Bespoke Research and Development

Simple things should be simple: complex things should be possible. (Alan Kay)

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Zoo-what?

Pronounced 'ZU-VAH-ZI', we are a bespoke Research and Development studio.
Simply put, we solve a wide variety of real-world problems using technology.
Our portfolio illustrates some of the areas we are active in but we thrive on new challenges.
And, yes, there is a story behind the name: think restrictive covenants and a big bag of Scrabble™ letters. It could've been worse!

Agile Project Execution

What we do is often risky and ill-defined. Agile lets us maximise flexibility within the project, yet also to spread cost and risk evenly across the project.

People Are Key

Technology is nothing without the right people with the experience to create it or to identify, implement, improve, and exploit it.

Codemill

We code from proof-of-concept to fully deployed systems-of-systems. And at any point in between. Hamsters are a speciality...

Looks Like Rain?

We love web-based applications. Either as is or as a frontend to more complex system constructs. Private, public, or hybrid: we've got you covered.

Building Blocks

Modularity and extensibility. Open interfaces, standard data formats and protocols, and clear APIs mean that our work is easily integrated.

See Clearly

We know that humans have to use our solutions. We make analytics easy, provide clear insight, and use intuitive, multi-perspective visualisations.

What others say about us

David [Xuvasi Founder and CTO] has the most remarkable knowledge of cutting-edge technology. His ability to make intellectual connections that others can't fathom and then deliver on them with hardware / software solutions is astounding. Need a brilliant solution to a unconquerable challenge? Engage David.

Ryan Jeffrey

Chief Technical Officer, Consultel IT&T

Cascade offers the capability to analyse a data set that is unfeasibly large for human processing but which is necessary for decision making. It is particularly effective in reducing the complexity of the analysis therefore reducing the training burden on our operators and analysts.

Area Lead

Dstl Cyber Situational Awareness

Working with Xuvasi proves Bill Joy's Law: Collaboration and open innovation are a good idea because not all the smart people work for you.

Business Continuity Manager

Fortune 500 Institution

David is an exceptional thinker. His skill, drive and insight across the whole of the ICT domain is truly world-class. I have known and worked with him for several years within large collaborative projects and always found his contribution to be crucial to success. If you want your big scary project to work, call David.

Robert Ghanea-Hercock

Chief Research Scientist

The most important thing in life is to always be yourself. Unless you can be Batman, in which case, always be Batman.

Batman

Caped Crusader

Portfolio

Since inception, we have conceived, proven, developed, and deployed numerous complex software solutions.
The following examples illustrate just some of our work to date.

Complex Interdependencies in Context.

CASCADE: a data-driven, user-definable software platform. A fusion of real-time, simulation, and event-driven systems for context and insight.

Map-backed Real-time Situational Awareness.

World Observer: locate, correlate, explore, and interact with thousands of assets and real-time events in a shared Common Operational Picture.

Guaranteed Computational Topologies.

Squall: rapidly reconfigurable, scalable graphs of computation with guaranteed end-to-end processing for system-of-systems pipelines.

Multi-lingual Mass Document Triage.

GIST: triage massive document sets, in 54 languages, and generate fully searchable, native language metadata to improve information management.

Subscribe to Global Change.

APOf: a multi-dimensional, all-source data substrate supporting dimension subscriptions that drive insight as the world changes around you.

Analytics Your Way.

minotaur: analyst-oriented information processing pipelines that break the tyranny of traditional, pre-defined analytical workflow systems.

Improving Data Resilience for SMEs.

Roost: intelligent information storage with granular security. Helping SMEs improve data management without the need for dedicated IT resources.

City-Scale Solutions.

Cyber-security. Smart Cities. Internet of Things. All this and much more integrated through open methods to realise the value of city-scale networks.

Calling all bright inquisitive folk!

Do you want to work at a small dynamic company in South Wales that is leveraging emerging technologies to provide dynamic bespoke solutions to real-world customer problems?

With our innovative solutions for interfacing smart buildings and making them geniuses, context engine workflow solutions for dynamic knowledge gathering and exploitation, Natural Language Processing pipeline, and secure data sharing and security capabilities; working for us means addressing ever-evolving challenges.

We’re fairly open in terms of our technology stack, but our solutions currently include:
Ruby (on Rails), Java, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, NodeJS, Graph structures, JSON, and GIS.

Don’t worry if you bring other skills as we’re open to leveraging new technologies suitable to each job at hand; plus we’re open to in-post development where appropriate.
If you are curious, questioning, self-motivated, and want to lead your own team within a year then we want to hear from you.

If any of our open positions sounds like something you'd be interested in then Send us your CV.

PS: We do not use recruiters so, if that's you, please do NOT bother to contact us.
If you do so, you will be blacklisted (and probably embarrassed - if such you can be - on social media).

Current Vacancies

Current vacancies have a key focus but, of course, successful candidates have scope to get involved in everything we do.

Key Focus: City-scale Simulator Program.

Find, integrate, and develop technologies capable of creating a 'virtual city' within which all aspects and layers of city life can be represented and simulated. Leverage our existing 'Cascade' capability to enable this web-based service under EU funding.

Key Focus: Secure Information Systems.

Research, implement, and evaluate components and systems for intelligent information storage with granular security. DHTs and blockchain technologies are of specific interest as are novel approaches to software-defined infrastructure and cloud.

Key Focus: Cyber Situational Awareness.

Take on and extend our existing 'Cascade' capability to address an ongoing research programme focused on the provision of Cyber Situational Awareness to UK MoD. Deep Java skills are a must for this role, with JRuby being an advantage.

Key Focus: Complement the Team.

Even if you do not fit into the specific vacancies we have, we would like to hear from you. Tell us who you are and what you might bring to the party: we are always on the look out for smart, capable people with great ideas to help us grow.

We look forward to hearing from you

Xuvasi Ltd
2 Alexandra Gate
Ffordd Pengam
Cardiff
CF24 2SA

email: info[@]xuvasi.com
telephone: +44 (0) 2920 448138

Registered Company Number: 07686676 (England and Wales)
VAT Registration Number: GB 127 0625 35
D-U-N-S Number: 21-733-9602