Software development in Baja California.
Dallio is a software development company on the Baja California coast. We build custom web and mobile apps, AI features, and automations for companies across the state — and for teams on the California side of the border.
A development team in the CaliBaja region.
Baja California is the Mexican state that touches California — Tijuana and Mexicali sit right on the border, and Ensenada, where our studio is, sits on the Pacific coast about two hours south of San Diego. The cross-border economy here has a name, CaliBaja, and software is a growing part of it.
The practical consequence for anyone hiring developers: the entire state runs on Pacific Time and observes daylight saving on the same dates as the United States. A team in Baja California is never an hour off from Los Angeles or San Diego — not in summer, not in winter.
The talent pipeline is real, too. UABC has campuses in Mexicali, Tijuana, and Ensenada; CETYS spans the same three cities; and research centers like CICESE have anchored engineering in the region for decades. That is why app development in Baja California has quietly become a nearshore alternative to hiring overseas.
We wrote a closer look at our home base on the software development in Ensenada page — this page is about working with us from anywhere in the region, or from across the border.
What we build.
Custom software
Platforms and internal tools designed around your operation — the software adapts to the business, not the other way around.
Web applications
Dashboards, portals, storefronts, and SaaS products that stay fast and stable when real users show up.
Mobile apps
Native-quality iOS and Android apps, shipped to both stores, sharing one backend with your web product.
AI features and agents
Assistants, agents, semantic search, and document processing wired into your product — production systems, not demos.
Automation
The spreadsheet-and-retyping layer of your operation replaced with integrations and code.
Cloud on Google Cloud
As an official Google Cloud Partner we architect, migrate, and operate production workloads end to end.
Nearshore that acts like next door.
Most nearshore pitches are about billing rates. Ours is about logistics: when your development team is in Baja California, the working day overlaps completely, a standup at 9 a.m. in San Francisco is 9 a.m. here, and if you want to whiteboard in person, San Diego to our studio is a morning drive down the coast. Contracts, invoicing, and communication all happen in English.
And unlike a staffing agency, we do not rent out headcount. We take responsibility for the build itself — architecture, code, infrastructure, and delivery — and we stay accountable for whether it works after launch. We go deeper on that model on the nearshore software development page, and on the country as a whole on software development in Mexico.
Work we've shipped.
Recent builds across SaaS, mobile, hospitality, and operations — each one a real product in production.
Common questions.
Where in Baja California is Dallio located?
Our studio is in Ensenada, on the Pacific coast about two hours south of San Diego. We work with companies across the state — Tijuana, Mexicali, Rosarito, Tecate — and across the border in California.
Do you work as a nearshore team for US companies?
Yes. Baja California shares its border and its clock with California — the whole state runs on Pacific Time and observes daylight saving on the same dates as the United States. We work in English, and a kickoff in San Diego is a drive, not a flight.
What does Dallio build?
Custom web applications, iOS and Android apps, internal platforms, AI features such as assistants, agents and document processing, process automations, and the Google Cloud infrastructure to run it all in production.
Can you take over an existing codebase?
Yes. We audit the code and infrastructure first, tell you plainly what state it is in, and then either stabilize and extend it or propose a migration path — whichever the audit actually supports.
How do we start a project with you?
Email us what you are building. We map the problem and constraints together, propose an architecture and scope, and start shipping in short iterations so you see working software early.
Got a project? Let's talk.
Tell us what you're building. We'll tell you if we can help.
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