEST every working day. Standups, code review, and production incidents get handled inside your business hours, not after them.
Documentation, UI copy, and client-facing text in Australian spelling and conventions. Dates as DD/MM/YYYY, AUD formatting, ABN and GST fields where your forms need them.
Colombo is UTC+5:30. Sydney is UTC+10 (UTC+11 in daylight saving). That is a 4.5 to 5.5 hour difference — small enough that our engineers start their day while your morning is still running, and we hold the overlap window open for standups, pairing, and incident response.
| Your time | Colombo | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM AEDT | 3:30 AM | Your team starts |
| 1:30 PM AEDT | 8:00 AM | Our team starts — full overlap begins |
| 5:30 PM AEDT | 12:00 PM | Your day ends, handover complete |
| 10:30 PM AEDT | 5:00 PM | Our day ends |
We build to the APPs under the Privacy Act 1988, including the notifiable data breaches scheme. Data handling, retention, and breach-notification paths are designed in, not bolted on.
Where your obligations require it, we deploy into ap-southeast-2 (Sydney) on AWS, Australia East on Azure, or australia-southeast1 on Google Cloud, so customer data never leaves the country.
Fixed-scope statements of work, clear IP assignment, mutual NDAs, and named-engineer commitments. You own the code and the repositories from the first commit.
About four hours of live overlap every working day. Our engineers work 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Colombo time, which is 1:30 PM to 10:30 PM AEDT. Your morning is our overnight, so work you hand over at 5:30 PM lands finished the next morning — and your afternoon is our live collaboration window for standups, reviews, and incidents.
Yes. We deploy to Australian cloud regions — AWS ap-southeast-2, Azure Australia East, or Google Cloud australia-southeast1 — when data residency is a requirement. Our engineers access those environments through audited, least-privilege accounts, and we can scope access so production data is never copied offshore.
A senior full-stack hire in Sydney typically costs upwards of AUD 160,000 in salary before superannuation, recruitment fees, and overhead. Our engagements start at AUD 399 per month for smaller builds and scale with scope. Most clients see total delivery cost land well under half of an equivalent local team.
You do, unconditionally. IP assignment is written into every statement of work, and code lives in repositories you own from the first commit. There is no lock-in, no proprietary framework you have to license, and no handover fee if you take the work in-house later.
Yes. We quote and invoice in AUD for Australian clients, so there is no currency conversion on your side and no exchange-rate surprise between quote and invoice.
Tell us what you are building. We will come back with a scope, a timeline, and a fixed quote in AUD — usually within one business day.
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