Bucharest, Romania · Building since 2016
Software for the systems people rely on.
Protocore is a software engineering company based in Bucharest. We design, build and operate web and mobile apps, back-office platforms, integrations, applied AI and blockchain systems, and the devices they run on, for public institutions, regulated companies and product teams.
Where our people have worked: IBM, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Adobe, BMW, Thales, Revolut, Bitdefender and others.
Engineering for every layer of a product. Bring us one capability or the whole system, designed, built and operated by one team.
APIs and integrations that connect what you already run
Applied AI: LLM applications, retrieval and ML pipelines that ship to production, not demos
Cloud and DevOps, instrumented from day one
Legacy systems, moved without losing a record
Smart contracts, wallets and tokenization, audited, gas-aware and built to last
Custom electronics, firmware and the cloud behind them
One design system under everything we ship
Digital services for public institutions. Software an institution can answer for: every request registered, every deadline tracked, every act signed, every record kept.
Citizen portals with national e-ID sign-in and request tracking
Electronic registry with numbering, routing and a deadline on every case
Qualified e-signatures and seals, signed with the officials' own certificates
Electronic archive in PDF/A with qualified timestamps and retention schedules
Industries we build for. Nine industries, one standard: production code that is instrumented, tested and operated long after launch.
Public sector
Citizen portals, electronic registries, and qualified e-signatures with the auditability and resilience that public institutions demand.
Manufacturing
Sensor networks, edge gateways, and monitoring that surface OEE and downtime before they reach the P&L.
Fintech & banking
Payment rails, tokenized ledgers, and KYC flows — audited, PCI-aware, and built to pass the compliance review.
Retail & hospitality
Self-service kiosks, loyalty, and POS integrations that keep queues moving and tills reconciled across every location.
Healthcare
Connected devices and data pipelines built to the documentation and compliance bar that healthcare requires.
Energy & utilities
Metering, telemetry, and control systems engineered for the field — remote, rugged, and always reporting.
Transport & logistics
Document intelligence, asset tracking, and automation that turn paper-bound operations into instrumented, measurable flows.
Events & venues
Cashless wristbands, access control, and real-time settlement for festivals, stadiums, and arenas — built to clear at peak and tolerate a dropped network.
Gaming & esports
In-event wallets, payments, and anti-fraud for live tournaments and venues where every second of downtime is visible.
In production since 2016.
120+
Projects shipped
40M+
Transactions through systems we built
9
Industries served
24/7
Systems operated around the clock
How we work
From problem to operated system
- 01
Discover
We map the problem, constraints, and the smallest valuable slice to ship first.
- 02
Design
Architecture, interfaces, and a build plan your team can ship and operate.
- 03
Build
Production code in tight increments, instrumented and tested from day one.
- 04
Operate
We measure, harden and expand in production, then run it with you or hand over a system your team can own.
A small, senior team, remote-first across the EU with its hub in Bucharest. The people who design your architecture are the ones who write the code. Hosted in the EU, in AWS Frankfurt, with GDPR-aligned data handling, least-privilege access and an audit trail of every privileged action. How we handle security
Built as products. Thirteen products on one core, from a whitelabel banking app to the design system, licensed to banks, payment companies, merchants and product teams. Our clients run their services on it.
Flagship
Protocore Pay
A whitelabel banking app platform: one core, one app layer, shaped into any product you can imagine.
Explore PayOperations
Protocore Center
The operator console: customer 360s, ops queues, and every privileged action reason-required and audited.
Explore CenterDesign system
Protocore Design System
Token-driven, dark-first, in production on every product we build, and licensed to product teams.
Explore the design systemHave a system to build?
Tell us the problem. We'll come back with an architecture and a plan.