Software that works.
Systems that last.
Custom software, backend systems, and SaaS products built for companies that need their technology to be reliable, maintainable, and fit for purpose. Not just shipped.
Three practice areas.
All done directly.
Not a broad agency. Focused on the areas where depth and hands-on experience make the most difference.
Custom Software Development
Purpose-built systems for operational workflows, internal tools, and business-critical processes. Full lifecycle: architecture, implementation, testing, delivery, and clean handover.
Technical Consultancy
Architecture reviews, technology strategy, discovery for new products, and senior guidance through complex technical decisions. Practical advice you can act on. Not slide decks. Also available as fractional technical leadership.
Industrial Protocol Stacks
Serial, Modbus, TCP sockets, PLC register access: the low-level plumbing that keeps machines and software in sync. Built across machine control, production supervision, and multi-device coordination.
Alongside the three core areas, work where the hands-on experience runs just as deep.
WMS & ERP Integration
Connecting warehouse management systems to heterogeneous ERPs across vendors, formats, and data transports. Files, databases, REST APIs. Enterprise systems rarely speak the same language, and that gap is usually where projects get stuck.
SaaS Product Development
From validated idea to deployed, maintained product. Designed and engineered with attention to commercial viability, technical soundness, and architecture that supports growth rather than blocking it.
Hardware & Device Integration
Scales, labelers, barcode readers, voice picking systems: wiring physical peripherals into the software workflows that actually use them, end to end.
16+ years of engineering,
directly applied.
I'm Alberto Actis Dana, a software engineer and architect based in Italy. I've spent 16+ years building software across industrial systems, distributed backends, logistics, fintech, machine control, and enterprise integrations.
I've worked as an individual contributor, tech lead, and engineering manager, so I understand both the hands-on complexity of writing software and the organisational challenge of delivering it. When you work with bytesquash, you work directly with me.
Got a software challenge
worth talking through?
Tell me what you're building, what's broken, or what you're trying to figure out. I'll give you an honest read, not a sales pitch.