West Covina based. Built on international experience.
ZuluLab is the website brand of Zulu Alpha Inc., a business based in West Covina, California, serving greater Los Angeles. We bring together experienced developers with backgrounds in UK agency development, Java engineering, backend systems, and WordPress and CMS delivery.
We are based in West Covina, California, and collaborate across Eastern and Western time zones. Our rate is USD $30–$100/hr depending on the type of work, and the first conversation is free.
Three developers, each with a settled specialism. You deal with the people doing the work.
Backend Development, Data & nopCommerce
Our founder is a Microsoft Certified developer with 20 years of development experience. A UK graduate who has worked with UK agencies, he specialises in backend development, data handling and nopCommerce.
Java Development
Our technology lead brings more than 22 years of experience, with a strong focus on Java development. His professional background includes work in Singapore, and he is now based in Japan.
WordPress, PHP & CMS
Our president brings more than 15 years of experience in WordPress, PHP and CMS development, helping businesses build and maintain practical, content-driven websites.
These are the goals we work towards with clients. What any particular project achieves depends on the project, and we agree that with you up front rather than promising it here.
This is how an engagement runs. It is the shape of the work, not a fixed timetable — durations depend on scope and are agreed with you.
Deadline guarantee: Before work starts, we agree the deadline with you in writing. If we miss that deadline through our own fault, you don’t pay. To keep the deadline, you provide requirements and complete your testing and feedback on time.
Every project gets its own definition of done. Before the build starts we agree what the software has to do for you to consider it delivered, and that is what we test against. We do not publish success metrics for past projects, because those numbers belong to our clients and we have not asked permission to share them.
What acceptance criteria tend to look like in practice:
Based in West Covina, California, we collaborate across Eastern and Western time zones to coordinate development and client communication.
Teams in Eastern and Western time zones extend our working day, so work moves forward across more hours; we agree communication hours with you per project.
Network installation is physical work. Residential networking and home PC repair are delivered within roughly 40 miles of West Covina; business networking across the greater Los Angeles area. Websites, custom software, mobile apps and AI automation are delivered remotely to clients in the US, Canada, Europe and the UK. See where we cover.
We use AI-assisted tooling in day-to-day development — writing and refactoring code, generating test cases, and drafting documentation. It is a tool in the workflow, the way an IDE or a linter is.
Technical decisions, code review, testing and delivery remain the responsibility of the developer on the job. Nothing reaches your site or your users because a model produced it; it reaches them because one of us reviewed it, tested it and decided it was right. If something we ship is wrong, that is ours to answer for.
We do not claim this automatically makes a project cheaper or faster. Where it does save time, that shows up in the hours you are billed, because we bill for the hours the work actually takes.
Open them and judge the work directly.
Email us with what you’re building, or call and speak to the people who would do the work.
