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The studio

A small studio
in Christchurch, with a big toolbox.

D3V Services Limited started life in 2013 as Oxygen Digital. Today we’re seven full-stack developers shipping web apps, websites and AI tools for businesses in New Zealand and a handful further afield.

Founded

2013, as Oxygen Digital. Renamed D3V Services Ltd. in 2024.

Headcount

Seven. Five full-stack engineers, two WordPress and frontend specialists.

Ownership

New Zealand-owned and operated. D3V Services Limited, registered in Christchurch.

How we work

Three habits that turned into a studio.

a.

Pick boring tech, on purpose.

Laravel, Livewire, Postgres, Tailwind, Cloudflare. We chose this stack a decade ago and keep choosing it because it’s still here, still fast, and still cheap to keep running.

b.

Stay small, stay honest.

No middle management, no “solution architects” who don’t touch the code. Seven people total, which means you talk to the actual builder, every time.

c.

Ship, then polish.

We get a working prototype on a real URL within two weeks of starting a project, then iterate weekly. Real systems beat Figma files every time.

The team

Seven people you’ll actually meet.

Project lead, dev, designer, QA, support. That’s not separate people, it’s usually one or two of us, depending on the day.

Founder, full-stack
Christchurch, NZ

Laravel and Livewire generalist with twelve years of muscle memory. Has shipped enough of these to spot the right path early, and is the most likely person on the team to send you an email at 11pm because they noticed something that would make your week easier.

Strategy lead Helps clients articulate what they are actually trying to build. Asks the questions that turn "we need an app" into a tight scope and a realistic timeline.
NZ
Full-stack engineer Backend-heavy with a sharp eye for CSS detail. Quietly owns most of the integrations work and writes the tests the rest of us are grateful for.
NZ
AI workflows lead Comfortable across half a dozen frameworks. Runs the retrieval and agents squad, and keeps our AI work honest: ships only where it saves real hours.
INA
WordPress and WooCommerce WordPress and WooCommerce specialist who builds for the team that has to live in the CMS, not for the developer leaving it. Editors love working with him.
PH
Frontend engineer Pixel-correct without being pedantic. Owns the design system and the parts of the site that make first impressions, and a quietly excellent CSS animator.
NZ
Studio mascot Best at standups, undefeated. Senior morale officer. Has somehow never missed a 9am.
NZ
Our stack

The tools we’ve been refining since 2013.

We try things, but we don’t chase frameworks for the sake of it. If we’re using something on your project, it’s because we’ve been using it on others for a long time.

LA Laravel
LI Livewire
P83 PHP 8.3
PO Postgres
MY MySQL
TA Tailwind
AJ Alpine.js
VI Vite
TY TypeScript
CL Cloudflare
AW AWS
FI Filament
IN Inertia
V3 Vue 3
NO Node
ST Stripe
XE Xero
ZE Zendesk
MA Mailgun
OP OpenAI
CL Claude
WH Whisper
CU Cursor
SE Sentry
GA GitHub Actions
Working together

We work best with teams
who like their builder to push back.

If you want a yes-agency, we’re not it. If you want someone who’ll occasionally tell you the feature you’re asking for is the wrong feature, we’re probably your studio.